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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Sports Brief now the Husker Buzz edition, Sean Callahan
Live and Lekenrosie Okay, shout out. So it's day one.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
They convene for fall camp ahead of the game against Cincinnati,
which is on the twenty eighth down of Kansas City
Thursday night to begin the college football season. Kind of
exciting stuff coming out of spring and this was not
widely reported. And that's not an indictment of the media.
It's just and I think it kind of flew. And
that is Matt Ruhle was most impressed with his offensive line.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now what do you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Make of that?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, I think the depth and experience first and foremost.
You have left. You have your left tackle, Whysa Pritchett
you started at Alabama as a tackle. You have your
left guard, Henry Latowski, He's one of the leaders of
this team, a multi year starter. Your center justin Ebban,
multi year starter. Your right guard transfer's Notre Dame, multi
year starter from Notre Dame. Your right tackle is either
(00:53):
going to be one of three or four people. I mean,
You've got Tyler Knack who came in as a transfer
for Henry Latowski, Gunner Getula and Turner Corkort. All three
of those players have been starters. So it's a very
good veteran group top to bottom of players.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
When you measured that group of lignemen, I think you're
talking about Teddy Parhaska as opposed to Henry Latowsky. Latowski's Teddy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm sorry, Teddy Parskin. He's He'll be coming in at
right tackle to start camp with Gunner Getula, Tyler Knack
and Turner Corkoran is still going to be coming back
from his hamstring injury that he suffered as a surgery. Wise,
but it's it's a good group on paper.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So as you look at the overall talent level that
the program has, and typically you will, you will evaluate
your talent level based on the number of guys who
get drafted. Uh and Nebraska has not had a bunch
of guys drafted recently.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And that's that's a big number. I mean, that's a
big number to look at in terms of a gap
overall talent level. I look at sier Wright and I
think that's Nebraska's best NFL prospect with maybe Singleton's second.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
How do you see it, Well, I think Pritchett. Pritchett's
on some boards right now is a first round mock
draft guy at left tackle if he plays that level.
Dylan Ryola was a draft pick you know down the road.
You know, just from everything you hear and see. I
think Dan Key, the transfer from Kentucky, is going to
be regarded as a draft pick. I think Rocco Spindler
(02:25):
could be. It's hard to say an interior offensive lineman.
There there's a lot there, I mean, especially in the
receiver room. But yeah, on defense, Thesn McCullough is another
one that you know, they brought in as a transfer,
hybrid guy that could play a lot of positions. You know,
he comes in very high profile with Singleton and Ryder
too though for sure, Jim and you know Marquis Watson, Trent,
(02:48):
He's a newcomer they brought in. He was the Sun
Belt player of the year. He was a three time
All conference player in the Sun Belt level. Six year
senior linebacker. He'll be very productive and and he could
be the leading tackler on this team. I mean when
when you when you look at what he's done already
in his career in the tackle numbers, he already has well.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And I think Claike candidly my prediction, and this is
just a fan sitting in section one oh nine. I
think the best transfer is going to be Andrew Marshall.
When you look at what he did and his level
of accomplishment, I see him being more of an impact
player than any of the other transfers, including the guys
you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, he can return kicks and punts if he wins
those jobs, but he's obviously probably going to start at corner.
He was the best corner in the Big Sky Conference,
with along with the Missouri Valley is regarded as the
top FCS conference. I say he was the best corner
because he was the only corner that made first team
All Conference. The other three defensive backs or safeties, so
(03:48):
he comes highly acclaimed. Left there because the staff left
and Dan Jackson, who's now the South Dakota State head coach,
really recommended he should go to Nebraska, and Miami really went.
He took less money to come to Nebraska than what
Miami threw at him, but you know, he knew in
his heart that this is going to be a better
fit for him than going down to Miami.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
One month from the day, Sean Sea as an opener.
What if anything has been done, because it seems like
every fall camp we get a week or so into
it and then there's really bad news of the news
conference after practice about somebody's knee and they're gone for
the season. Is there anything have they looked at training regimens,
(04:31):
field surfaces, anything different this fall in terms of trying
to cut back on injuries.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, you're in Matt rul of media days, say, you
know before he got here, the four years before that,
there were forty nine knee injuries in twenty some acls MAD.
So they've completely torn out the playing surfaces. I mean
literally the whole grass area got a complete makeover from
drainage systems and everything. Today will be the first day
(04:57):
they'll use that new grass. I've been able to get
a few looks at it throughout the summer, and this
is I mean looks like putting green that they're going
to be practicing on. It's going to be a phenomenal
hybrid surface. They've put in new turf fields and Bolt
Memorial Stadium and the Hawks Center because they really felt
like the surface in there wasn't the best for the
student athletes, and they researched what they thought was the
(05:20):
best turf surfaces to have indoors in the stadium. So
there's four new surfaces that'll be breaking in here, you
know this season that weren't here a year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, typically, as trainers and doctors have told me down
through the years that grass fields will cause more ankle injuries,
turf fields will cause more knee injuries. And you've got
very large men running very fast at each other at
a very high rate of speed, with an extraordinary ferocity.
(05:54):
And I would also tell you that the knee bends
in one direction. That's it. So I don't care what
surface you're playing on, you're gonna have knee injuries in football.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, there'll be some, yeah, and but man, if they
can mitigate.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It, perhaps, and maybe there was a training issue before,
maybe there was a lack of commitment to certain specific
physical fundamentals. But you're going to have injuries.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And there sean before we run here opening day to
day schedule for practice now until the opening day game.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Every day, really they have three straight weeks of Monday
through Saturday, so they'll practice six days of the week
and have to take Sundays off, so they're in the
dorms all week here. They moved into cellec on Sunday,
and they'll be in Sellic at least for the first
week I believe this year.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right, man, thanks, we'll talk to you tomorrow morning,
and every morning with a buzz feels like the season's underway.
Once we once we got sewn on. Every day
The Sports Brief now the Husker Buzz edition, Sean Callahan
Live and Lekenrosie Okay, shout out. So it's day one.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
They convene for fall camp ahead of the game against Cincinnati,
which is on the twenty eighth down of Kansas City
Thursday night to begin the college football season. Kind of
exciting stuff coming out of spring and this was not
widely reported. And that's not an indictment of the media.
It's just and I think it kind of flew. And
that is Matt Ruhle was most impressed with his offensive line.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now what do you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Make of that?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, I think the depth and experience first and foremost.
You have left. You have your left tackle, Whysa Pritchett
you started at Alabama as a tackle. You have your
left guard, Henry Latowski, He's one of the leaders of
this team, a multi year starter. Your center justin Ebban,
multi year starter. Your right guard transfer's Notre Dame, multi
year starter from Notre Dame. Your right tackle is either
(00:53):
going to be one of three or four people. I mean,
You've got Tyler Knack who came in as a transfer
for Henry Latowski, Gunner Getula and Turner Corkort. All three
of those players have been starters. So it's a very
good veteran group top to bottom of players.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
When you measured that group of lignemen, I think you're
talking about Teddy Parhaska as opposed to Henry Latowsky. Latowski's Teddy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm sorry, Teddy Parskin. He's He'll be coming in at
right tackle to start camp with Gunner Getula, Tyler Knack
and Turner Corkoran is still going to be coming back
from his hamstring injury that he suffered as a surgery. Wise,
but it's it's a good group on paper.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So as you look at the overall talent level that
the program has, and typically you will, you will evaluate
your talent level based on the number of guys who
get drafted. Uh and Nebraska has not had a bunch
of guys drafted recently.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And that's that's a big number. I mean, that's a
big number to look at in terms of a gap
overall talent level. I look at sier Wright and I
think that's Nebraska's best NFL prospect with maybe Singleton's second.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
How do you see it, Well, I think Pritchett. Pritchett's
on some boards right now is a first round mock
draft guy at left tackle if he plays that level.
Dylan Ryola was a draft pick you know down the road.
You know, just from everything you hear and see. I
think Dan Key, the transfer from Kentucky, is going to
be regarded as a draft pick. I think Rocco Spindler
(02:25):
could be. It's hard to say an interior offensive lineman.
There there's a lot there, I mean, especially in the
receiver room. But yeah, on defense, Thesn McCullough is another
one that you know, they brought in as a transfer,
hybrid guy that could play a lot of positions. You know,
he comes in very high profile with Singleton and Ryder
too though for sure, Jim and you know Marquis Watson, Trent,
(02:48):
He's a newcomer they brought in. He was the Sun
Belt player of the year. He was a three time
All conference player in the Sun Belt level. Six year
senior linebacker. He'll be very productive and and he could
be the leading tackler on this team. I mean when
when you when you look at what he's done already
in his career in the tackle numbers, he already has well.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And I think Claike candidly my prediction, and this is
just a fan sitting in section one oh nine. I
think the best transfer is going to be Andrew Marshall.
When you look at what he did and his level
of accomplishment, I see him being more of an impact
player than any of the other transfers, including the guys
you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, he can return kicks and punts if he wins
those jobs, but he's obviously probably going to start at corner.
He was the best corner in the Big Sky Conference,
with along with the Missouri Valley is regarded as the
top FCS conference. I say he was the best corner
because he was the only corner that made first team
All Conference. The other three defensive backs or safeties, so
(03:48):
he comes highly acclaimed. Left there because the staff left
and Dan Jackson, who's now the South Dakota State head coach,
really recommended he should go to Nebraska, and Miami really went.
He took less money to come to Nebraska than what
Miami threw at him, but you know, he knew in
his heart that this is going to be a better
fit for him than going down to Miami.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
One month from the day, Sean Sea as an opener.
What if anything has been done, because it seems like
every fall camp we get a week or so into
it and then there's really bad news of the news
conference after practice about somebody's knee and they're gone for
the season. Is there anything have they looked at training regimens,
(04:31):
field surfaces, anything different this fall in terms of trying
to cut back on injuries.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, you're in Matt rul of media days, say, you
know before he got here, the four years before that,
there were forty nine knee injuries in twenty some acls MAD.
So they've completely torn out the playing surfaces. I mean
literally the whole grass area got a complete makeover from
drainage systems and everything. Today will be the first day
(04:57):
they'll use that new grass. I've been able to get
a few looks at it throughout the summer, and this
is I mean looks like putting green that they're going
to be practicing on. It's going to be a phenomenal
hybrid surface. They've put in new turf fields and Bolt
Memorial Stadium and the Hawks Center because they really felt
like the surface in there wasn't the best for the
student athletes, and they researched what they thought was the
(05:20):
best turf surfaces to have indoors in the stadium. So
there's four new surfaces that'll be breaking in here, you
know this season that weren't here a year ago.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, typically, as trainers and doctors have told me down
through the years that grass fields will cause more ankle injuries,
turf fields will cause more knee injuries. And you've got
very large men running very fast at each other at
a very high rate of speed, with an extraordinary ferocity.
(05:54):
And I would also tell you that the knee bends
in one direction. That's it. So I don't care what
surface you're playing on, you're gonna have knee injuries in football.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, there'll be some, yeah, and but man, if they
can mitigate.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It, perhaps, and maybe there was a training issue before,
maybe there was a lack of commitment to certain specific
physical fundamentals. But you're going to have injuries.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And there sean before we run here opening day to
day schedule for practice now until the opening day game.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Every day, really they have three straight weeks of Monday
through Saturday, so they'll practice six days of the week
and have to take Sundays off, so they're in the
dorms all week here. They moved into cellec on Sunday,
and they'll be in Sellic at least for the first
week I believe this year.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right, man, thanks, we'll talk to you tomorrow morning,
and every morning with a buzz feels like the season's underway.
Once we once we got sewn on. Every day
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