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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We had a conversation and we'll get to some Husker
buzz here because the spring football in full force and
the basketball team is still playing for whatever it's worth.
But Sean, Matt and I were talking off the air
and we were talking and we were thinking about what
the future of like the Pac twelve, because it's coming
back after next season, is coming back in some form,
even if it looks very different. And Matt was like,
(00:22):
if you took somebody and let them make a vote,
like just fans of the sport college sports in general,
if they wanted to freeze conferences in two thousand and
seven or live in the world that we're living in now,
what would be the result of that vote. How would
you kind of answer that from a fans perspective and
also an institutional perspective, because certainly that would keep Nebraska,
(00:43):
Colorado and all these you know, the original Big Twelve
still intact among all the other conferences.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think for other sports outside of especially football, it
makes a lot of sense. But we know a lot
of this has been driven by specifically football and the money,
and it's you know, with this revenue share amount that's
expected to come in in July, these schools have to
find as much money as possible to be able to
(01:09):
pay the twenty and a half million or come close
to paying that amount of money. But yeah, there's a
lot I think about when I first started this job,
and Nebraska was in the Big twelve and I was
growing up there in the Big Eight. But you know,
on a Saturday, you could drive on a Saturday morning
go to a Huscar road game and Aims or Manhattan
(01:29):
or Lawrence, you know, somewhere really close Columbia, and a
lot of times you could be back and not have
to stay the night. And it was just a different time.
I mean, And now obviously it's way different. And last
year Nebraska played in New York City and they've played
in Los Angeles. I mean, they were all over the
country in terms of just the demand of what the
(01:53):
television dollars have done to college football and how it's
caused all this. You know, the Pac twelve is in
a form you know, in Gonzaga and Saint Mary's in
that too. For basketball, I forget, don't Washington State and Oregon.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
State they are not actually so that at least at
this point, that would be the end of the same
areas Gonzaga rivalry as far as I can tell, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thinking about this last night. So Nebraska's played of the
Pac twelve teams last year, not this year, but last year.
Nebraska basketball after tomorrow night, well played seven of them
this year. The four in the Big Ten, UCLA, USC, Washington,
and Oregon they played earlier this year, Oregon State, they
played Arizona State last night. That's six, and then the
(02:40):
seventh team will be Washington State tomorrow night. So they've
played almost every Pack twelve team this year on their schedule,
which is which is kind of a bizarre deal when
you think about how much things have changed with scheduling
around the country.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, they jump into the Big Ten and all of
a sudden have almost every Pack twelve team on their schedule. Yeah,
it's pretty hilarious. Sean Calley and joining us for Husker buzz.
Let's just mention the basketball real quick. They got to
win against Arizona State last night, pulled away late as
a competitive game. I don't it was funny. Usually Fox
when they're doing these games, has the record of the
teams when they're playing each other, but they have made
(03:16):
the executive decision not to talk about teams records about this,
This did this big tournament because of all of the
kind of weird teams that they had to invite to,
you know, make the conference.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
All Well, De.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Paul is a losing record. I mean, Arizona State only
like thirteen wins or something. Colorado finished below Arizona State
in the Big twelve and still got the invite. Like,
it's just a weird situation. But I was watching it
last night. The guys seem to be enjoying it. There's
a cash prize of nil money at the end of it,
and they were able to kind of wash away that
(03:48):
last couple of weeks where things really got away from them.
What did that win mean last night for this team?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, was Nebraska basketball's first win in forty six days.
Oh gosh, you think about February sixteenth, was the last
time Nebraska won a basketball game. And I was at
Northwestern and at that point on the road they won
at Northwestern. Nobody was thinking playing anything other than the
NCAA Tournament because you look at the remainder of the
(04:15):
schedule and what was ahead, and you're like, Okay, you
got Minnesota and Lincoln, you got Iowa and Lincoln you
got Penn State, a team that didn't I believe qualify
for the Big Ten tournament, and it was really a
manageable ending, and somehow Nebraska just figured out a way
to screw it up late and got themselves to this
point where they're in Vegas. But you know, it was
(04:36):
the first thirty minutes of that game were extremely frustrating.
I actually had a hard time watching it. I was
just getting angry, but probably everybody else. So here we
go again, Here we go again. But thankfully they got
Connor Siegen going and that made a big difference because
Bryce Williams and Juwan Gary can only do so much.
You need somebody else. And they made some interesting lineup tweaks.
(04:59):
They played more of a small ball style where Kale
Jacobson from Ashland green Wood played a career high I
believe twenty two minutes, and we saw them kind of
go away from Andrew Morgan for the most part in
the second half, and we saw, obviously Braxt and Media
really not play much in the second half. It was
one of the more unique lineups we've seen Nebraska play with,
(05:21):
but it worked in a game like that, especially when
Arizona State's big center foulled out. They didn't have anybody
that was really a rim protector in that game that
could block shots and allowed Nebraska to get a lot
of good looks and they were able to make that run.
And Arizona State only had seven scholarship players available last night,
so they Nebraska needed to win this game. It would
(05:43):
have been a really disappointing if they didn't win that game.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They win it, as you mentioned, tomorrow night, they'll play
Washington State, another manageable game you would imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Right, Yeah, they have a winning record. I mean they're
right on par probably at the Oregon stage, who Nebraska
beat earlier this year, Vegas. Nebraska has all their team.
They have every player other than Raleigh Wooster who's out
with an injury. So this is a fully loaded Husker
team that's interested. You know, Burke got going a little
bit last night. It was good to see and hit
(06:13):
a shot and score. He had been you know, that's
when the season changed for Nebraska. When Burke got hurt
and you know, missed those games, the team changed and
then he was not right when he came back. But
you know, when Burk was healthy at Oregon, really the
last time we saw him. That was a different looking
Nebraska basketball team and we hadn't really seen that team
(06:37):
at since since Oregon, and they won that game in Eugene,
and his injury kind of changed the was a big
part that changed that. Your directory of their season last
year this.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Year fascinating and we'll see if the Huskers can keep
the good vibes going. It'd be really sweet to see
them maybe make it to the weekend on this tournament.
Who knows, maybe have a shot at that three hundred
thousand dollars of nil money football spring practice into you
a full second week here. Have we learned anything in
the early going this week or over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, And I mean there's some things that ain't bruin,
but nothing came out of today. We didn't hear from
Matt Rule today. It was John Butler, and I think
these guys are just going to go out of their
way to not say anything. And it makes sense because
you don't want to like highlight players. You don't want
to share depth chart or name kind of who's running
with ones and twos, because what are are we in
(07:26):
that We're in the innil era, We're in the transfer
port era. So it's kind of low hanging fruit. Now,
if you leave out a guy of those conversations, they
get mad and they transfer. If you praise a guy
that's doing well, that maybe a number two type player,
they might get approach to transfer, or they might want
more money or more in il money. So John Butler,
(07:46):
you know, I asked him even like, hey, see right,
you know obviously comes back as one of your two corners.
What does it look like at that spot opposite of Sierra?
And he was quick to point out that Sierra is
not a starter right now. He's got to you know,
earn and win that job, still battling. So that's the
stance I think they're going to take because you know,
see it right's about as obvious as a starter as
(08:07):
there is. And hemates for of the biggest plays of
the season last year of Nebraska's defense, but they were
careful to praise him even today.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, and Nebraska, I don't want to call them trend setters,
but they're one of several schools that are really kind
of going away from that traditional look of what spring
ends with. I also saw something that Syracuse said that
they'd show up to Colorado and play if Deon Sanders
really wants his team to you know, play another school
(08:34):
for a couple of days like they do in the pros.
Do you think there's any merit to that as kind
of like an option for spring practice or do you
really think the more secretive type of Hey, we're not
really going to do a whole lot of anything that
people are going to get on film because we're afraid
of what it could mean for next season.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, it's not within the rule. I mean, you just
legally couldn't do it, and I don't know what the
penalty would be, how they n CA would enforce it,
but it's just not something that's allowed out. It's a
great off season topic to discuss and have fun about,
but it's really all it is right now. There's nothing.
You know. The closest thing that we used to see
(09:10):
as something like this was back in the day Nebraska
did have a freshman team and they would play like
freshman teams and junior college teams with their freshman only players.
But that ended in like the early nineties, and that
was done in the fall, so that wasn't a spring thing.
But yeah, I think if they could ever do something
and you look spring games in general have definitely fallen off.
(09:34):
You're not seeing near as many. There's a website that
lists all the games that are on TV, and hardly
any big spring games are on TV this year. You're
just not going to see near the excitement or coverage
or a year ago, Fox, the Three Letter Network, the
Big Channel aired Michigan Spring game and Ohio State Spring
game on Fox, and you know that was about the
(09:56):
pinnacle of it, and we're not going to see that
this year. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, and again, when you explain it the way that
it's been explained, especially from Nebraska, that look, it puts
us at a disadvantage when we actually get to the fall.
It makes a lot of sense, but again it's just
another longtime tradition in college football that's gone by the
wayside with all of the changes that we have at
our fingertips. Sean Callahan for Husker Buzz, how about we
rerack this on Thursday?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
How's that sound? Yeah? That sounds great, looking forward to it,
all right.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sean Callahan for Husker buzs big things to him as always,
great coverage for him, no fooling on that front. You
can find him, of course doing his great work on
social media. Just follow him on x especially Sean Underscore.
Callahan big thanks to him and the Husker Online crew
We had a conversation and we'll get to some Husker
buzz here because the spring football in full force and
the basketball team is still playing for whatever it's worth.
But Sean, Matt and I were talking off the air
and we were talking and we were thinking about what
the future of like the Pac twelve, because it's coming
back after next season, is coming back in some form,
even if it looks very different. And Matt was like,
(00:22):
if you took somebody and let them make a vote,
like just fans of the sport college sports in general,
if they wanted to freeze conferences in two thousand and
seven or live in the world that we're living in now,
what would be the result of that vote. How would
you kind of answer that from a fans perspective and
also an institutional perspective, because certainly that would keep Nebraska,
(00:43):
Colorado and all these you know, the original Big Twelve
still intact among all the other conferences.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think for other sports outside of especially football, it
makes a lot of sense. But we know a lot
of this has been driven by specifically football and the money,
and it's you know, with this revenue share amount that's
expected to come in in July, these schools have to
find as much money as possible to be able to
(01:09):
pay the twenty and a half million or come close
to paying that amount of money. But yeah, there's a
lot I think about when I first started this job,
and Nebraska was in the Big twelve and I was
growing up there in the Big Eight. But you know,
on a Saturday, you could drive on a Saturday morning
go to a Huscar road game and Aims or Manhattan
(01:29):
or Lawrence, you know, somewhere really close Columbia, and a
lot of times you could be back and not have
to stay the night. And it was just a different time.
I mean, And now obviously it's way different. And last
year Nebraska played in New York City and they've played
in Los Angeles. I mean, they were all over the
country in terms of just the demand of what the
(01:53):
television dollars have done to college football and how it's
caused all this. You know, the Pac twelve is in
a form you know, in Gonzaga and Saint Mary's in
that too. For basketball, I forget, don't Washington State and Oregon.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
State they are not actually so that at least at
this point, that would be the end of the same
areas Gonzaga rivalry as far as I can tell, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thinking about this last night. So Nebraska's played of the
Pac twelve teams last year, not this year, but last year.
Nebraska basketball after tomorrow night, well played seven of them
this year. The four in the Big Ten, UCLA, USC, Washington,
and Oregon they played earlier this year, Oregon State, they
played Arizona State last night. That's six, and then the
(02:40):
seventh team will be Washington State tomorrow night. So they've
played almost every Pack twelve team this year on their schedule,
which is which is kind of a bizarre deal when
you think about how much things have changed with scheduling
around the country.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, they jump into the Big Ten and all of
a sudden have almost every Pack twelve team on their schedule. Yeah,
it's pretty hilarious. Sean Calley and joining us for Husker buzz.
Let's just mention the basketball real quick. They got to
win against Arizona State last night, pulled away late as
a competitive game. I don't it was funny. Usually Fox
when they're doing these games, has the record of the
teams when they're playing each other, but they have made
(03:16):
the executive decision not to talk about teams records about this,
This did this big tournament because of all of the
kind of weird teams that they had to invite to,
you know, make the conference.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
All Well, De.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Paul is a losing record. I mean, Arizona State only
like thirteen wins or something. Colorado finished below Arizona State
in the Big twelve and still got the invite. Like,
it's just a weird situation. But I was watching it
last night. The guys seem to be enjoying it. There's
a cash prize of nil money at the end of it,
and they were able to kind of wash away that
(03:48):
last couple of weeks where things really got away from them.
What did that win mean last night for this team?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, was Nebraska basketball's first win in forty six days.
Oh gosh, you think about February sixteenth, was the last
time Nebraska won a basketball game. And I was at
Northwestern and at that point on the road they won
at Northwestern. Nobody was thinking playing anything other than the
NCAA Tournament because you look at the remainder of the
(04:15):
schedule and what was ahead, and you're like, Okay, you
got Minnesota and Lincoln, you got Iowa and Lincoln you
got Penn State, a team that didn't I believe qualify
for the Big Ten tournament, and it was really a
manageable ending, and somehow Nebraska just figured out a way
to screw it up late and got themselves to this
point where they're in Vegas. But you know, it was
(04:36):
the first thirty minutes of that game were extremely frustrating.
I actually had a hard time watching it. I was
just getting angry, but probably everybody else. So here we
go again, Here we go again. But thankfully they got
Connor Siegen going and that made a big difference because
Bryce Williams and Juwan Gary can only do so much.
You need somebody else. And they made some interesting lineup tweaks.
(04:59):
They played more of a small ball style where Kale
Jacobson from Ashland green Wood played a career high I
believe twenty two minutes, and we saw them kind of
go away from Andrew Morgan for the most part in
the second half, and we saw, obviously Braxt and Media
really not play much in the second half. It was
one of the more unique lineups we've seen Nebraska play with,
(05:21):
but it worked in a game like that, especially when
Arizona State's big center foulled out. They didn't have anybody
that was really a rim protector in that game that
could block shots and allowed Nebraska to get a lot
of good looks and they were able to make that run.
And Arizona State only had seven scholarship players available last night,
so they Nebraska needed to win this game. It would
(05:43):
have been a really disappointing if they didn't win that game.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They win it, as you mentioned, tomorrow night, they'll play
Washington State, another manageable game you would imagine.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Right, Yeah, they have a winning record. I mean they're
right on par probably at the Oregon stage, who Nebraska
beat earlier this year, Vegas. Nebraska has all their team.
They have every player other than Raleigh Wooster who's out
with an injury. So this is a fully loaded Husker
team that's interested. You know, Burke got going a little
bit last night. It was good to see and hit
(06:13):
a shot and score. He had been you know, that's
when the season changed for Nebraska. When Burke got hurt
and you know, missed those games, the team changed and
then he was not right when he came back. But
you know, when Burk was healthy at Oregon, really the
last time we saw him. That was a different looking
Nebraska basketball team and we hadn't really seen that team
(06:37):
at since since Oregon, and they won that game in Eugene,
and his injury kind of changed the was a big
part that changed that. Your directory of their season last
year this.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Year fascinating and we'll see if the Huskers can keep
the good vibes going. It'd be really sweet to see
them maybe make it to the weekend on this tournament.
Who knows, maybe have a shot at that three hundred
thousand dollars of nil money football spring practice into you
a full second week here. Have we learned anything in
the early going this week or over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
No, And I mean there's some things that ain't bruin,
but nothing came out of today. We didn't hear from
Matt Rule today. It was John Butler, and I think
these guys are just going to go out of their
way to not say anything. And it makes sense because
you don't want to like highlight players. You don't want
to share depth chart or name kind of who's running
with ones and twos, because what are are we in
(07:26):
that We're in the innil era, We're in the transfer
port era. So it's kind of low hanging fruit. Now,
if you leave out a guy of those conversations, they
get mad and they transfer. If you praise a guy
that's doing well, that maybe a number two type player,
they might get approach to transfer, or they might want
more money or more in il money. So John Butler,
(07:46):
you know, I asked him even like, hey, see right,
you know obviously comes back as one of your two corners.
What does it look like at that spot opposite of Sierra?
And he was quick to point out that Sierra is
not a starter right now. He's got to you know,
earn and win that job, still battling. So that's the
stance I think they're going to take because you know,
see it right's about as obvious as a starter as
(08:07):
there is. And hemates for of the biggest plays of
the season last year of Nebraska's defense, but they were
careful to praise him even today.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, and Nebraska, I don't want to call them trend setters,
but they're one of several schools that are really kind
of going away from that traditional look of what spring
ends with. I also saw something that Syracuse said that
they'd show up to Colorado and play if Deon Sanders
really wants his team to you know, play another school
(08:34):
for a couple of days like they do in the pros.
Do you think there's any merit to that as kind
of like an option for spring practice or do you
really think the more secretive type of Hey, we're not
really going to do a whole lot of anything that
people are going to get on film because we're afraid
of what it could mean for next season.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, it's not within the rule. I mean, you just
legally couldn't do it, and I don't know what the
penalty would be, how they n CA would enforce it,
but it's just not something that's allowed out. It's a
great off season topic to discuss and have fun about,
but it's really all it is right now. There's nothing.
You know. The closest thing that we used to see
(09:10):
as something like this was back in the day Nebraska
did have a freshman team and they would play like
freshman teams and junior college teams with their freshman only players.
But that ended in like the early nineties, and that
was done in the fall, so that wasn't a spring thing.
But yeah, I think if they could ever do something
and you look spring games in general have definitely fallen off.
(09:34):
You're not seeing near as many. There's a website that
lists all the games that are on TV, and hardly
any big spring games are on TV this year. You're
just not going to see near the excitement or coverage
or a year ago, Fox, the Three Letter Network, the
Big Channel aired Michigan Spring game and Ohio State Spring
game on Fox, and you know that was about the
(09:56):
pinnacle of it, and we're not going to see that
this year. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, and again, when you explain it the way that
it's been explained, especially from Nebraska, that look, it puts
us at a disadvantage when we actually get to the fall.
It makes a lot of sense, but again it's just
another longtime tradition in college football that's gone by the
wayside with all of the changes that we have at
our fingertips. Sean Callahan for Husker Buzz, how about we
rerack this on Thursday?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
How's that sound? Yeah? That sounds great, looking forward to it,
all right.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sean Callahan for Husker buzs big things to him as always,
great coverage for him, no fooling on that front. You
can find him, of course doing his great work on
social media. Just follow him on x especially Sean Underscore.
Callahan big thanks to him and the Husker Online crew
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