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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sean, it's good to speak with you again, my man.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Man, I have missed you. It's it's been an adventure,
you know, you know, but we're glad you're back.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm glad to be back. I will say this, Sean.
I'm still paying very close attention to the Huskers. That
Illinois game. We didn't get a chance to talk to
you too much about it. Obviously, a pretty painful way
to lose after a three and zero start, but a
solid bounce back against Purdue to be expected with the
team that's kind of in the middle of a rebuild.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Defense looked awesome again.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What was kind of your takeaway about the way that
things kind of played out over the course of those
sixty minutes in West Lafayette.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You know, it was a zero zero half and it
was ugly, but you knew Nebraska was in still pretty
good shape. I mean, their defense had been playing lights
out and their offense didn't pun in the first half,
and they moved the ball. I mean, they really didn't
have to pun, and they moved the ball six times
across the forty and I guess they did pun, but
it was you know, they were trying to pin them
to their in no man plan, but they had great
(00:58):
success early. They were having trouble penalties, they're having trouble
a third downs, obviously, they're having trouble snapping and kicking.
They got all those things ironed out and they were
down three nothing in the third quarter, and I thought
that was a key moment. They answered, Ryola fines Jamal
Banks for the touchdown to put them up at that point,
and they never looked back. They get a stop, they
(01:19):
get a score, they get to stop, they get a score,
and John Bullet gets to pick six. It's twenty eight
to three, so they really did respond well. It was
a still an al bider. I mean, a fourth down
touchdown run by Dante Daldell was kind of a key
moment too in that game. The penalties, though, I've never
seen a game like that. I mean, there was you know,
(01:40):
you know, two hundred and fifty yards of penalties in
that game, and Nebraska got eight first downs from penalties
by Purdue, which was the most ever in a Hoscar
game in history. I went through the record books last
night and that's the record they keep. The previous record
was six six first downs by penalties, so they the
stats are even mislead for Nebraska because they had a
(02:01):
lot of yardage wiped away because of penalty. And you know,
they still put up over four hundred yards, but that
could have easily been a five hundred fift yr day
if not for some of the penalties that kind of
affected the final yardage numbers for the Huskers.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, and I got to tell you we're speaking of
Sean Cally and for Husker buzz here. The lack of
scoring when you get into inside like the opponent's thirty.
You know, we talked about like horrible turnovers last year
just kind of killed a lot of good drives. Didn't
really have a lot of that. The first month of
(02:37):
the season that you know, was like crippling and the
reason you were losing games. Got lucky, produced not a
very good team because that first half was about as
excruciating as like, because it did feel like it was
pretty dominant half of football. For still to be goose
eggs after that, and to have two kicks that were
blocked because the snap was bad and the holder had
(02:58):
his hands, I mean, the fact that the case or
even got a foot onto it, to be honest with you,
was a miracle both times. But there's got to be
a way. This is a power for a conference team
that is trying to not just get rank but trying
to work their way into like playoff conversations. Because the
schedule is pretty nice, the team looks like it's pretty good.
This is like one thing that could absolutely hold you
(03:19):
back and lose you games. What can be addressed and
what I guess was the diagnosis for what was happening
there in the first half on special.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Teams, Well, they've had troubles with Campadall Latucky and Aiden
Fleggy both at long snapper. What Tucky was their guy
that started the year and he's now just a punt
long snap where he was, and then Flegy got his
opportunity to handle field goals, Well, Fleggy misfired that first one,
and then they made the move to go back to Watucky,
(03:47):
and you know, I got a double check. But Coach
Roll made it sound like they had twitched in the
second quarter. But we definitely know in the second half
what Tucky was doing all of them again, and there
were no issues on the four pats, which you got
to start small. I mean, you got you got to
make a two foot putt before you can make a
ten foot putt and they were able to get at
least the execution done on those pats without any issues.
(04:11):
And you know Brett Maher former NFL kickers there, they've
got a brain trust of people. But yeah, that that,
I don't think anybody could have ever imagined ever we'd
be talking about long snappers on KFA B right now.
It's just not even something you think about at this point,
and it never should. I mean, it's it's like the
you know, it's the most insignificant position until it is
(04:31):
the most I mean, until you have stuff like that
we've seen happen where you know, nine points were taken
off the board, which in a game like that night
nothing what a massive at that point.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, there's no way it felt like Pritty was going
to be able to score that much. We're speaking of
Sean Callahan for Husker Buzz here. It was frustrating. The
second half was much better. This defense is for real, man.
They were talking on the broadcast on Peacock about those
single digit numbers and how crucial it is to have
the black Shirts kind of be a thing again and
(05:02):
for nine of the ten single digit numbers to be
defensive players and then like on C Bullock with the
pick six, scoring that touchdown to really like put the
game away. This defense. I don't like to look ahead
at the schedule. I try really hard not to think
about what this season could be. But there shouldn't be
a game on the schedule this year that they're out
(05:23):
of because of how good this defense has looked through
five games. Am I wrong for feeling that way?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Ll Ile State, It's going to be a challenge. USC
will be a different kind of challenge. UFC has five
legitimate NFL wide receivers, so that's going to be a
really challenging game in November in LA. But yeah, Wisconsin, Indiana, Rutgers, Iowa,
these are all games that Nebraska is going to have
a great opportunity u CLA. As you know. They're struggling
as we know, but this defense can keep them in
(05:48):
a lot of games. I look at Rutgers this week,
I don't think they're as good as Illinois was. I mean,
Illinois proved to everybody Saturday. They had a first in
goal before halftime, and they weren't able to score on that.
They would have to lead at Penn State at the break.
It was a fourteen to seven game for most of
the second half until Penn State scored a late touchdown
they go up twenty one to seven. So that's not
(06:09):
a bad loss. It was just disappointing how it played
out because Nebraska had controled that game at a moment
and they lost control. But this Rutgers team will not
have the quarterback play that Illinois had. It will not
have the receivers that Illinois had. It will have a
better running back though, so there will be a different
kind of challenge, and it will have Greg Ciano, who's
a known kick blocking artist in his career. And take
(06:32):
a few steps back when I tell you this number.
He's blocked seventy one kicks as a coach as in
his fifteen year Rutgers career. What seventy one kicks?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, seventy one and fifteen years. Yes, that's like four
and a half a season.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's great. That's how he plays ball. So between punts,
extra points, and field goals, seventy one block kicks. They
have scored sixty three non offensive touchdowns in those fifteen
seasons one hundred and eighty six games total scored sixty
three not offensive touchdowns. So they have a very Iowa
type style with how they do it. They're not going
(07:06):
to light up the stat sheet. They're going to shorten
the game. They're going to give these third and twos.
They're fifty one percent and converting their downs. Kyliemanis who's
been the quarterback at Minnesota, transferred there, beating Nebraska twice,
and so he knows how to play Nebraska's player. He's
played against Tyro Robbins. I mean, the reason he got
his opportunity in Lincoln two years ago was because of
(07:26):
Tyre Robinson. Tyro Robinson injured the Minnesota quarterback before him,
and he took over and won the game in Lincoln
at that moment. And you know, so he'll he'll be
ready for the stage this week. But he's not a
big arm guy. He's more of a management type quarterback
that's going to be good at throwing that five or
seven yard pass. They need to move the sticks.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, this Rutgers thing I said before the season, that
Rutgers game on you know, Week five or six or
whatever it is, on October the fifth is going to
be a blast because I think Rutgers could end up
pretty good in their schedules, pretty soft they are undefeated
at this point, even though they're not ranked. It's gonna
be fun. They're in the Big Ten just like Nebraska is.
(08:10):
And I saw this story come out about and correct
me if I'm wrong for feeling this way. Even though
Nebraska is a Big Ten team, that the Big Ten
and the SEC, the two powerhouse conferences in college football,
are working on a possible partnership to try to help
guarantee each conference four automatic berths into the playoff starting
(08:33):
after twenty twenty six or whatever. Can you explain this
to me and if this is good or bad for
college football?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Right this is like Microsoft and Apple merging together to
make sure they control the market. Means, that's kind of
what's going on. And if you're an Iowa State fan,
a k State fan, ACC fan, this is not good
news for you right now because these two leagues already
control the market and then they're going to possibly combine.
The other sticking point though, is the SEC needs to
(09:02):
go to nine conference games. They want to be on
equal footing with scheduling. The SEC is so protective of
their brand they don't like to play that extra conference
game because they don't want to see old myths lose
or they don't want to see somebody lose a game
like we saw last week, so they scheduled differently than
the Big Ten. So I think that's one sticking point
that's got to get ironed out, is can they agree
(09:22):
on scheduling numbers, And I do think they will because
the SEC with their television deal, they need nine games
too to pay out the money they want to pay
these teams. And this is all about money. That's not
kid ourselves. I mean, these two leagues already pay a
lot of money, and it's going to be more money
that comes in. For Nebraska's sake. They are very fortunate
to be where they're at right now, not on the
(09:44):
wrong side of the fence, because it's going to allow
them an opportunity to be at the big boy table
with the rest of the college football teams they want
to be with.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, I just can't help but feel like we are
so far away from the college football we grew up loving.
This would be kind of a death in a way,
and kind of relegation in a sense for a lot
of these teams, like an Iowa State or even like
a Colorado or some of these other teams we saw
it with the latest round of realignment. Sean is this basically,
(10:15):
should we just start looking at this as minor league
legitimate football instead of looking at it like college athletics,
because it just feels so far away from what it was.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, the NCAA, like, what's the point of the enforcement?
I mean, I think these leagues will be the enforcement
going forward. And you know, what's the point of really
enforcing academics and classes and is this things that you
know and look, they're really important. Academics and getting a degree.
It really matters. It should be ninety percent of these
guys they're going to need that. And even when you
(10:45):
play for football, if you're lucky enough to your career
might be only three years long. You've still got to
figure out what you're going to do for the next
fifty years of your life after that point. And so
that there are there are some benefits to the system
right now that are really really important, but the short
term financial gain of NIL and the conference payouts and
everything else. Yet it's really changed things quickly, and these
(11:08):
TV networks know that live sports are their number one
drawl right now for ratings and revenue. I mean, if
you look at the most watched one hundred things in
the country, like ninety some of them are live sporting
events in most of the football games.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And that's one of the reasons why I think it
makes sense for the players to get a piece of
the pie because of the amount of money that is
being pulled in from the schools on the backs of
these players. At the same time, US pretending like academics
are important to these major schools just doesn't seem like
it makes any sense anymore. But we'll start breaking down
this Rutgers matchup, which will be very fun throughout the week. Sean,
I really appreciate it as always, and great to chat
(11:48):
with you again.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It's great to have you back.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Thanks absolutely, Sean Callahan, Husker Buzz five nineteen.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
We'll have more for you. Stick around news Radio eleven
to ten kfab Emery Sunger on News You eleven ten
KF A B
Sean, it's good to speak with you again, my man.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Man, I have missed you. It's it's been an adventure,
you know, you know, but we're glad you're back.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm glad to be back. I will say this, Sean.
I'm still paying very close attention to the Huskers. That
Illinois game. We didn't get a chance to talk to
you too much about it. Obviously, a pretty painful way
to lose after a three and zero start, but a
solid bounce back against Purdue to be expected with the
team that's kind of in the middle of a rebuild.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Defense looked awesome again.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What was kind of your takeaway about the way that
things kind of played out over the course of those
sixty minutes in West Lafayette.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
You know, it was a zero zero half and it
was ugly, but you knew Nebraska was in still pretty
good shape. I mean, their defense had been playing lights
out and their offense didn't pun in the first half,
and they moved the ball. I mean, they really didn't
have to pun, and they moved the ball six times
across the forty and I guess they did pun, but
it was you know, they were trying to pin them
to their in no man plan, but they had great
(00:58):
success early. They were having trouble penalties, they're having trouble
a third downs, obviously, they're having trouble snapping and kicking.
They got all those things ironed out and they were
down three nothing in the third quarter, and I thought
that was a key moment. They answered, Ryola fines Jamal
Banks for the touchdown to put them up at that point,
and they never looked back. They get a stop, they
(01:19):
get a score, they get to stop, they get a score,
and John Bullet gets to pick six. It's twenty eight
to three, so they really did respond well. It was
a still an al bider. I mean, a fourth down
touchdown run by Dante Daldell was kind of a key
moment too in that game. The penalties, though, I've never
seen a game like that. I mean, there was you know,
(01:40):
you know, two hundred and fifty yards of penalties in
that game, and Nebraska got eight first downs from penalties
by Purdue, which was the most ever in a Hoscar
game in history. I went through the record books last
night and that's the record they keep. The previous record
was six six first downs by penalties, so they the
stats are even mislead for Nebraska because they had a
(02:01):
lot of yardage wiped away because of penalty. And you know,
they still put up over four hundred yards, but that
could have easily been a five hundred fift yr day
if not for some of the penalties that kind of
affected the final yardage numbers for the Huskers.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, and I got to tell you we're speaking of
Sean Cally and for Husker buzz here. The lack of
scoring when you get into inside like the opponent's thirty.
You know, we talked about like horrible turnovers last year
just kind of killed a lot of good drives. Didn't
really have a lot of that. The first month of
(02:37):
the season that you know, was like crippling and the
reason you were losing games. Got lucky, produced not a
very good team because that first half was about as
excruciating as like, because it did feel like it was
pretty dominant half of football. For still to be goose
eggs after that, and to have two kicks that were
blocked because the snap was bad and the holder had
(02:58):
his hands, I mean, the fact that the case or
even got a foot onto it, to be honest with you,
was a miracle both times. But there's got to be
a way. This is a power for a conference team
that is trying to not just get rank but trying
to work their way into like playoff conversations. Because the
schedule is pretty nice, the team looks like it's pretty good.
This is like one thing that could absolutely hold you
(03:19):
back and lose you games. What can be addressed and
what I guess was the diagnosis for what was happening
there in the first half on special.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Teams, Well, they've had troubles with Campadall Latucky and Aiden
Fleggy both at long snapper. What Tucky was their guy
that started the year and he's now just a punt
long snap where he was, and then Flegy got his
opportunity to handle field goals, Well, Fleggy misfired that first one,
and then they made the move to go back to Watucky,
(03:47):
and you know, I got a double check. But Coach
Roll made it sound like they had twitched in the
second quarter. But we definitely know in the second half
what Tucky was doing all of them again, and there
were no issues on the four pats, which you got
to start small. I mean, you got you got to
make a two foot putt before you can make a
ten foot putt and they were able to get at
least the execution done on those pats without any issues.
(04:11):
And you know Brett Maher former NFL kickers there, they've
got a brain trust of people. But yeah, that that,
I don't think anybody could have ever imagined ever we'd
be talking about long snappers on KFA B right now.
It's just not even something you think about at this point,
and it never should. I mean, it's it's like the
you know, it's the most insignificant position until it is
(04:31):
the most I mean, until you have stuff like that
we've seen happen where you know, nine points were taken
off the board, which in a game like that night
nothing what a massive at that point.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, there's no way it felt like Pritty was going
to be able to score that much. We're speaking of
Sean Callahan for Husker Buzz here. It was frustrating. The
second half was much better. This defense is for real, man.
They were talking on the broadcast on Peacock about those
single digit numbers and how crucial it is to have
the black Shirts kind of be a thing again and
(05:02):
for nine of the ten single digit numbers to be
defensive players and then like on C Bullock with the
pick six, scoring that touchdown to really like put the
game away. This defense. I don't like to look ahead
at the schedule. I try really hard not to think
about what this season could be. But there shouldn't be
a game on the schedule this year that they're out
(05:23):
of because of how good this defense has looked through
five games. Am I wrong for feeling that way?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Ll Ile State, It's going to be a challenge. USC
will be a different kind of challenge. UFC has five
legitimate NFL wide receivers, so that's going to be a
really challenging game in November in LA. But yeah, Wisconsin, Indiana, Rutgers, Iowa,
these are all games that Nebraska is going to have
a great opportunity u CLA. As you know. They're struggling
as we know, but this defense can keep them in
(05:48):
a lot of games. I look at Rutgers this week,
I don't think they're as good as Illinois was. I mean,
Illinois proved to everybody Saturday. They had a first in
goal before halftime, and they weren't able to score on that.
They would have to lead at Penn State at the break.
It was a fourteen to seven game for most of
the second half until Penn State scored a late touchdown
they go up twenty one to seven. So that's not
(06:09):
a bad loss. It was just disappointing how it played
out because Nebraska had controled that game at a moment
and they lost control. But this Rutgers team will not
have the quarterback play that Illinois had. It will not
have the receivers that Illinois had. It will have a
better running back though, so there will be a different
kind of challenge, and it will have Greg Ciano, who's
a known kick blocking artist in his career. And take
(06:32):
a few steps back when I tell you this number.
He's blocked seventy one kicks as a coach as in
his fifteen year Rutgers career. What seventy one kicks?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, seventy one and fifteen years. Yes, that's like four
and a half a season.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's great. That's how he plays ball. So between punts,
extra points, and field goals, seventy one block kicks. They
have scored sixty three non offensive touchdowns in those fifteen
seasons one hundred and eighty six games total scored sixty
three not offensive touchdowns. So they have a very Iowa
type style with how they do it. They're not going
(07:06):
to light up the stat sheet. They're going to shorten
the game. They're going to give these third and twos.
They're fifty one percent and converting their downs. Kyliemanis who's
been the quarterback at Minnesota, transferred there, beating Nebraska twice,
and so he knows how to play Nebraska's player. He's
played against Tyro Robbins. I mean, the reason he got
his opportunity in Lincoln two years ago was because of
(07:26):
Tyre Robinson. Tyro Robinson injured the Minnesota quarterback before him,
and he took over and won the game in Lincoln
at that moment. And you know, so he'll he'll be
ready for the stage this week. But he's not a
big arm guy. He's more of a management type quarterback
that's going to be good at throwing that five or
seven yard pass. They need to move the sticks.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, this Rutgers thing I said before the season, that
Rutgers game on you know, Week five or six or
whatever it is, on October the fifth is going to
be a blast because I think Rutgers could end up
pretty good in their schedules, pretty soft they are undefeated
at this point, even though they're not ranked. It's gonna
be fun. They're in the Big Ten just like Nebraska is.
(08:10):
And I saw this story come out about and correct
me if I'm wrong for feeling this way. Even though
Nebraska is a Big Ten team, that the Big Ten
and the SEC, the two powerhouse conferences in college football,
are working on a possible partnership to try to help
guarantee each conference four automatic berths into the playoff starting
(08:33):
after twenty twenty six or whatever. Can you explain this
to me and if this is good or bad for
college football?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Right this is like Microsoft and Apple merging together to
make sure they control the market. Means, that's kind of
what's going on. And if you're an Iowa State fan,
a k State fan, ACC fan, this is not good
news for you right now because these two leagues already
control the market and then they're going to possibly combine.
The other sticking point though, is the SEC needs to
(09:02):
go to nine conference games. They want to be on
equal footing with scheduling. The SEC is so protective of
their brand they don't like to play that extra conference
game because they don't want to see old myths lose
or they don't want to see somebody lose a game
like we saw last week, so they scheduled differently than
the Big Ten. So I think that's one sticking point
that's got to get ironed out, is can they agree
(09:22):
on scheduling numbers, And I do think they will because
the SEC with their television deal, they need nine games
too to pay out the money they want to pay
these teams. And this is all about money. That's not
kid ourselves. I mean, these two leagues already pay a
lot of money, and it's going to be more money
that comes in. For Nebraska's sake. They are very fortunate
to be where they're at right now, not on the
(09:44):
wrong side of the fence, because it's going to allow
them an opportunity to be at the big boy table
with the rest of the college football teams they want
to be with.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, I just can't help but feel like we are
so far away from the college football we grew up loving.
This would be kind of a death in a way,
and kind of relegation in a sense for a lot
of these teams, like an Iowa State or even like
a Colorado or some of these other teams we saw
it with the latest round of realignment. Sean is this basically,
(10:15):
should we just start looking at this as minor league
legitimate football instead of looking at it like college athletics,
because it just feels so far away from what it was.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, the NCAA, like, what's the point of the enforcement?
I mean, I think these leagues will be the enforcement
going forward. And you know, what's the point of really
enforcing academics and classes and is this things that you
know and look, they're really important. Academics and getting a degree.
It really matters. It should be ninety percent of these
guys they're going to need that. And even when you
(10:45):
play for football, if you're lucky enough to your career
might be only three years long. You've still got to
figure out what you're going to do for the next
fifty years of your life after that point. And so
that there are there are some benefits to the system
right now that are really really important, but the short
term financial gain of NIL and the conference payouts and
everything else. Yet it's really changed things quickly, and these
(11:08):
TV networks know that live sports are their number one
drawl right now for ratings and revenue. I mean, if
you look at the most watched one hundred things in
the country, like ninety some of them are live sporting
events in most of the football games.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And that's one of the reasons why I think it
makes sense for the players to get a piece of
the pie because of the amount of money that is
being pulled in from the schools on the backs of
these players. At the same time, US pretending like academics
are important to these major schools just doesn't seem like
it makes any sense anymore. But we'll start breaking down
this Rutgers matchup, which will be very fun throughout the week. Sean,
I really appreciate it as always, and great to chat
(11:48):
with you again.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It's great to have you back.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Thanks absolutely, Sean Callahan, Husker Buzz five nineteen.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
We'll have more for you. Stick around news Radio eleven
to ten kfab Emery Sunger on News You eleven ten
KF A B
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