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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Special Husker Buzz edition with Sean Callahan. Our Husker Insider
Life from Big Ten Media is in Vegas, Rosie, I'd just.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Stay out of the game room and just you focus
on the job you're supposed to do. Or did you
get distracted by Vegas?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, it's been an interesting event out here, but head
him back home today. You know, the Big Ten scheduled
the event in Vegas this year mainly do because they
couldn't get in Indianapolis lined up. They kind of waited
and there was already a conference lined up in Indianapolis
this year. They considered going back to Chicago, and then
(00:36):
Las Vegas has made a lot of sense. So here
we are and I don't know if we'll be back
out here again in the future, but you know, everybody,
as far as it's the logistics of the event, the setup,
I mean, it was great. You know, honestly for us,
it was easier a fly to Vegas than going to
Indy because Indy's not a direct flight out of Omaha
(00:57):
or Lincoln and you have to connect and you know,
it's not it's not as easy to get there for
for so you know, getting here it was it was
a two and a half hour flight. We're here and
you know the time zone, you know the two hours difference.
It's not that big of a deal. Yeah, so I
thought the event for for the first year I here
went fine.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay, so your overall impressions of Nebraska, what the coach
rule had to say. He is getting a little bit
of pushback back home, as you might imagine from some
of the remarks. But what what did you deduct Sean
from what he had to say in the players.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, I mean his biggest comment, Yesterda obviously was the statement,
you know, defending what Scott Frost had to say two
weeks ago, Big ten, Big twelve media days were he
said that the Nebraska job, you know, wasn't a good
job in so many words, and rolled back that up
and gave his opinion about the things that when he
(01:50):
got here they had to get kind of figured out
as far as just the facilities and you know, just
some of the other n il elements of what he
had to do. But I mean, you sense the confidence
and rule in this team in year three where it's
at knowing you know, his success as a head coach
and a year three Don Rooa no surprise kind of
(02:12):
had a big entrance, and he had as big of
an interview group around him as anybody in the conference.
I mean, Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State was here too,
but Delraollah was a big deal here. I mean there
were people all around Dealan Roola. I mean he had
more people around him for his session than some of
the other big ten head coaches had, So I thought
(02:33):
he was obviously, you know, a big storyline here in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What did you make of rules remarks about the Nebraska job?
And this has ruffled a lot of Husker feathers, as
you might imagine. Scott Sean oh because this is not
what we've believed for two generations, three generations about our program,
which has been on the cutting edge. And when he
talked about NIL in facilities, I was particularly lost because
(02:58):
I take you to an August twenty twenty one story
in the Omaha World Herald after ABM was created Athletes
Branding and Marketing, which was one of the first collectives
in the country. This is just days after the Supreme
Court decision allowing athletes to be paid for their name, image,
and likeness, and Nebraska said we are on the cutting
edge of the NIL movement through our partnership with ABM
(03:19):
and Open Doors, the Lincoln based company specializing in athletes endorsements,
and Adrian Martinez had a deal, and lexisun had a deal,
and the McGowan's had deals, and we were also in
the process of building the one hundred and sixty five
million dollar palace known as the tom Osburn Center. So
what did he mean by Nebraska was behind When he
got here in NIL and facilities, I.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Think he met more the leadership, I mean NIL. Yes,
they launched the very first collective, but that was on
its own. I mean the university was not ever really
behind ABM. Trev Albertson the administration, you know, want to
fire Scott for us who really weren't behind Scott Fross
that point? And they they didn't really, you know, they
weren't on the same page with the initial collectives at
(04:04):
the start. It wasn't really until the Pede stepped up
and created eighteen ninety that you saw things go. And
it's not for them, as Matt Ruhle said yesterday, they
would be in a world of trouble. Troy dan And
has made a statement too, But treub Outbarts previously did
not really even support the peds. The peds wanted to
start their own collective, and trev initially tried to start
(04:25):
a competing collective that really never got off the ground
at that point called the Big Red Collaborative. So that
there were a lot of just political things with Nil
early on that held it back for Nebraska because they
just couldn't get on the same pages. So that, but
I think with the facilities, he was mainly talking about this,
you know, it took a while to get things done
(04:46):
and built with COVID, you know, you know, he said
they're going to get the new grass fields in this
year and some other things done, and that there were
forty nine major knee injuries the previous four years before
he got here, and he thought a lot of that
to do with some of the services and some of
the player treatment things. But now at the training table
(05:08):
and just some of the other issues that they've been
able to address, Like he really feels like this is
as good of a job as there is now in
the country.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Our Husker insider Sean Callahan here just before we run
talk a little football. What he what did you get
from I noticed the coach rules said everybody everybody wants
to do this and they want to do that, but
that's all talk. You actually, I have to do it
on the field. But he is very bullish on this
(05:37):
Husker season, right oh.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I mean, you can tell he likes this team. But
the big thing is he's tried to limit the off
season hype. You're not seeing like the YouTube videos and
stories and shows coming out. And he made mention that
they had a movie created called Chasing Three after their
season last year. He chose not to release the movie
(06:02):
because he just didn't want people making a huge deal
and asking questions about the movie. So, you know, you
get the sense that he likes his team, but he's
also being very careful about overdoing it. He wants he
wants them to understand and and and just take care
of the business now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
All right, Sean, thanks live there in Vegas and keeping
us up to speed on Big ten media days.
Special Husker Buzz edition with Sean Callahan. Our Husker Insider
Life from Big Ten Media is in Vegas, Rosie, I'd just.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Stay out of the game room and just you focus
on the job you're supposed to do. Or did you
get distracted by Vegas?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, it's been an interesting event out here, but head
him back home today. You know, the Big Ten scheduled
the event in Vegas this year mainly do because they
couldn't get in Indianapolis lined up. They kind of waited
and there was already a conference lined up in Indianapolis
this year. They considered going back to Chicago, and then
(00:36):
Las Vegas has made a lot of sense. So here
we are and I don't know if we'll be back
out here again in the future, but you know, everybody,
as far as it's the logistics of the event, the setup,
I mean, it was great. You know, honestly for us,
it was easier a fly to Vegas than going to
Indy because Indy's not a direct flight out of Omaha
(00:57):
or Lincoln and you have to connect and you know,
it's not it's not as easy to get there for
for so you know, getting here it was it was
a two and a half hour flight. We're here and
you know the time zone, you know the two hours difference.
It's not that big of a deal. Yeah, so I
thought the event for for the first year I here
went fine.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay, so your overall impressions of Nebraska, what the coach
rule had to say. He is getting a little bit
of pushback back home, as you might imagine from some
of the remarks. But what what did you deduct Sean
from what he had to say in the players.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, I mean his biggest comment, Yesterda obviously was the statement,
you know, defending what Scott Frost had to say two
weeks ago, Big ten, Big twelve media days were he
said that the Nebraska job, you know, wasn't a good
job in so many words, and rolled back that up
and gave his opinion about the things that when he
(01:50):
got here they had to get kind of figured out
as far as just the facilities and you know, just
some of the other n il elements of what he
had to do. But I mean, you sense the confidence
and rule in this team in year three where it's
at knowing you know, his success as a head coach
and a year three Don Rooa no surprise kind of
(02:12):
had a big entrance, and he had as big of
an interview group around him as anybody in the conference.
I mean, Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State was here too,
but Delraollah was a big deal here. I mean there
were people all around Dealan Roola. I mean he had
more people around him for his session than some of
the other big ten head coaches had, So I thought
(02:33):
he was obviously, you know, a big storyline here in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What did you make of rules remarks about the Nebraska job?
And this has ruffled a lot of Husker feathers, as
you might imagine. Scott Sean oh because this is not
what we've believed for two generations, three generations about our program,
which has been on the cutting edge. And when he
talked about NIL in facilities, I was particularly lost because
(02:58):
I take you to an August twenty twenty one story
in the Omaha World Herald after ABM was created Athletes
Branding and Marketing, which was one of the first collectives
in the country. This is just days after the Supreme
Court decision allowing athletes to be paid for their name, image,
and likeness, and Nebraska said we are on the cutting
edge of the NIL movement through our partnership with ABM
(03:19):
and Open Doors, the Lincoln based company specializing in athletes endorsements,
and Adrian Martinez had a deal, and lexisun had a deal,
and the McGowan's had deals, and we were also in
the process of building the one hundred and sixty five
million dollar palace known as the tom Osburn Center. So
what did he mean by Nebraska was behind When he
got here in NIL and facilities, I.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Think he met more the leadership, I mean NIL. Yes,
they launched the very first collective, but that was on
its own. I mean the university was not ever really
behind ABM. Trev Albertson the administration, you know, want to
fire Scott for us who really weren't behind Scott Fross
that point? And they they didn't really, you know, they
weren't on the same page with the initial collectives at
(04:04):
the start. It wasn't really until the Pede stepped up
and created eighteen ninety that you saw things go. And
it's not for them, as Matt Ruhle said yesterday, they
would be in a world of trouble. Troy dan And
has made a statement too, But treub Outbarts previously did
not really even support the peds. The peds wanted to
start their own collective, and trev initially tried to start
(04:25):
a competing collective that really never got off the ground
at that point called the Big Red Collaborative. So that
there were a lot of just political things with Nil
early on that held it back for Nebraska because they
just couldn't get on the same pages. So that, but
I think with the facilities, he was mainly talking about this,
you know, it took a while to get things done
(04:46):
and built with COVID, you know, you know, he said
they're going to get the new grass fields in this
year and some other things done, and that there were
forty nine major knee injuries the previous four years before
he got here, and he thought a lot of that
to do with some of the services and some of
the player treatment things. But now at the training table
(05:08):
and just some of the other issues that they've been
able to address, Like he really feels like this is
as good of a job as there is now in
the country.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Our Husker insider Sean Callahan here just before we run
talk a little football. What he what did you get
from I noticed the coach rules said everybody everybody wants
to do this and they want to do that, but
that's all talk. You actually, I have to do it
on the field. But he is very bullish on this
(05:37):
Husker season, right oh.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I mean, you can tell he likes this team. But
the big thing is he's tried to limit the off
season hype. You're not seeing like the YouTube videos and
stories and shows coming out. And he made mention that
they had a movie created called Chasing Three after their
season last year. He chose not to release the movie
(06:02):
because he just didn't want people making a huge deal
and asking questions about the movie. So, you know, you
get the sense that he likes his team, but he's
also being very careful about overdoing it. He wants he
wants them to understand and and and just take care
of the business now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
All right, Sean, thanks live there in Vegas and keeping
us up to speed on Big ten media days.
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