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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I got to watch some football. College football was happening
over the weekend. Got to watch some.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
College volleyball that happened over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Huskers go to and zero, looking strong against both
Pittsburgh the final fourteen from last year, as well as Stanford,
who's a top ten team in the country.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And now the attention goes to the football program, who
takes on Cincinnati at eight o'clock on Thursday in Kansas
City at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Joining us to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's our first official Husker Buzz of the twenty twenty
five football season. Sean Callahan's with us. Sean, how's it
going man?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Good after you? Let's pop the bottle where we are
back in the afternoons looking forward to it. And we
started these back in seven on KVAB and here we
are in twenty twenty five. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Jeez, how old are you?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm not that old, really, I turned forty five this week.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Okay, happy birthday? Wow? Yeah, wow, that's doing the math
on that.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You would have been just a young buck when that
stuff was going down.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah. I was twenty six when I signed. Come over
to KFAB at that point and start working on the
air of these guys, and here I am still today.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I love it, love it. I don't want to tell
you where I was in two thousand and seven. I
don't think you'd like the answer, But I got to
tell you, Nebraska has been You've seen a lot, Man,
You've seen a lot over the last you know, eighteen
years of just doing this, but also your Husker experience
even before that and at the turn of the millennium
when Nebraska was still very much a superpower blue blood
(01:27):
in the way that people were looking at that program.
What would be your state of this program before we
kind of dig into this particular matchup to start the season.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, I think there's a lot of optimism. I think
there's a lot of anxiousness as you look at what
looks to be a great opportunity this season. You've got
a very very put together offensive unit with an elite
play caller Dana Holgerson. You've upgraded your special teams. You
hope that there's enough on this defense. But then you've
(01:56):
got a schedule that really is not going to throw
a true road game until mid late October at this team,
so they're going to be playing a lot of football
and Memorial Stadium, which is going to allow them to
ideally build up some momentum. And it starts though Thursday,
where you know we're going to see sixty five seventy
thousand Nebraska fans going down the Arrowhead. You know, probably
(02:19):
will be close if not a sellout. I mean, I
know there's only somebody on our site counting it up today.
There's only one hundred and one actual Ticketmaster seats that
aren't like the resale seats on Ticketmaster. So in terms
of the actual tickets that haven't sold by anybody, there's
not many left. And I don't know if anybody from
Cincinnati going to this game. It's going to be ninety
(02:42):
ninety five percent Nebraska fans in that stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, Yet this is a Cincinnati home game for just
I think it's important to revisit how this game itself
came about as the Kansas City start in the Cincinnati
agreeing for one of their home games to be at
air Arrowhead and just knowing what was likely to happen
in that stadium once that was agreed to, How did
(03:06):
this all come together and is this something that could
happen again in the future. Is this just kind of
a one off that you don't expect to be seeing
for the first game of the season against a legitimate
power conference opponent.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, it's probably a one off if if you're being
realistic and just how things work. Cincinnati already had seven
home games before this game, and this would have been
an eighth, and nobody really, not very people play eight
home games. So for them, it was an opportunity to
try to find more revenue. And initially they were going
to play the game in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis,
(03:41):
and their guarantee minimum was like two million, but they
could get over that, but that was going to require
a lot of Nebraska fans to travel, which is not
really Indy's not an easy place to get to. It's
not a direct flight, it's a long drive. And the
Arrowhead folks got involved, and you know, they started to
and I think they looked at the financials and they said, well,
(04:02):
we'll double that minimum guaranteed to like four million. And
I think when it's all said and done, Cincinnati's gonna
walk out of there a lot more money than that.
So for them, you know, they don't even make two
million on a home game. They might make a million
and a half or somewhere in that range. They're going
to make probably off what they would make off three
or four home games off this one home game. And
so for them, in this new nil era where the
(04:25):
Big twelve teams don't have the luxury of the Big
ten teams, this is a huge deal for their athletic
department to give up, you know, what was going to
be a bonus home game and then turn it around
and flip it and make way more money than they
could ever make on one home game.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, Sehan Callahan joining us for Husker Buzz.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And you know, Era has been home to a lot
of college football over the last couple of years, as
Kansas has played a lot of games there, all their
games last year as their city was going through some renovations,
and Cincinnati's a little feisty opponent, and it makes complete
sense why it would be, you know, you'd put it
in a more driveable situation for something like this, and
you mentioned the money in and of itself. Let's talk
(05:04):
about their program for a second. This is a team
that is what year three of the Big twelve, now
they had one of the they were a fun team
to watch. And they were the first team of the
smaller conferences, the group of five to make it to
the College Football Playoff and it was just a four
team playoff, found a way to get into the College
(05:24):
Football Playoff, which people said would never happen for a
school of their size to get to. So where would
you kind of put the pulse of their program now?
And them as a very intriguing first week opponent for
a team like Nebraska, who, like you mentioned, has a
lot of optimism for what this season can be.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well, they return a lot. This is the fourth year
of their head coach, Scott Saderfield. And you know they've
got Source b their quarterback returning. They've got a couple
of Big Ten running backs. Prior to the running back
is from Ohio State, Tylee wah Tucker was an eight
hundred yard rusher at Wisconsin. They've got an NFL level
tight end. They've got arguably the best interior d lineman
(06:08):
in the Big twelve and Dante Corleone. So there is
a lot there in terms of you know, their five
or six top guys. But I think the difference might
be where Nebraska is just a deeper roster and that's
where you have to like let this game get to
I mean, can the depth went out. But I think
their top five or six are every bit as good
(06:29):
as Nebraska's top five or six in a lot of areas.
I mean, they have some good players, and you know,
I do think the road environment is going to be
an advantage. I mean, the spread is still only Nebraska
by six and a half right now, and I think
that kind of puts in perspective the respect that Cincinnati's
getting going into this matchup. You know, they were five
and seventeen. They did start out five and two last
(06:51):
year and then they dropped five in a row. They
had a win over Arizona State, who won the Big Twelve,
but that was a different Arizona State team at that point.
Jeff's him, the former Raska quarterback, actually started that game
for since then for Arizona State when Cincinnati beat them
last year.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That is a really fascinating stuff because you want to
talk about just the changing of landscapes and where Cincinnati
was and where they're kind of in the mix right now.
It's a non conference game, but you're talking watching Ioway
stay in Kansas State play and all the attention to
the fact that this is a conference matchup between two
(07:28):
teams that have a real shot and winning their conference championship.
Those are two teams Cincinnati's going to have to compete with,
along with the Arizona States of the world and the
Utah's of the world, that people are expecting to see
a bounce back come from them. And you have some
other good programs that are kind of bubbling under the surface,
Baylor being one of them, maybe a rebound from someone
(07:51):
like Kansas who was disappointing last year. How does Cincinnati
fit into all this and what would a win mean
for them, not just to get on the column in general,
but of what people would potentially expect from them as
far as a pretty competitive and wide open Big twelve
heading into conference play in a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, they're probably a five to seven win type team,
and I say Nebraska is more like a seven to
nine win type team if you're trying to kind of
compare the projections out there. But I just think they're
under a lot of pressure. Scott Satterfield in his fourth year,
really really needs to get it going. And they did
bring in some good transfer players and were aggressive in
(08:35):
the Big Twelve. The Big Twelve is such a wild card.
You just you know, a year ago Colorado almost won
the league and they were up there too, and Kansas
fell off. But I think Kansas is really set to
have now a good year where they could they could
have a year where they compete towards the top of
that conference. And there's not much that separates that league.
I think it's a lot of teams that kind of
(08:57):
battle the top teams, and that Big Twelve are going
to between eight and four and ten and two. It's
hard for a Big twelve team to really be eleven
and one or twelve and zero because there's just not
a lot that separates the talent level like you see
in maybe the Big Ten or the SEC or in
Ohio State or a Penn State can pull away, or
Georgia Texas or somebody like that. And I think Cincinnati
kind of finds themselves in that kind of rugby scrum
(09:19):
of teams that are going to be between five and
seven wins.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, and they definitely kind of are living there the
last couple of years. We'll see what exactly happens every day,
all week long, all season long. We are going to
have Sean Callahan in the five o'clock hour to break
down things that are happening with the Huskers and break
down this particular matchup on Tuesday and Wednesday, because on Thursday, Sean,
we actually have this game.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What does that mean for the Husker Online show.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well, we just tape the show and that's up to
the band behind the curtain there, Scott board East when
he wants the program, that's show in. But I would
imagine and Scott, I don't know if you have a mic,
And yeah, I'm thinking we're probably gonna run on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Is this, Shawn, I'm such a big fan. Yeah, Thursday
at six o'clock this week, and then for the rest
of the season for a regular Saturday game, you'll hear
the Husker Online pregame show Fridays at six pm. But
this week it will be Thursday at six.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It'll be perfect.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It's always good when a Ralson Ram and a gross
like Cougar can get together on the air and figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, there you go. Now it's any superpowers and bringing
the Avengers together.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know, it just shows that nothing is beneath me. Sean.
I'll even get on the radio and talk to a
kid from gross.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Oh gosh, you guys or something else. Hey, Sewan, appreciate
it man. We'll talk to you tomorrow, right, all right,
Thanks guys,
I got to watch some football. College football was happening
over the weekend. Got to watch some.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
College volleyball that happened over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Huskers go to and zero, looking strong against both
Pittsburgh the final fourteen from last year, as well as Stanford,
who's a top ten team in the country.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And now the attention goes to the football program, who
takes on Cincinnati at eight o'clock on Thursday in Kansas
City at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Joining us to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's our first official Husker Buzz of the twenty twenty
five football season. Sean Callahan's with us. Sean, how's it
going man?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Good after you? Let's pop the bottle where we are
back in the afternoons looking forward to it. And we
started these back in seven on KVAB and here we
are in twenty twenty five. Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Jeez, how old are you?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm not that old, really, I turned forty five this week.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Okay, happy birthday? Wow? Yeah, wow, that's doing the math
on that.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You would have been just a young buck when that
stuff was going down.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah. I was twenty six when I signed. Come over
to KFAB at that point and start working on the
air of these guys, and here I am still today.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I love it, love it. I don't want to tell
you where I was in two thousand and seven. I
don't think you'd like the answer, But I got to
tell you, Nebraska has been You've seen a lot, Man,
You've seen a lot over the last you know, eighteen
years of just doing this, but also your Husker experience
even before that and at the turn of the millennium
when Nebraska was still very much a superpower blue blood
(01:27):
in the way that people were looking at that program.
What would be your state of this program before we
kind of dig into this particular matchup to start the season.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, I think there's a lot of optimism. I think
there's a lot of anxiousness as you look at what
looks to be a great opportunity this season. You've got
a very very put together offensive unit with an elite
play caller Dana Holgerson. You've upgraded your special teams. You
hope that there's enough on this defense. But then you've
(01:56):
got a schedule that really is not going to throw
a true road game until mid late October at this team,
so they're going to be playing a lot of football
and Memorial Stadium, which is going to allow them to
ideally build up some momentum. And it starts though Thursday,
where you know we're going to see sixty five seventy
thousand Nebraska fans going down the Arrowhead. You know, probably
(02:19):
will be close if not a sellout. I mean, I
know there's only somebody on our site counting it up today.
There's only one hundred and one actual Ticketmaster seats that
aren't like the resale seats on Ticketmaster. So in terms
of the actual tickets that haven't sold by anybody, there's
not many left. And I don't know if anybody from
Cincinnati going to this game. It's going to be ninety
(02:42):
ninety five percent Nebraska fans in that stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, Yet this is a Cincinnati home game for just
I think it's important to revisit how this game itself
came about as the Kansas City start in the Cincinnati
agreeing for one of their home games to be at
air Arrowhead and just knowing what was likely to happen
in that stadium once that was agreed to, How did
(03:06):
this all come together and is this something that could
happen again in the future. Is this just kind of
a one off that you don't expect to be seeing
for the first game of the season against a legitimate
power conference opponent.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, it's probably a one off if if you're being
realistic and just how things work. Cincinnati already had seven
home games before this game, and this would have been
an eighth, and nobody really, not very people play eight
home games. So for them, it was an opportunity to
try to find more revenue. And initially they were going
to play the game in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis,
(03:41):
and their guarantee minimum was like two million, but they
could get over that, but that was going to require
a lot of Nebraska fans to travel, which is not
really Indy's not an easy place to get to. It's
not a direct flight, it's a long drive. And the
Arrowhead folks got involved, and you know, they started to
and I think they looked at the financials and they said, well,
(04:02):
we'll double that minimum guaranteed to like four million. And
I think when it's all said and done, Cincinnati's gonna
walk out of there a lot more money than that.
So for them, you know, they don't even make two
million on a home game. They might make a million
and a half or somewhere in that range. They're going
to make probably off what they would make off three
or four home games off this one home game. And
so for them, in this new nil era where the
(04:25):
Big twelve teams don't have the luxury of the Big
ten teams, this is a huge deal for their athletic
department to give up, you know, what was going to
be a bonus home game and then turn it around
and flip it and make way more money than they
could ever make on one home game.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, Sehan Callahan joining us for Husker Buzz.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And you know, Era has been home to a lot
of college football over the last couple of years, as
Kansas has played a lot of games there, all their
games last year as their city was going through some renovations,
and Cincinnati's a little feisty opponent, and it makes complete
sense why it would be, you know, you'd put it
in a more driveable situation for something like this, and
you mentioned the money in and of itself. Let's talk
(05:04):
about their program for a second. This is a team
that is what year three of the Big twelve, now
they had one of the they were a fun team
to watch. And they were the first team of the
smaller conferences, the group of five to make it to
the College Football Playoff and it was just a four
team playoff, found a way to get into the College
(05:24):
Football Playoff, which people said would never happen for a
school of their size to get to. So where would
you kind of put the pulse of their program now?
And them as a very intriguing first week opponent for
a team like Nebraska, who, like you mentioned, has a
lot of optimism for what this season can be.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well, they return a lot. This is the fourth year
of their head coach, Scott Saderfield. And you know they've
got Source b their quarterback returning. They've got a couple
of Big Ten running backs. Prior to the running back
is from Ohio State, Tylee wah Tucker was an eight
hundred yard rusher at Wisconsin. They've got an NFL level
tight end. They've got arguably the best interior d lineman
(06:08):
in the Big twelve and Dante Corleone. So there is
a lot there in terms of you know, their five
or six top guys. But I think the difference might
be where Nebraska is just a deeper roster and that's
where you have to like let this game get to
I mean, can the depth went out. But I think
their top five or six are every bit as good
(06:29):
as Nebraska's top five or six in a lot of areas.
I mean, they have some good players, and you know,
I do think the road environment is going to be
an advantage. I mean, the spread is still only Nebraska
by six and a half right now, and I think
that kind of puts in perspective the respect that Cincinnati's
getting going into this matchup. You know, they were five
and seventeen. They did start out five and two last
(06:51):
year and then they dropped five in a row. They
had a win over Arizona State, who won the Big Twelve,
but that was a different Arizona State team at that point.
Jeff's him, the former Raska quarterback, actually started that game
for since then for Arizona State when Cincinnati beat them
last year.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That is a really fascinating stuff because you want to
talk about just the changing of landscapes and where Cincinnati
was and where they're kind of in the mix right now.
It's a non conference game, but you're talking watching Ioway
stay in Kansas State play and all the attention to
the fact that this is a conference matchup between two
(07:28):
teams that have a real shot and winning their conference championship.
Those are two teams Cincinnati's going to have to compete with,
along with the Arizona States of the world and the
Utah's of the world, that people are expecting to see
a bounce back come from them. And you have some
other good programs that are kind of bubbling under the surface,
Baylor being one of them, maybe a rebound from someone
(07:51):
like Kansas who was disappointing last year. How does Cincinnati
fit into all this and what would a win mean
for them, not just to get on the column in general,
but of what people would potentially expect from them as
far as a pretty competitive and wide open Big twelve
heading into conference play in a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, they're probably a five to seven win type team,
and I say Nebraska is more like a seven to
nine win type team if you're trying to kind of
compare the projections out there. But I just think they're
under a lot of pressure. Scott Satterfield in his fourth year,
really really needs to get it going. And they did
bring in some good transfer players and were aggressive in
(08:35):
the Big Twelve. The Big Twelve is such a wild card.
You just you know, a year ago Colorado almost won
the league and they were up there too, and Kansas
fell off. But I think Kansas is really set to
have now a good year where they could they could
have a year where they compete towards the top of
that conference. And there's not much that separates that league.
I think it's a lot of teams that kind of
(08:57):
battle the top teams, and that Big Twelve are going
to between eight and four and ten and two. It's
hard for a Big twelve team to really be eleven
and one or twelve and zero because there's just not
a lot that separates the talent level like you see
in maybe the Big Ten or the SEC or in
Ohio State or a Penn State can pull away, or
Georgia Texas or somebody like that. And I think Cincinnati
kind of finds themselves in that kind of rugby scrum
(09:19):
of teams that are going to be between five and
seven wins.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, and they definitely kind of are living there the
last couple of years. We'll see what exactly happens every day,
all week long, all season long. We are going to
have Sean Callahan in the five o'clock hour to break
down things that are happening with the Huskers and break
down this particular matchup on Tuesday and Wednesday, because on Thursday, Sean,
we actually have this game.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What does that mean for the Husker Online show.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well, we just tape the show and that's up to
the band behind the curtain there, Scott board East when
he wants the program, that's show in. But I would
imagine and Scott, I don't know if you have a mic,
And yeah, I'm thinking we're probably gonna run on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Is this, Shawn, I'm such a big fan. Yeah, Thursday
at six o'clock this week, and then for the rest
of the season for a regular Saturday game, you'll hear
the Husker Online pregame show Fridays at six pm. But
this week it will be Thursday at six.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It'll be perfect.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It's always good when a Ralson Ram and a gross
like Cougar can get together on the air and figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, there you go. Now it's any superpowers and bringing
the Avengers together.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know, it just shows that nothing is beneath me. Sean.
I'll even get on the radio and talk to a
kid from gross.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Oh gosh, you guys or something else. Hey, Sewan, appreciate
it man. We'll talk to you tomorrow, right, all right,
Thanks guys,
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