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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we go to sports Breeve. Now one more Husker
(00:02):
Buzz edition. But Sean Callahan live like Rosie all right.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So I'm thinking, you know, Seana, if you just made
a commitment to one thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars,
if you'd fielded that punt, you would have been celebrated
and carried off the field on their shoulders.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I you know, it was a crazy day to the
point where the Huskers dot Com handled turn into barstools sports.
I think I'm the first person ever to get a
public rose from a state school university handled bols. But
it was, you know, it was a lot of fun.
We took part in the media challenge. All had a
(00:37):
chance to catch a punt. I had to go first,
and I'll tell you the wind. It circles as you
know my ball. You know, we were watching where they
were landing and it moved, you know, to the direction
four or five more yards from where we were standing. Yeah,
exciteds And of course I didn't give my hands on
the first one, but luckily I came down the second one.
(01:00):
But yeah, they they they had fun at my expense,
But it was it was an interesting day in general,
I mean in the stadium. I just don't know if
we'll see something like that ever. Again, As Simple wrote
in his column Sunday, it was a disgrace at times
to the old Temple.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, sure was. Yeah, Well I wanted to ask you
about that having having experienced it. Now, do you think
there'll be something to celebrate Husker football but not this
going forward? Or or what's what's your take?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, Troy Dannen had some interesting comments to us afterwards,
and he said, number one, they would he wants to
push for playing a scrimmage game with another team, and
and the key word is revenue. If there's a way
to do this to create additional revenue, that's why they
will do it. And as we know, everyone needs money now.
(01:54):
And if if you could find another three four five
six million dollars to play us for scrimmage game, that
goes a long way towards that twenty and a half million.
And that's what these ads are thinking. So I do
think there is going to be more of a push
for this as we hit to those off season agenda
rule type discussions. And you know another thing too for
(02:16):
spring football is can will the roster? Can what will
the roster cat be is Danen would like to see
there not be a roster cap. Let schools make their
own decisions. Keep the money to what the money is,
but let schools decide that they want to have walk
ons or not. And if you do that, then doing
a spring form of spring ball like we used to
know it in terms of spring game is not that
(02:37):
hard to do. But if you cut it down to
one hundred and five and you don't have all those
players on campus yet, that really does change what you
can do in the spring in terms of the numbers
that you're going to have available.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What is the excuse me, Rosie, please go ahead, sat Well,
I'm just cherry us in this house versus NC double
a deal which has not been improved yet. What is
the point of putting a number on every school's roster
of one hundred and five? What is Who the hell
are they to tell me University of Nebraska, for example,
that I can't have one hundred and fifty if I
(03:10):
want them.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I think they're afraid schools, especially in football, will
use it to get more than eighty five scholarship level
players like Nebraska. Right now, if you do account, there's
actually about one hundred players that are scholarship players on
the roster because of nil but you can't go much
more than that anyway. You can only take one hundred
and fifteen players into training camp. So my thought all
(03:34):
along is, you know who cares? I mean, not all
those players can be in your training camp. And I
think they were trying to make it where the bigger
schools couldn't hoard an additional amount of players and obviously
have to pay for these players. I think they're trying
to do it to keep costs down because of the
cost of what the rep share is. I mean, even
(03:54):
if you're just a true walk on, there is an
exorbitant amount of cost for a player at the University
of Nebraska to feed them, house them, you know, and
all the academic resources in all all the equipment and
things that you need. So I think there were some
budget thoughts when they came up with this one oh five,
But the judge clearly doesn't like that, and they're gonna
(04:16):
have to come up with a new settlement for what
the roster limits are going to be.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, that was promoted by the universities as a form
of cost containment. If they have to start paying them,
then we're going to limit the number of people that
we're going to have in the program on the field
or on practice field. Now, coaches, of course want more people,
not all coaches, but Matt Rule is one of these
guys that believes, like Tom Osburn, that the bigger the number,
(04:41):
the better your chances of finding somebody who could turn
into a player who started as a walk on, an
unheralded player. I still struggle, honestly, Sean, with the revenue question.
Nebraska Athletics is going to take in over two hundred
and twenty million dollars in revenue this year.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Now, I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Who's budgeting down there, and I don't know what they're
spending money on, but if you just do a thumbnail
on expenses, where is it going? Where is it all going?
And to suggest that we need and I'm not suggesting
what you're saying is wrong, because it's true, that's what
they're thinking. To suggest that we have to have four
million dollars in additional revenue to justify a spring game,
(05:21):
it's hard for me to believe, and it's hard for
me to process that as a fan. Where is the
performance audit when have they committed to a performance audit
of the athletic program so they can share with the
fans that this is what we spend on and this
is where it goes, and this is the cost associated
(05:44):
with it, and that's why we need X, Y, and Z.
There's never been a performance audit done on that athletic.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Department public well.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And the reality is there is going to be cuts
made at schools everywhere, probably when these fiscal calendars turn,
because they have to for this additional twenty eight just
coming up with twenty and a half million more dollars,
and that number is going to grow every year. That's
a huge jump in every school everywhere has to scramble
to figure out how to find that money that they
(06:12):
weren't paying this previous fiscal year.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, in the case of the Power, the Power Conferences,
the SEC and the Big Ten, the money is there.
It's in the television revenues which are astoundingly high and
going higher every year. They aren't counting what they have
in their endowments, which is significant. Nebraska has a huge
endowment for athletics. But to me, just a little transparency,
(06:36):
because the spring game matters to fans. Look at the
volleyball add twice the number of people at the volleyball
match than we're at the stadium on Saturday, because it
was a real match against Kansas.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hey, Sean, just before we run quickly here to the
extent that there is any downtime for major college football.
What's the schedule like now between now and fall camp?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, Finals week is next week, and then the players
will get a week or two off in May. Then
they'll come up and start working out right away around
Memorial Day or a week out a few days after
a Memorial Day, and recruiting will be really important. In June.
They have about thirty official visitors they'll host over three
weekends in June, big ten media days. Is that third
(07:18):
week in it's in Las Vegas this year, guys, on
that third week in July, and then they'll get going.
I mean it's usually the you know, that last weekend
in July is when when things get kicked off and
we'll be in Arrowhead Stadium before you know it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, we'll talk to you in July for sure, and
whenever news breaks. Of course, over the summer, Sean, thanks,
they have a good summer.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Thanks, guys,
Where we go to sports Breeve. Now one more Husker
(00:02):
Buzz edition. But Sean Callahan live like Rosie all right.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So I'm thinking, you know, Seana, if you just made
a commitment to one thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars,
if you'd fielded that punt, you would have been celebrated
and carried off the field on their shoulders.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I you know, it was a crazy day to the
point where the Huskers dot Com handled turn into barstools sports.
I think I'm the first person ever to get a
public rose from a state school university handled bols. But
it was, you know, it was a lot of fun.
We took part in the media challenge. All had a
(00:37):
chance to catch a punt. I had to go first,
and I'll tell you the wind. It circles as you
know my ball. You know, we were watching where they
were landing and it moved, you know, to the direction
four or five more yards from where we were standing. Yeah,
exciteds And of course I didn't give my hands on
the first one, but luckily I came down the second one.
(01:00):
But yeah, they they they had fun at my expense,
But it was it was an interesting day in general,
I mean in the stadium. I just don't know if
we'll see something like that ever. Again, As Simple wrote
in his column Sunday, it was a disgrace at times
to the old Temple.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, sure was. Yeah, Well I wanted to ask you
about that having having experienced it. Now, do you think
there'll be something to celebrate Husker football but not this
going forward? Or or what's what's your take?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, Troy Dannen had some interesting comments to us afterwards,
and he said, number one, they would he wants to
push for playing a scrimmage game with another team, and
and the key word is revenue. If there's a way
to do this to create additional revenue, that's why they
will do it. And as we know, everyone needs money now.
(01:54):
And if if you could find another three four five
six million dollars to play us for scrimmage game, that
goes a long way towards that twenty and a half million.
And that's what these ads are thinking. So I do
think there is going to be more of a push
for this as we hit to those off season agenda
rule type discussions. And you know another thing too for
(02:16):
spring football is can will the roster? Can what will
the roster cat be is Danen would like to see
there not be a roster cap. Let schools make their
own decisions. Keep the money to what the money is,
but let schools decide that they want to have walk
ons or not. And if you do that, then doing
a spring form of spring ball like we used to
know it in terms of spring game is not that
(02:37):
hard to do. But if you cut it down to
one hundred and five and you don't have all those
players on campus yet, that really does change what you
can do in the spring in terms of the numbers
that you're going to have available.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What is the excuse me, Rosie, please go ahead, sat Well,
I'm just cherry us in this house versus NC double
a deal which has not been improved yet. What is
the point of putting a number on every school's roster
of one hundred and five? What is Who the hell
are they to tell me University of Nebraska, for example,
that I can't have one hundred and fifty if I
(03:10):
want them.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I think they're afraid schools, especially in football, will
use it to get more than eighty five scholarship level
players like Nebraska. Right now, if you do account, there's
actually about one hundred players that are scholarship players on
the roster because of nil but you can't go much
more than that anyway. You can only take one hundred
and fifteen players into training camp. So my thought all
(03:34):
along is, you know who cares? I mean, not all
those players can be in your training camp. And I
think they were trying to make it where the bigger
schools couldn't hoard an additional amount of players and obviously
have to pay for these players. I think they're trying
to do it to keep costs down because of the
cost of what the rep share is. I mean, even
(03:54):
if you're just a true walk on, there is an
exorbitant amount of cost for a player at the University
of Nebraska to feed them, house them, you know, and
all the academic resources in all all the equipment and
things that you need. So I think there were some
budget thoughts when they came up with this one oh five,
But the judge clearly doesn't like that, and they're gonna
(04:16):
have to come up with a new settlement for what
the roster limits are going to be.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, that was promoted by the universities as a form
of cost containment. If they have to start paying them,
then we're going to limit the number of people that
we're going to have in the program on the field
or on practice field. Now, coaches, of course want more people,
not all coaches, but Matt Rule is one of these
guys that believes, like Tom Osburn, that the bigger the number,
(04:41):
the better your chances of finding somebody who could turn
into a player who started as a walk on, an
unheralded player. I still struggle, honestly, Sean, with the revenue question.
Nebraska Athletics is going to take in over two hundred
and twenty million dollars in revenue this year.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Now, I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Who's budgeting down there, and I don't know what they're
spending money on, but if you just do a thumbnail
on expenses, where is it going? Where is it all going?
And to suggest that we need and I'm not suggesting
what you're saying is wrong, because it's true, that's what
they're thinking. To suggest that we have to have four
million dollars in additional revenue to justify a spring game,
(05:21):
it's hard for me to believe, and it's hard for
me to process that as a fan. Where is the
performance audit when have they committed to a performance audit
of the athletic program so they can share with the
fans that this is what we spend on and this
is where it goes, and this is the cost associated
(05:44):
with it, and that's why we need X, Y, and Z.
There's never been a performance audit done on that athletic.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Department public well.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And the reality is there is going to be cuts
made at schools everywhere, probably when these fiscal calendars turn,
because they have to for this additional twenty eight just
coming up with twenty and a half million more dollars,
and that number is going to grow every year. That's
a huge jump in every school everywhere has to scramble
to figure out how to find that money that they
(06:12):
weren't paying this previous fiscal year.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, in the case of the Power, the Power Conferences,
the SEC and the Big Ten, the money is there.
It's in the television revenues which are astoundingly high and
going higher every year. They aren't counting what they have
in their endowments, which is significant. Nebraska has a huge
endowment for athletics. But to me, just a little transparency,
(06:36):
because the spring game matters to fans. Look at the
volleyball add twice the number of people at the volleyball
match than we're at the stadium on Saturday, because it
was a real match against Kansas.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hey, Sean, just before we run quickly here to the
extent that there is any downtime for major college football.
What's the schedule like now between now and fall camp?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, Finals week is next week, and then the players
will get a week or two off in May. Then
they'll come up and start working out right away around
Memorial Day or a week out a few days after
a Memorial Day, and recruiting will be really important. In June.
They have about thirty official visitors they'll host over three
weekends in June, big ten media days. Is that third
(07:18):
week in it's in Las Vegas this year, guys, on
that third week in July, and then they'll get going.
I mean it's usually the you know, that last weekend
in July is when when things get kicked off and
we'll be in Arrowhead Stadium before you know it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, we'll talk to you in July for sure, and
whenever news breaks. Of course, over the summer, Sean, thanks,
they have a good summer.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Thanks, guys,
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