May 28, 2025 • 13 mins
College Football has changed, has your passion changed too?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And he talks in college football, and there's a guy
(00:02):
named Josh Pat who had a take that I think
is just one of the most incredibly tone deaf things
that I think people who cover college football on a
bigger level feel. And I'll get to that in a second.
That'll be probably at about five point thirty six, five
thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This whole.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
How do I put this, this entire lexicon? I think
of conversation when it comes to how important our community relies.
I think on having stuff to rally around that isn't political,
I think is incredibly important. And on that note, college
baseball kind of fills a void here in the like
(00:46):
the May and June area here in Omaha, specifically in
the state of Nebraska. Also, Matt, did you get a
chance to see what the Nebraska baseball team was able
to do over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I did, and that was pretty cool. What a run
they went on takedown Oregon, the top seed in the tournament. However,
people are saying Oregon's already in they were kind of
ready just to get there, so maybe they weren't the
most motivated bunch, But to not just beat Oregon, but
then a couple hours later to beat a Penn State
team that needed that win. They needed it just as yeah.
(01:16):
And to get in yeah, and then to beat a
good UCLA team they shut them out too, right, Yeah,
I mean that team was steamrolling. How about a team
that people kind of rode off a while ago. McConaughey,
Mason McConaughey goes down, he's out for the year. People
are thinking, Ah, this Nebraska baseball team is not going
to do anything this year.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They were picked to finish second in the Big Ten
and it went south fast. Yeah, but yet here they
are and everything's in front of them. They made it
to the regionals, and you want to talk about how
awesome this is. That crowd was incredible on Saturday and Sunday,
especially Sunday. I was there on Saturday with my parents.
My parents are not obviously around usually here, and I
(01:56):
took them to the Penn State game and it was
beautiful out when we went there. So thanks to the
mother nature for letting things be all right for playing ball.
It was a little wet on the field, but we
were kind of in a good spot at Charles Schwap Field.
But they, I mean, how about that. That's so crazy
to me? And they're going to Chapel Hill. I'll have
(02:17):
a chance to, you know, make some noise there. Number
five seed North Carolina is going to be in the way.
They'll have to knock them off. Oklahoma and Holy Cross
are the other teams involved. Based on the way that
they were pitching and the way that they were hitting
in the Big Ten Tournament, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Think you can write them off.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You got to keep an eye on that because in
shout out to the softball team making it to the
Super Regionals, they took game one off of Tennessee, couldn't
quite finish the job. But I mean, do not forget
this is a Nebraska team that, like Jordi Ball, was
carrying the softball team. They have other good players, but
she was the engine right like they went as far
(02:59):
as she could help take them.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
This baseball team, we're.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Talking five to six to seven guys that in the
batting order that you would have to consider dangerous at
this point right now, the way that they were hitting
in the Big Ten Tournament. And then throw in a
couple of guys who were absolutely on fire. Ty Horn
was the big one, throwing eight shutout innings in the
championship game. Be on the lookout for them. Be on
the lookout.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
They're hot at the right times. At the tough draw,
I feel like UNC that's tough. Oklahoma in your bracket too,
that's tough, but why not. They're in it. They got
a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Reknew that Oklahoma rivalry this time on the diamond, and
we got.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Two chances to get a local team in Omahaw because
Creighton's in it too.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Creighton is going to be playing against Arkansas in the
Fayetteville Regional. They are the three seed, Arkansas the one seed.
Kansas is the two seed in the North Dakota State
is the four seed. These are four team brackets, and
you have to lose twice to get eliminated, so they'll
have their chance. Your odds go up drastically by winning
(03:58):
the first game. And both of our teams, Creighton and
Nebraska are three seeds, so they don't have to play
the best team right away. But you're gonna have to
beat them twice if you're gonna like at least once,
maybe twice to make it to the super regionals. So
we'll keep an eye on that, and we'll also this
week kind of break down some of the higher Seeds,
(04:19):
so we can start kind of thinking about maybe the
teams we could potentially be seeing here in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It is five twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I got to get to a college football take that
really may irk some people. I got to play it
for you. We'll do that coming up on news Radio
eleven to ten kfab Matt, what's the number one team
in this area if you had to pick? Well, is
the number one team that people take interest in in
the entire area area? Being specific to Omaha, I would
say Omaha Lincoln. Anybody could hear me, Well, it's definitely
the Huskers, and specifically what sport football? I would agree, Well,
(04:52):
I'm going to have you play some audio from a
guy named Josh Pate, who is a college football purest
kind of guy. Not a purest necessarily in the way
that he thanks, but he just loves college football. And
he's got a show that he talks about nothing but
college football. He's just all college football all the time.
It's really his whole thing. I kind of liked him,
(05:13):
and because he seemed to be willing to stand up
to like the giant conferences and kind of speak for
the little guy and say that there were space for
the little guy out there. He also kind of likes
Iowa State, and he always works Iowa State into his content, which,
you know, me being an Iowa State fan before I
moved over here made me kind of like him.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Here he is on a show just this past weekend
talking about what college football is in all the people
that are complaining about changes, and here's his take on that.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
There's Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Let's say Michigan's in town, and let's say it's midway
through the third quarter and they're deadlocked at seventeen, and
it's fourth and one on your own thirty eight yard
line and they're opting to go for it. Clock's ticking down,
huddle breaks five four, three, crowds at full throat, Just pause,
right there, is anybody thinking about whether Ohio State had
(06:05):
ota workouts? Is anybody thinking about how much the left
hackles making You're not. So the point is the game
hasn't really been ruined at all. If that moment feels different,
If that moment is ruined, then college football has ruined itself.
Does Saturday still feel like Saturday in the fall, because
that's really the great barometer. So my answer is, yes,
(06:25):
Saturday still feels like Saturday. I think college football is
extremely resilient, like it is extremely strong. It's the redwood.
You could chop a redwood down, but you don't do
it with five or ten swings. Is it? It take
a lot to chop down a redwood, all concentrated, all
at one spot on that tree, and don't do it
because you'll get arrested. But point being takes a lot
(06:46):
to ruin college football. That's a byproduct of how great
it is. That's Josh Pate.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I understand he wants to love his sport, but I'm
going to be a bit of a pessimist here time
in here, Matt college FOOTBA feels absolutely one hundred percent
different than it did five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It has nothing to do with the fact that the
team that we root for on Saturdays isn't quite as
powerful as it was in the nineteen nineties. You want
to talk about the transfer portal, You want to talk
about the money that's coming in. You want to talk
about the conference re alignment. Can we talk about conference
re alignment for a second? Ask somebody who ask Oregon
State or Washington State who were left out of the
big conferences. Now, after the basically the money grabs from
(07:30):
the schools that ran to the Big twelve, the ACC
and the Big Ten. Out of the packed twelve, they
were left behind. Ask Washington State and Oregon State if
they feel the same about college football on Saturdays when
Alabama can lose to teams like Vanderbilt and a six
and six Oklahoma team and still have a shot at
potentially making the playoff and winning a national championship, does
(07:52):
that feel the same anymore? Here's my take, hot take,
and this is before we can get into Greg Sankee,
who's the commiss of the SEC, who along with the
Big ten trying to position themselves they see you know
what he said that this weekend, I have a bunch
of people calling me and saying why are we still
in the NC double A? Once again hinting at like
we could just start our own league. We have the
(08:13):
money deal or the media deal, we get the money
from you know, advertisers, and all of our nil is
really strong.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Why do we need the NC double A? We can
just do our own thing?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Was that not announced?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, they change the rules, but there, but he said,
why are we still in the NC Double A? Like
the SEC as a whole. He is suggesting they break
off and create their own thing.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That's what I'm saying, Like in twenty eight twenty nine,
like he's, he's, he's, the SEC is looking at just
completely leaving the NCAA.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Trying to trying to make it themselves. Yes, uh, will
that happen? Will that stand up?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But what happens to sports at that point? And again,
remember we weren't that long ago, even in the fourteen playoff,
which I was generally not that big of a fan
of how it panned out because the same teams are
always there. But you want to know something with this,
We're getting to like a sixteen team playoffs sooner than later,
it sounds like. And the SEC and the Big ten
are guaranteed four spots, it sounds like, and will probably
(09:09):
be in solid position to get one or two more
teams in after that that are wild cards. You know,
how many like if Alabama, let's use Alabama as a
as a measuring stick here, they'll let's say they ranked
number five to start the season, how many times do
they have to lose for us not to see them
in the top sixteen against mostly SEC teams probably four
(09:30):
at least four, right, Yeah, so like a random loss
to Vanderbilt isn't gonna kill them anymore, right, Nah, it
doesn't matter. Conference championships, they don't matter. SMU shouldn't have
even played the conference championship. They almost got knocked out
of the playoffs just because they lost that game, right,
based off of.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Last year's results, Look who won the Natty. You kind
of don't want to make your conference championship the week off.
Your best route is to be good enough and then
not make it because then you get the extra bye
week and you don't have to risk play another good
team on your way there. Absolutely, yeah, and you don't
get the same reward. Yeah, I mean you used to
(10:06):
like the Big twelve champion and the ACC champion.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean like they were playing for spots. But what
are we doing here? Like the championship games are are pointless.
We have absolutely nuked this sport from what it used
to be. Or Saturdays, like you had to win every
game and because of that when you were any other team, right,
besides maybe the handful preseason that people thought had a
(10:31):
chance to go undefeated and win a national title if
you had it let's go back. Yeah, it was a
messed up system. I'm talking even before the BCS. I'm
talking when the press was making these decisions of who
was the national champion and you only played like eleven
weeks and then a conference championship game and maybe a
bowl game. Right. That was college football at its finest.
(10:51):
And I'll tell you why. And we didn't know how
good we had it. It's because every school besides the
four or five that had a shot or a prayer
of going undefeated, knew they they would never be a
champion if they weren't undefeated. Every game mattered a lot.
And in order to get to being the champion, guess what,
you had a schedule tough teams. It's where you get
the Catholics versus Convicts games, right, Notre Dame scheduling Miami
when Miami was in their heyday, Incredible college football games
(11:15):
that actually mattered at the end of the day. Non
conference games. Now these teams don't even want to cut
schedule tough non conference games.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It's a savvy move not to, because you know your
conference is going to be tough enough. And if and
if you're one of a couple now that have a
perfect position to where if you can win enough in
your conference, you're going to be in. You just need
to win like seven or eight games. Yeah, you want
the kkewalk, you want the k State route. Remember what
k State used to do. Oh yeah, they would. They
would schedule two D two, not D two but FCS.
(11:45):
They they'd put two FCS teams on their schedule.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And nobody's calling them out for because at the time,
guess what all you needed to do was win the games.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And it was and it was it was a smart
move to try to build up that. Snyder was a
really brilliant tactician that way. When he retook over Kansas
State the second time, that team, he turned them into
a bold game team right away because he made their
schedule an easy enough, winnable enough schedule, built that confidence
(12:14):
and then got them right back to where he needed.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Him to be. But they never won a national title.
Never did.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They got close once, but they never did.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But that's the thing, is just trying to keep tabs
on all that. I will wrap this show up and yeah,
they've nuked that sport. Josh Pat's out of his mind
to think that it's somehow the same on Saturdays. It
is not the same five point forty nine News Radio
eleven ten KFAB. I don't want people to think that
I care less about it. It's just a completely different sport.
The pageantry is still there, the experience that the games
(12:43):
are still there, Like it's still a great time to
go tailgate and hang out with a bunch of friends
in Lincoln or anywhere else that you're going to watch
college football. That hasn't changed. Being in the stands maybe
on a Saturday by Saturday basis that hasn't changed. But
big picture and the way that teams are constructed, and
how recruiting works, and the amount of money that has
(13:04):
gone into the media rights and the rivalries that you've lost,
mostly through conference realignment. That stuff is taken away from
the big picture of what made college football such an
amazing sport.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
When we were growing up. And I just don't know
how anybody could disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I agree, and I think that player movement has aided
that process too. It's good for them, but is it
good for the sport When you look at a guy's
stats and he's been in five different teams in five
different years.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Absolutely, I think you could maybe say that's the number
one thing that has made people a little more detached
than they were before. Just they don't know the players anymore. Anyway,
thanks for listening, We really appreciate it. We'll be back
at to tomorrow afternoon on news radio eleven to ten
KFAB
And he talks in college football, and there's a guy
(00:02):
named Josh Pat who had a take that I think
is just one of the most incredibly tone deaf things
that I think people who cover college football on a
bigger level feel. And I'll get to that in a second.
That'll be probably at about five point thirty six, five
thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This whole.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
How do I put this, this entire lexicon? I think
of conversation when it comes to how important our community relies.
I think on having stuff to rally around that isn't political,
I think is incredibly important. And on that note, college
baseball kind of fills a void here in the like
(00:46):
the May and June area here in Omaha, specifically in
the state of Nebraska. Also, Matt, did you get a
chance to see what the Nebraska baseball team was able
to do over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I did, and that was pretty cool. What a run
they went on takedown Oregon, the top seed in the tournament. However,
people are saying Oregon's already in they were kind of
ready just to get there, so maybe they weren't the
most motivated bunch, But to not just beat Oregon, but
then a couple hours later to beat a Penn State
team that needed that win. They needed it just as yeah.
(01:16):
And to get in yeah, and then to beat a
good UCLA team they shut them out too, right, Yeah,
I mean that team was steamrolling. How about a team
that people kind of rode off a while ago. McConaughey,
Mason McConaughey goes down, he's out for the year. People
are thinking, Ah, this Nebraska baseball team is not going
to do anything this year.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They were picked to finish second in the Big Ten
and it went south fast. Yeah, but yet here they
are and everything's in front of them. They made it
to the regionals, and you want to talk about how
awesome this is. That crowd was incredible on Saturday and Sunday,
especially Sunday. I was there on Saturday with my parents.
My parents are not obviously around usually here, and I
(01:56):
took them to the Penn State game and it was
beautiful out when we went there. So thanks to the
mother nature for letting things be all right for playing ball.
It was a little wet on the field, but we
were kind of in a good spot at Charles Schwap Field.
But they, I mean, how about that. That's so crazy
to me? And they're going to Chapel Hill. I'll have
(02:17):
a chance to, you know, make some noise there. Number
five seed North Carolina is going to be in the way.
They'll have to knock them off. Oklahoma and Holy Cross
are the other teams involved. Based on the way that
they were pitching and the way that they were hitting
in the Big Ten Tournament, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Think you can write them off.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You got to keep an eye on that because in
shout out to the softball team making it to the
Super Regionals, they took game one off of Tennessee, couldn't
quite finish the job. But I mean, do not forget
this is a Nebraska team that, like Jordi Ball, was
carrying the softball team. They have other good players, but
she was the engine right like they went as far
(02:59):
as she could help take them.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
This baseball team, we're.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Talking five to six to seven guys that in the
batting order that you would have to consider dangerous at
this point right now, the way that they were hitting
in the Big Ten Tournament. And then throw in a
couple of guys who were absolutely on fire. Ty Horn
was the big one, throwing eight shutout innings in the
championship game. Be on the lookout for them. Be on
the lookout.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
They're hot at the right times. At the tough draw,
I feel like UNC that's tough. Oklahoma in your bracket too,
that's tough, but why not. They're in it. They got
a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Reknew that Oklahoma rivalry this time on the diamond, and
we got.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Two chances to get a local team in Omahaw because
Creighton's in it too.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Creighton is going to be playing against Arkansas in the
Fayetteville Regional. They are the three seed, Arkansas the one seed.
Kansas is the two seed in the North Dakota State
is the four seed. These are four team brackets, and
you have to lose twice to get eliminated, so they'll
have their chance. Your odds go up drastically by winning
(03:58):
the first game. And both of our teams, Creighton and
Nebraska are three seeds, so they don't have to play
the best team right away. But you're gonna have to
beat them twice if you're gonna like at least once,
maybe twice to make it to the super regionals. So
we'll keep an eye on that, and we'll also this
week kind of break down some of the higher Seeds,
(04:19):
so we can start kind of thinking about maybe the
teams we could potentially be seeing here in Omaha.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It is five twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I got to get to a college football take that
really may irk some people. I got to play it
for you. We'll do that coming up on news Radio
eleven to ten kfab Matt, what's the number one team
in this area if you had to pick? Well, is
the number one team that people take interest in in
the entire area area? Being specific to Omaha, I would
say Omaha Lincoln. Anybody could hear me, Well, it's definitely
the Huskers, and specifically what sport football? I would agree, Well,
(04:52):
I'm going to have you play some audio from a
guy named Josh Pate, who is a college football purest
kind of guy. Not a purest necessarily in the way
that he thanks, but he just loves college football. And
he's got a show that he talks about nothing but
college football. He's just all college football all the time.
It's really his whole thing. I kind of liked him,
(05:13):
and because he seemed to be willing to stand up
to like the giant conferences and kind of speak for
the little guy and say that there were space for
the little guy out there. He also kind of likes
Iowa State, and he always works Iowa State into his content, which,
you know, me being an Iowa State fan before I
moved over here made me kind of like him.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Here he is on a show just this past weekend
talking about what college football is in all the people
that are complaining about changes, and here's his take on that.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
There's Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Let's say Michigan's in town, and let's say it's midway
through the third quarter and they're deadlocked at seventeen, and
it's fourth and one on your own thirty eight yard
line and they're opting to go for it. Clock's ticking down,
huddle breaks five four, three, crowds at full throat, Just pause,
right there, is anybody thinking about whether Ohio State had
(06:05):
ota workouts? Is anybody thinking about how much the left
hackles making You're not. So the point is the game
hasn't really been ruined at all. If that moment feels different,
If that moment is ruined, then college football has ruined itself.
Does Saturday still feel like Saturday in the fall, because
that's really the great barometer. So my answer is, yes,
(06:25):
Saturday still feels like Saturday. I think college football is
extremely resilient, like it is extremely strong. It's the redwood.
You could chop a redwood down, but you don't do
it with five or ten swings. Is it? It take
a lot to chop down a redwood, all concentrated, all
at one spot on that tree, and don't do it
because you'll get arrested. But point being takes a lot
(06:46):
to ruin college football. That's a byproduct of how great
it is. That's Josh Pate.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I understand he wants to love his sport, but I'm
going to be a bit of a pessimist here time
in here, Matt college FOOTBA feels absolutely one hundred percent
different than it did five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It has nothing to do with the fact that the
team that we root for on Saturdays isn't quite as
powerful as it was in the nineteen nineties. You want
to talk about the transfer portal, You want to talk
about the money that's coming in. You want to talk
about the conference re alignment. Can we talk about conference
re alignment for a second? Ask somebody who ask Oregon
State or Washington State who were left out of the
big conferences. Now, after the basically the money grabs from
(07:30):
the schools that ran to the Big twelve, the ACC
and the Big Ten. Out of the packed twelve, they
were left behind. Ask Washington State and Oregon State if
they feel the same about college football on Saturdays when
Alabama can lose to teams like Vanderbilt and a six
and six Oklahoma team and still have a shot at
potentially making the playoff and winning a national championship, does
(07:52):
that feel the same anymore? Here's my take, hot take,
and this is before we can get into Greg Sankee,
who's the commiss of the SEC, who along with the
Big ten trying to position themselves they see you know
what he said that this weekend, I have a bunch
of people calling me and saying why are we still
in the NC double A? Once again hinting at like
we could just start our own league. We have the
(08:13):
money deal or the media deal, we get the money
from you know, advertisers, and all of our nil is
really strong.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Why do we need the NC double A? We can
just do our own thing?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Was that not announced?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Well, they change the rules, but there, but he said,
why are we still in the NC Double A? Like
the SEC as a whole. He is suggesting they break
off and create their own thing.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That's what I'm saying, Like in twenty eight twenty nine,
like he's, he's, he's, the SEC is looking at just
completely leaving the NCAA.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Trying to trying to make it themselves. Yes, uh, will
that happen? Will that stand up?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But what happens to sports at that point? And again,
remember we weren't that long ago, even in the fourteen playoff,
which I was generally not that big of a fan
of how it panned out because the same teams are
always there. But you want to know something with this,
We're getting to like a sixteen team playoffs sooner than later,
it sounds like. And the SEC and the Big ten
are guaranteed four spots, it sounds like, and will probably
(09:09):
be in solid position to get one or two more
teams in after that that are wild cards. You know,
how many like if Alabama, let's use Alabama as a
as a measuring stick here, they'll let's say they ranked
number five to start the season, how many times do
they have to lose for us not to see them
in the top sixteen against mostly SEC teams probably four
(09:30):
at least four, right, Yeah, so like a random loss
to Vanderbilt isn't gonna kill them anymore, right, Nah, it
doesn't matter. Conference championships, they don't matter. SMU shouldn't have
even played the conference championship. They almost got knocked out
of the playoffs just because they lost that game, right,
based off of.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Last year's results, Look who won the Natty. You kind
of don't want to make your conference championship the week off.
Your best route is to be good enough and then
not make it because then you get the extra bye
week and you don't have to risk play another good
team on your way there. Absolutely, yeah, and you don't
get the same reward. Yeah, I mean you used to
(10:06):
like the Big twelve champion and the ACC champion.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean like they were playing for spots. But what
are we doing here? Like the championship games are are pointless.
We have absolutely nuked this sport from what it used
to be. Or Saturdays, like you had to win every
game and because of that when you were any other team, right,
besides maybe the handful preseason that people thought had a
(10:31):
chance to go undefeated and win a national title if
you had it let's go back. Yeah, it was a
messed up system. I'm talking even before the BCS. I'm
talking when the press was making these decisions of who
was the national champion and you only played like eleven
weeks and then a conference championship game and maybe a
bowl game. Right. That was college football at its finest.
(10:51):
And I'll tell you why. And we didn't know how
good we had it. It's because every school besides the
four or five that had a shot or a prayer
of going undefeated, knew they they would never be a
champion if they weren't undefeated. Every game mattered a lot.
And in order to get to being the champion, guess what,
you had a schedule tough teams. It's where you get
the Catholics versus Convicts games, right, Notre Dame scheduling Miami
when Miami was in their heyday, Incredible college football games
(11:15):
that actually mattered at the end of the day. Non
conference games. Now these teams don't even want to cut
schedule tough non conference games.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It's a savvy move not to, because you know your
conference is going to be tough enough. And if and
if you're one of a couple now that have a
perfect position to where if you can win enough in
your conference, you're going to be in. You just need
to win like seven or eight games. Yeah, you want
the kkewalk, you want the k State route. Remember what
k State used to do. Oh yeah, they would. They
would schedule two D two, not D two but FCS.
(11:45):
They they'd put two FCS teams on their schedule.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And nobody's calling them out for because at the time,
guess what all you needed to do was win the games.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And it was and it was it was a smart
move to try to build up that. Snyder was a
really brilliant tactician that way. When he retook over Kansas
State the second time, that team, he turned them into
a bold game team right away because he made their
schedule an easy enough, winnable enough schedule, built that confidence
(12:14):
and then got them right back to where he needed.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Him to be. But they never won a national title.
Never did.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They got close once, but they never did.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But that's the thing, is just trying to keep tabs
on all that. I will wrap this show up and yeah,
they've nuked that sport. Josh Pat's out of his mind
to think that it's somehow the same on Saturdays. It
is not the same five point forty nine News Radio
eleven ten KFAB. I don't want people to think that
I care less about it. It's just a completely different sport.
The pageantry is still there, the experience that the games
(12:43):
are still there, Like it's still a great time to
go tailgate and hang out with a bunch of friends
in Lincoln or anywhere else that you're going to watch
college football. That hasn't changed. Being in the stands maybe
on a Saturday by Saturday basis that hasn't changed. But
big picture and the way that teams are constructed, and
how recruiting works, and the amount of money that has
(13:04):
gone into the media rights and the rivalries that you've lost,
mostly through conference realignment. That stuff is taken away from
the big picture of what made college football such an
amazing sport.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
When we were growing up. And I just don't know
how anybody could disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I agree, and I think that player movement has aided
that process too. It's good for them, but is it
good for the sport When you look at a guy's
stats and he's been in five different teams in five
different years.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Absolutely, I think you could maybe say that's the number
one thing that has made people a little more detached
than they were before. Just they don't know the players anymore. Anyway,
thanks for listening, We really appreciate it. We'll be back
at to tomorrow afternoon on news radio eleven to ten
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