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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, maybe he's one of news on the sports brief.
Now go to the Husker Buzz with Sean Callahan and
let here's Jim Rows.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, Seana, let's come on in and talk a little
bit off the field stuff, because.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Matt Ruhl made a little bit of a headline.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yesterday at least a social media buzz when he talked
about this new this settlement in the NCAA lawsuit against
the players and vice versa, and this new roster restriction
which could come to one hundred and five for next season,
and this means essentially that they'll all be on scholarship
and it means the end of the walk on program.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
In your estimation, what would that ramification be, Well.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You know, if it was just you know, we still
need more. And Matt Rul said this as well, that
the details are the important part. We still don't know.
Can you have you know, another group of players, almost
like a practice squad group that that that you know,
and the only have to what's the cutoff date? You
have to be at one hundred and five. That's basically
what we don't know right now. Training camp is one
(01:01):
hundred and twenty, so there's thirty players or so that
didn't even make it into fall camp for Nebraska right now,
so they deal with the cut right now. It used
to be one hundred and five not that long ago.
They've raised it to one twenty post COVID because of
the additional players inside college football. But I still believe
that there will be at least a grandfathering period for
(01:22):
your current players. There's no way you're going to make
programs mass cut twenty thirty forty kids to get down
to this number and disrupt their educations their lives for
this roster cap. So what will that timeline be as well?
But yeah, you're right. I mean the rule essentially means
you can have one hundred and five players, and all
one hundred and five, if you choose, can be on scholarship.
(01:46):
Volleyball I believe is going to have an eighteen roster cap,
so John Cook can theoretically have eighteen scholarship players. Now,
what we don't know is a lot of schools may
not be able to fund the additional increases, Like wrestling
is going nine point nine on the men's side the thirty.
A program like IOWA might be able to fund close
to thirty scholarships and wrestling, but not very many others will.
(02:08):
So some of the powerful programs, especially in the Olympic sports,
are going to really be able to take advantage of
this additional scholarship money where others may not at that point.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's it's a question that a lot of athletic
directors are asking themselves.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And the other sport is baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right now, it's eleven point seven scholarships, and most of
them can handle that. They slice up the scholarships in
thirds and fourths to accommodate a thirty person roster. But
if you go to thirty scholarships for baseball, which is
what they're talking about, SEC schools will do it, but
how many Big ten programs will do that? Nebraska will,
but what about Iowa and Minnesota and Purdue in Illinois.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's going to change the competitive nature of a lot
of sports.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, and there's going to be stipends now if they're
full scholarship athletes. I believe author received the cost of attendance,
stipends and other things like that. So there's going to
be signific thinking cost, especially if you bring athletes up
to foles. Now you can do partials as well that
you're allowed to do partials, but what these roster cap numbers.
So you could say the roster cap could be thirty four,
(03:14):
but we're only gonna do twenty, and then we're going
to do partials on that twenty. Still you don't have
to do foles. But yeah, there's a lot of technicalities.
Football I believe will be able to do partials too
now moving forward if they wanted to. So there's the
deal will just be one hundred and five players, you know,
and a lot of programs aren't gonna want to have
(03:35):
one hundred and five scholarship guys. It's hard to manage.
It's hard to find that many quality players. Now. Nebraska
basically already has one hundred guys that are on a
scholarship level agreement, whether it's from Nebraska now or a
deal they have from the NIL collective. I mean, there's
some high quality walk ons that currently are on what
you know, essentially an NIL deal that would be equal
(03:57):
to a scholarship, and that's a way around the book
by doing that, and it's totally legal right now in
the framework of college athletics. So I think these are
some of the things they're trying to get away from.
That inil has allowed programs to do.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, and make no mistake, numbers are where it's at.
When Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado finished one, two and three
in the polls at the end of the nineteen seventy
one season, it was the all time greatest moment in
the history of the Big A Conference. Nebraska had one
hundred and fifty guys on scholarship, Oklahoma had one hundred
and forty five in Colorado on one hundred and forty.
So it's about numbers and the more players you have,
(04:33):
the better you have the chance to build depth and
replace quality with quality if there's an injury on the field.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, it's and we just there's so many more details
on this and that fifteen or that twenty two million
that teams are going to have to be able to
pay players essentially from the media rights money. You know,
we don't know what that number is going to be,
but it's presumed it's going to be around fifteen million
for football. I mean, that's a significant amount of money.
(05:01):
And and there's gonna have to be a tiering system
of how certain athletes get paid from that money. They
have to come up with a lot of things, but
then the collective, you know what will their role be
on top of that? You know what, what will what
will the rules allow for a collective to do? After that?
Revenue rights money essentially is distributed out to rosters.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So your access is what during fall camp Seawan, you
and uh and and the rest of the Husker media.
You're got to look at these guys on the practice field.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, we're sized dats. Three days a week, we'll be
in there, so we'll bet we're back in tomorrow. It's
a it's a pretty routine schedule for the first three
weeks of Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, we get to watch three
different days of practice, including the open practice on Saturday
night in the stadium, which that that will be funny.
Are you coming down?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You have to pay for that, by the way, the.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Media does not have to pay. Yeah, there are some
guys pretty throwing a uh you know they were not
going to pay go if they had to pay. Matt
Rule said his wife's buying a ticket even to go
to it's a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm not I've seen a lot of practice down through
the years.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Uh, what you're gonna see, folks just So you know,
if you think you're gonna see a sneak preview of
some sort of special Nebraska offensive alignment or some really
goofy plays, think again, because there ain't no way Matt
Rule and Marcus Hadderfield are going to put anything on
that field that somebody's going to take a picture of
and wind up uh in some opponents coaching meeting room.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But this is a this is I think for a
lot of fans who I get to I get to
see him, take a look at it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You're gonna be a lot of guys want to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
See guys running up and down the field and you know,
high five and all that other jazz.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Sean. Thanks Sean Callahan. Our hus are insider with the
buzz every morning
Yeah, maybe he's one of news on the sports brief.
Now go to the Husker Buzz with Sean Callahan and
let here's Jim Rows.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, Seana, let's come on in and talk a little
bit off the field stuff, because.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Matt Ruhl made a little bit of a headline.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yesterday at least a social media buzz when he talked
about this new this settlement in the NCAA lawsuit against
the players and vice versa, and this new roster restriction
which could come to one hundred and five for next season,
and this means essentially that they'll all be on scholarship
and it means the end of the walk on program.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
In your estimation, what would that ramification be, Well.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You know, if it was just you know, we still
need more. And Matt Rul said this as well, that
the details are the important part. We still don't know.
Can you have you know, another group of players, almost
like a practice squad group that that that you know,
and the only have to what's the cutoff date? You
have to be at one hundred and five. That's basically
what we don't know right now. Training camp is one
(01:01):
hundred and twenty, so there's thirty players or so that
didn't even make it into fall camp for Nebraska right now,
so they deal with the cut right now. It used
to be one hundred and five not that long ago.
They've raised it to one twenty post COVID because of
the additional players inside college football. But I still believe
that there will be at least a grandfathering period for
(01:22):
your current players. There's no way you're going to make
programs mass cut twenty thirty forty kids to get down
to this number and disrupt their educations their lives for
this roster cap. So what will that timeline be as well?
But yeah, you're right. I mean the rule essentially means
you can have one hundred and five players, and all
one hundred and five, if you choose, can be on scholarship.
(01:46):
Volleyball I believe is going to have an eighteen roster cap,
so John Cook can theoretically have eighteen scholarship players. Now,
what we don't know is a lot of schools may
not be able to fund the additional increases, Like wrestling
is going nine point nine on the men's side the thirty.
A program like IOWA might be able to fund close
to thirty scholarships and wrestling, but not very many others will.
(02:08):
So some of the powerful programs, especially in the Olympic sports,
are going to really be able to take advantage of
this additional scholarship money where others may not at that point.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's it's a question that a lot of athletic
directors are asking themselves.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And the other sport is baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right now, it's eleven point seven scholarships, and most of
them can handle that. They slice up the scholarships in
thirds and fourths to accommodate a thirty person roster. But
if you go to thirty scholarships for baseball, which is
what they're talking about, SEC schools will do it, but
how many Big ten programs will do that? Nebraska will,
but what about Iowa and Minnesota and Purdue in Illinois.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's going to change the competitive nature of a lot
of sports.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, and there's going to be stipends now if they're
full scholarship athletes. I believe author received the cost of attendance,
stipends and other things like that. So there's going to
be signific thinking cost, especially if you bring athletes up
to foles. Now you can do partials as well that
you're allowed to do partials, but what these roster cap numbers.
So you could say the roster cap could be thirty four,
(03:14):
but we're only gonna do twenty, and then we're going
to do partials on that twenty. Still you don't have
to do foles. But yeah, there's a lot of technicalities.
Football I believe will be able to do partials too
now moving forward if they wanted to. So there's the
deal will just be one hundred and five players, you know,
and a lot of programs aren't gonna want to have
(03:35):
one hundred and five scholarship guys. It's hard to manage.
It's hard to find that many quality players. Now. Nebraska
basically already has one hundred guys that are on a
scholarship level agreement, whether it's from Nebraska now or a
deal they have from the NIL collective. I mean, there's
some high quality walk ons that currently are on what
you know, essentially an NIL deal that would be equal
(03:57):
to a scholarship, and that's a way around the book
by doing that, and it's totally legal right now in
the framework of college athletics. So I think these are
some of the things they're trying to get away from.
That inil has allowed programs to do.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, and make no mistake, numbers are where it's at.
When Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado finished one, two and three
in the polls at the end of the nineteen seventy
one season, it was the all time greatest moment in
the history of the Big A Conference. Nebraska had one
hundred and fifty guys on scholarship, Oklahoma had one hundred
and forty five in Colorado on one hundred and forty.
So it's about numbers and the more players you have,
(04:33):
the better you have the chance to build depth and
replace quality with quality if there's an injury on the field.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, it's and we just there's so many more details
on this and that fifteen or that twenty two million
that teams are going to have to be able to
pay players essentially from the media rights money. You know,
we don't know what that number is going to be,
but it's presumed it's going to be around fifteen million
for football. I mean, that's a significant amount of money.
(05:01):
And and there's gonna have to be a tiering system
of how certain athletes get paid from that money. They
have to come up with a lot of things, but
then the collective, you know what will their role be
on top of that? You know what, what will what
will the rules allow for a collective to do? After that?
Revenue rights money essentially is distributed out to rosters.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So your access is what during fall camp Seawan, you
and uh and and the rest of the Husker media.
You're got to look at these guys on the practice field.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, we're sized dats. Three days a week, we'll be
in there, so we'll bet we're back in tomorrow. It's
a it's a pretty routine schedule for the first three
weeks of Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, we get to watch three
different days of practice, including the open practice on Saturday
night in the stadium, which that that will be funny.
Are you coming down?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You have to pay for that, by the way, the.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Media does not have to pay. Yeah, there are some
guys pretty throwing a uh you know they were not
going to pay go if they had to pay. Matt
Rule said his wife's buying a ticket even to go
to it's a fundraiser.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm not I've seen a lot of practice down through
the years.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Uh, what you're gonna see, folks just So you know,
if you think you're gonna see a sneak preview of
some sort of special Nebraska offensive alignment or some really
goofy plays, think again, because there ain't no way Matt
Rule and Marcus Hadderfield are going to put anything on
that field that somebody's going to take a picture of
and wind up uh in some opponents coaching meeting room.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But this is a this is I think for a
lot of fans who I get to I get to
see him, take a look at it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You're gonna be a lot of guys want to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
See guys running up and down the field and you know,
high five and all that other jazz.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Sean. Thanks Sean Callahan. Our hus are insider with the
buzz every morning
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