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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Nebraska Cornhusker football team plays tomorrow night at Minnesota.
I am excited for this game because I think that
this game could end up being a great opportunity to
get another great road win with a national television audience
for the corner Huskers. But there has been just a
speaking of clouds, a little bit of a cloud around
(00:20):
the program this week. Not necessarily a bad thunderstormy, rainy cloud,
but just like a hazy cloud where you're not quite
sure where that's coming from. Is that smog? Is it fog?
Is it Canadian wildfire smoke? We can't quite tell what
it is. And that has emanated from State College Pennsylvania
(00:41):
in the firing of their head coach, James Franklin. We
talked about it earlier this week. We spent most of
the show on Monday talking about it. That is the
Nebraska coach, Matt Ruhle a target of Penn State. The
answer is they unequivocally, He's going to be a target
whether or not he wants the job, is going to
be anybody's guest at the end of this football season.
He's from State College, he was raised there in a way,
(01:04):
he said he was born basically with a Penn State
shirt on as a baby. He said earlier this week
that you know, he's got a great relationship with their ad,
who happens to be the AD that he worked with
when he was at Temple, when he was good, when
he got his first Division one head coaching job.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That was his AD. He's got a great relationship with him. Still.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
He played at Penn State under Joe Paterno back in
the nineties. He has a history with this this school.
They're in a little bit of trouble right now, but
it's still one of those things. Have you thought about
this as a Nebraska fan, Peyton, what was the level
at least to this point here? I know we have
six games left, but what's the level from one to
(01:42):
ten of your fear that Matt Rule will leave Nebraska
to take the Penn State job.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I can't lie it being his alma mater. You think
about what you would do if you were in that situation. Okay,
so I was a coach, Bubba Boom. Now the Nebraska
Cornhusker are offering me a job to go back home
where my family lives, where my friends live, where I
grew up, in my community. It would be hard to
turn that down even.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Matter what, no matter what, it's not even about the
money at that point.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, exactly. Even if I was at a powerhouse of
a school, you know, you could argue Nebraska might end
up with a better season than Penn State when it's
all said and done. Now, there's a long way to go,
of course, six weeks, like you said, but there's so
much personal connection involved that that's home. Everybody waits to
go home.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, Sentimentality is something you just can't really put a
value on because some people are more sentimental than others.
That's not to say Matt Rule is the most sentimental
guy in the world and he's leaving no matter what.
It's also not to say that he's not sentimental at
all and doesn't really care that much, because I think
that's not true either. But what is he weighing? What
is his attempt here? And obviously all week long he's
(02:51):
heard the rumors. The first domino to drop really has
already happened today, And I'm gonna get to Matt Rule,
who was on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN, and
I have some audio from him here momentarily, but just
this hour, Indiana University the guys who have come out
(03:12):
of absolutely nowhere. They're ranked in the top five their
national championship contenders. Used to be one of the worst
schools in football in all of Division one Power football,
and they are now a player. They made the College
Football Payoff last year at eleven and one. They just
beat Oregon this week and really have made themselves a
legitimate player for the national title this year out of
(03:35):
nowhere year two of their head coach, Kirk Signetti. Everybody's saying, well,
Kurt Signetti, he could be the guy. He could be
the guy moving forward. That Penn State kind of eyeballs.
I said, I'm not so sure about that. He's sixty
four years old. He's a lot older than Matt Ruhle
or maybe some of these other potential head coaching candidates
that might be floating around out there. Well, forget about
(03:56):
Kurt Signetti. He has reached a new eight year contract
extension with Indiana. He is now one of the highest
paid coaches in all of FBS football. Average yearly salary
eleven point six million dollars a year. Wow, Indiana's foking
over eleven point six million dollars a year for a
(04:16):
football coach for a program that before last year was
an absolute joke. Within two years, they're no longer a joke.
They are in great shape to be a player for
years to come with this guy at the helm and
now eight years ninety three million dollars in total in
the contract. No chance he's going to Penn State now not.
(04:40):
Matt rule is not in that situation. But he was
on the Pat McAfee show, and I'm gonna take a break.
I have a couple of clips that I've pulled from
his appearance this afternoon on Pat McAfee's show. I will
play those for you. Is it relates to the Penn
State job opening talking about Matt Ruhle. The conversation isn't
(05:02):
about how good Nebraska is at five and one and
floating near the rankings the media rankings came out. They
are in those rankings the coaches pull they are just
a couple of spots out. If they get a win
on the road tomorrow night against Minnesota, they're very likely
to be in the top twenty five from the coaches perspective.
But instead of talking about how good the team is,
the talk this week has been, oh, Penn State fired
(05:24):
their coach. Matt Ruhle is a Penn State guy, went
to Penn State, played to Penn State, went to high
school in State College where that school is located. That's
really home for him. Would he leave Nebraska to go there?
I think blood pressures are up. I think many people
who cover Nebraska have this air of like, you know,
he's not gonna say that he's got six games at
least left to coach this year for the Huskers, but
(05:47):
I would say he's probably the favorite, not just to
get that job, but to take that job. I know
there's a lot to go in between now in the
end of the season, but he certainly is probably going
to be the number one candidate for Penn State, you
would imagine, especially considering his previous relationship with Pat Kraft,
who is the athletic director at Penn State right now.
They work together at Temple. So on the Pat McAfee
(06:08):
show today, which is an ESPN show, I've come through
a couple of different clips.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
This is Matt Ruhle speaking solely not He talked about
the team too and how well the team's playing. But
as he was being interviewed by Pat McAfee and his guys.
He was asked specifically about the Penn State rumors that
are swilling around this week, and this is what he
had to say about it.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's with my team. It's just unbridled honesty. Tell them
the truth. Tell me exactly the truth, and don't don't
be some because they'll know. And secondly, like just out there,
like you know, this is it, this is part of it.
Like it's better than when I was in Carolina and
they were chanting to fire me. Right being on a
hot seasons, so having other schools maybe be interested in
(06:51):
you is is critic cool. And but I don't do
that during the season. I don't mess around with that.
I'll play that. And at the same time, this is
not a this is not a jumping off job. This
is a destination job. This is one of the greatest
places in the world. This is a town of three
hundred thousand people. This is some everyone says like Lincoln.
It's three hundred thousand people here in Lincoln, Like, I
can do whatever I want here. I have a great
young team, the youngest team in the Big ten. Think
(07:13):
about how good will be next year. Now I'm not
thinking about next year, but where we are right now,
we're learning, learning, learning, think about where we're going to
go with Dylan and all these guys. So I refuse
to be distracted. At the same time, it's when that's
you're Alma mater, you have to show it love and
respect and and I love Pat Krapt. They'll find the
right coach for them, whoever that is. But like, this
(07:33):
is a destination job. That should be a national bully,
that should be a beast, and I think we'll make
our way to doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And it's good to hear him say it like that. Again.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I wonder as much as I want everybody to, you know,
take this, and I think he means what he says.
Understand that there have been coaches for decades who have
been candidates at other jobs while they're currently at a
single position, and they've even been more adamant about wanting
to stay at the job or saying that they're gonna
stay at the job that they have right now, and
then the season ends, they re evaluate themselves and then
(08:04):
they go to the job they said they wouldn't take.
I'm not telling you that's what he's gonna do. I'm
saying that is probably is a good of an endorsement
about what he thinks is happening in Lincoln and at
Nebraska as anything. You know, he's not gonna come out
and say I'm not taking that job, because I'm sure
even if he's thought about it, and he even knows
(08:25):
in his head he wants that job. He knows he's
got at least six games left to as the Nebraska
head coach. He wants to finish this as strong as
possible for this team, for the fan base, but also
for himself because that will put him in great position
to get a huge contract from Penn State if he
really does want that job. If he stumbles and stumbles
down the stretch, and the Huskers end up losing four
games this year, go three and three down the stretch,
(08:47):
that'll be somewhat disappointing for I think a lot of
the fans and maybe even Penn State, and they might
be saying, maybe we don't want to offer him the job.
So he's got every reason to try to finish this
season strong one way or the other. He did finish
this conversation with Pat McAfee and his guys with this,
and I think this was important to hear too.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
That's you know, it's funny. For me, I've always the
three places I've been well, not the Carolina with other
the through college and now we've spent a couple of
years to build the build the culture up, and get
the football right, and then I've always kind of left afterwards.
And so that's why for me, you know, I'm like,
I'm like, I'm I'm going all in on this place,
like where we can make this whatever we want.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And that is as good of an endorsement as you
could possibly think of if you're a Husker fan.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And he's right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He has not lasted more than three years in any
one place, and not because he was fired.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
In college. He lost his job at the Carolina Panthers
after a few years.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
At Temple built the football program in the culture up
for two years and then all of a sudden, by
year four he didn't have a year four, Baylor came calling,
the Big Twelve came calling, and he took that job.
Same thing happened a couple of great, you know years
to kind of build the culture, and then that third
year boom to the Big Twelve championship game, and all
(10:05):
of a sudden, every major powerhouse program that had a
job opening in NFL teams. We're interested in him being
the guy. He wanted to try the NFL thing out rightly,
so had the opportunity to go, he did. He checked
it out. It did not work out. He is far
from the only collegiate head coach in any sport to
try the professional ranks and it not work out so well.
(10:28):
But you know, he took a year off, recovered, regrouped.
The Nebraska job opens up, he takes that it was
a perfect fit for him and for the school. I
think the way that he's handled it, the way that
he's recruited, the Dylan Royola aspect, He's got so many
good guys in so many different key positions. Nebraska has
(10:48):
found a way to win a couple of really tight games.
I have no reason to think that he doesn't actually
mean what he says. There the caveat that I would
just mention so we don't get ourselves too excited. And yes,
Kurt Signetti out he is the Indiana coach. If you
missed it earlier this half hour, just like less than
a half hour ago, he signed a large, gigantic extension
(11:12):
that'll make him the head coach through his early seventies
to be the head coach in Indiana and keep them
nationally relevant in the Big Ten and he'll get paid
it to the tune of something like eleven point six
million dollars a year. So that was another name that
was floating around as a possibility for Penn State.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He's off the table.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Matt Rules certainly is gonna be the top dog here,
but there's a little less competition for him, knowing that
Kurt Signetti is definitely not interested in that job. So
what does Nebraska do for the last six weeks of
the season. It all starts tomorrow night at Minnesota. You
gotta get a win there. You have to get a
win if you're gonna like set yourself up for the
(11:50):
rest of the season and it could be a really
special year. There are so many teams with only one
loss in conference play, and Minnesota is one of them,
Northwestern is one of them, usc is one of them,
Ucla is one of them, and Iowa is one of them.
Five of the last six opponents are all in that mix.
Right with Nebraska, they can absolutely control their own destiny
to try to work their way toward a Big Ten
championship game appearance.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But even then, maybe making
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The college football playoff not out of the realm of possibility,
and I am absolutely excited to see what takes place
from now moving forward,
The Nebraska Cornhusker football team plays tomorrow night at Minnesota.
I am excited for this game because I think that
this game could end up being a great opportunity to
get another great road win with a national television audience
for the corner Huskers. But there has been just a
speaking of clouds, a little bit of a cloud around
(00:20):
the program this week. Not necessarily a bad thunderstormy, rainy cloud,
but just like a hazy cloud where you're not quite
sure where that's coming from. Is that smog? Is it fog?
Is it Canadian wildfire smoke? We can't quite tell what
it is. And that has emanated from State College Pennsylvania
(00:41):
in the firing of their head coach, James Franklin. We
talked about it earlier this week. We spent most of
the show on Monday talking about it. That is the
Nebraska coach, Matt Ruhle a target of Penn State. The
answer is they unequivocally, He's going to be a target
whether or not he wants the job, is going to
be anybody's guest at the end of this football season.
He's from State College, he was raised there in a way,
(01:04):
he said he was born basically with a Penn State
shirt on as a baby. He said earlier this week
that you know, he's got a great relationship with their ad,
who happens to be the AD that he worked with
when he was at Temple, when he was good, when
he got his first Division one head coaching job.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That was his AD. He's got a great relationship with him. Still.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
He played at Penn State under Joe Paterno back in
the nineties. He has a history with this this school.
They're in a little bit of trouble right now, but
it's still one of those things. Have you thought about
this as a Nebraska fan, Peyton, what was the level
at least to this point here? I know we have
six games left, but what's the level from one to
(01:42):
ten of your fear that Matt Rule will leave Nebraska
to take the Penn State job.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I can't lie it being his alma mater. You think
about what you would do if you were in that situation. Okay,
so I was a coach, Bubba Boom. Now the Nebraska
Cornhusker are offering me a job to go back home
where my family lives, where my friends live, where I
grew up, in my community. It would be hard to
turn that down even.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Matter what, no matter what, it's not even about the
money at that point.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, exactly. Even if I was at a powerhouse of
a school, you know, you could argue Nebraska might end
up with a better season than Penn State when it's
all said and done. Now, there's a long way to go,
of course, six weeks, like you said, but there's so
much personal connection involved that that's home. Everybody waits to
go home.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, Sentimentality is something you just can't really put a
value on because some people are more sentimental than others.
That's not to say Matt Rule is the most sentimental
guy in the world and he's leaving no matter what.
It's also not to say that he's not sentimental at
all and doesn't really care that much, because I think
that's not true either. But what is he weighing? What
is his attempt here? And obviously all week long he's
(02:51):
heard the rumors. The first domino to drop really has
already happened today, And I'm gonna get to Matt Rule,
who was on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN, and
I have some audio from him here momentarily, but just
this hour, Indiana University the guys who have come out
(03:12):
of absolutely nowhere. They're ranked in the top five their
national championship contenders. Used to be one of the worst
schools in football in all of Division one Power football,
and they are now a player. They made the College
Football Payoff last year at eleven and one. They just
beat Oregon this week and really have made themselves a
legitimate player for the national title this year out of
(03:35):
nowhere year two of their head coach, Kirk Signetti. Everybody's saying, well,
Kurt Signetti, he could be the guy. He could be
the guy moving forward. That Penn State kind of eyeballs.
I said, I'm not so sure about that. He's sixty
four years old. He's a lot older than Matt Ruhle
or maybe some of these other potential head coaching candidates
that might be floating around out there. Well, forget about
(03:56):
Kurt Signetti. He has reached a new eight year contract
extension with Indiana. He is now one of the highest
paid coaches in all of FBS football. Average yearly salary
eleven point six million dollars a year. Wow, Indiana's foking
over eleven point six million dollars a year for a
(04:16):
football coach for a program that before last year was
an absolute joke. Within two years, they're no longer a joke.
They are in great shape to be a player for
years to come with this guy at the helm and
now eight years ninety three million dollars in total in
the contract. No chance he's going to Penn State now not.
(04:40):
Matt rule is not in that situation. But he was
on the Pat McAfee show, and I'm gonna take a break.
I have a couple of clips that I've pulled from
his appearance this afternoon on Pat McAfee's show. I will
play those for you. Is it relates to the Penn
State job opening talking about Matt Ruhle. The conversation isn't
(05:02):
about how good Nebraska is at five and one and
floating near the rankings the media rankings came out. They
are in those rankings the coaches pull they are just
a couple of spots out. If they get a win
on the road tomorrow night against Minnesota, they're very likely
to be in the top twenty five from the coaches perspective.
But instead of talking about how good the team is,
the talk this week has been, oh, Penn State fired
(05:24):
their coach. Matt Ruhle is a Penn State guy, went
to Penn State, played to Penn State, went to high
school in State College where that school is located. That's
really home for him. Would he leave Nebraska to go there?
I think blood pressures are up. I think many people
who cover Nebraska have this air of like, you know,
he's not gonna say that he's got six games at
least left to coach this year for the Huskers, but
(05:47):
I would say he's probably the favorite, not just to
get that job, but to take that job. I know
there's a lot to go in between now in the
end of the season, but he certainly is probably going
to be the number one candidate for Penn State, you
would imagine, especially considering his previous relationship with Pat Kraft,
who is the athletic director at Penn State right now.
They work together at Temple. So on the Pat McAfee
(06:08):
show today, which is an ESPN show, I've come through
a couple of different clips.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
This is Matt Ruhle speaking solely not He talked about
the team too and how well the team's playing. But
as he was being interviewed by Pat McAfee and his guys.
He was asked specifically about the Penn State rumors that
are swilling around this week, and this is what he
had to say about it.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's with my team. It's just unbridled honesty. Tell them
the truth. Tell me exactly the truth, and don't don't
be some because they'll know. And secondly, like just out there,
like you know, this is it, this is part of it.
Like it's better than when I was in Carolina and
they were chanting to fire me. Right being on a
hot seasons, so having other schools maybe be interested in
(06:51):
you is is critic cool. And but I don't do
that during the season. I don't mess around with that.
I'll play that. And at the same time, this is
not a this is not a jumping off job. This
is a destination job. This is one of the greatest
places in the world. This is a town of three
hundred thousand people. This is some everyone says like Lincoln.
It's three hundred thousand people here in Lincoln, Like, I
can do whatever I want here. I have a great
young team, the youngest team in the Big ten. Think
(07:13):
about how good will be next year. Now I'm not
thinking about next year, but where we are right now,
we're learning, learning, learning, think about where we're going to
go with Dylan and all these guys. So I refuse
to be distracted. At the same time, it's when that's
you're Alma mater, you have to show it love and
respect and and I love Pat Krapt. They'll find the
right coach for them, whoever that is. But like, this
(07:33):
is a destination job. That should be a national bully,
that should be a beast, and I think we'll make
our way to doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And it's good to hear him say it like that. Again.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I wonder as much as I want everybody to, you know,
take this, and I think he means what he says.
Understand that there have been coaches for decades who have
been candidates at other jobs while they're currently at a
single position, and they've even been more adamant about wanting
to stay at the job or saying that they're gonna
stay at the job that they have right now, and
then the season ends, they re evaluate themselves and then
(08:04):
they go to the job they said they wouldn't take.
I'm not telling you that's what he's gonna do. I'm
saying that is probably is a good of an endorsement
about what he thinks is happening in Lincoln and at
Nebraska as anything. You know, he's not gonna come out
and say I'm not taking that job, because I'm sure
even if he's thought about it, and he even knows
(08:25):
in his head he wants that job. He knows he's
got at least six games left to as the Nebraska
head coach. He wants to finish this as strong as
possible for this team, for the fan base, but also
for himself because that will put him in great position
to get a huge contract from Penn State if he
really does want that job. If he stumbles and stumbles
down the stretch, and the Huskers end up losing four
games this year, go three and three down the stretch,
(08:47):
that'll be somewhat disappointing for I think a lot of
the fans and maybe even Penn State, and they might
be saying, maybe we don't want to offer him the job.
So he's got every reason to try to finish this
season strong one way or the other. He did finish
this conversation with Pat McAfee and his guys with this,
and I think this was important to hear too.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
That's you know, it's funny. For me, I've always the
three places I've been well, not the Carolina with other
the through college and now we've spent a couple of
years to build the build the culture up, and get
the football right, and then I've always kind of left afterwards.
And so that's why for me, you know, I'm like,
I'm like, I'm I'm going all in on this place,
like where we can make this whatever we want.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And that is as good of an endorsement as you
could possibly think of if you're a Husker fan.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And he's right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He has not lasted more than three years in any
one place, and not because he was fired.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
In college. He lost his job at the Carolina Panthers
after a few years.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
At Temple built the football program in the culture up
for two years and then all of a sudden, by
year four he didn't have a year four, Baylor came calling,
the Big Twelve came calling, and he took that job.
Same thing happened a couple of great, you know years
to kind of build the culture, and then that third
year boom to the Big Twelve championship game, and all
(10:05):
of a sudden, every major powerhouse program that had a
job opening in NFL teams. We're interested in him being
the guy. He wanted to try the NFL thing out rightly,
so had the opportunity to go, he did. He checked
it out. It did not work out. He is far
from the only collegiate head coach in any sport to
try the professional ranks and it not work out so well.
(10:28):
But you know, he took a year off, recovered, regrouped.
The Nebraska job opens up, he takes that it was
a perfect fit for him and for the school. I
think the way that he's handled it, the way that
he's recruited, the Dylan Royola aspect, He's got so many
good guys in so many different key positions. Nebraska has
(10:48):
found a way to win a couple of really tight games.
I have no reason to think that he doesn't actually
mean what he says. There the caveat that I would
just mention so we don't get ourselves too excited. And yes,
Kurt Signetti out he is the Indiana coach. If you
missed it earlier this half hour, just like less than
a half hour ago, he signed a large, gigantic extension
(11:12):
that'll make him the head coach through his early seventies
to be the head coach in Indiana and keep them
nationally relevant in the Big Ten and he'll get paid
it to the tune of something like eleven point six
million dollars a year. So that was another name that
was floating around as a possibility for Penn State.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
He's off the table.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Matt Rules certainly is gonna be the top dog here,
but there's a little less competition for him, knowing that
Kurt Signetti is definitely not interested in that job. So
what does Nebraska do for the last six weeks of
the season. It all starts tomorrow night at Minnesota. You
gotta get a win there. You have to get a
win if you're gonna like set yourself up for the
(11:50):
rest of the season and it could be a really
special year. There are so many teams with only one
loss in conference play, and Minnesota is one of them,
Northwestern is one of them, usc is one of them,
Ucla is one of them, and Iowa is one of them.
Five of the last six opponents are all in that mix.
Right with Nebraska, they can absolutely control their own destiny
to try to work their way toward a Big Ten
championship game appearance.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But even then, maybe making
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The college football playoff not out of the realm of possibility,
and I am absolutely excited to see what takes place
from now moving forward,
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