Parsing Rhule's Words

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Rosie shut Out, and yesterday's news conference the collection of
reprobates that cover Nebraska football. Did you ever talk about
the Minnesota game?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, we did get into the Minnesota game, but yeah,
the first ten minutes were really about the rumors out there,
and you know, Matt Rule addressed it. But I don't
think anybody left there feeling really good about the situation
because you know, it's very much still a live ball
at this point.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well said, it's a live ball out there. I don't know.
I guess I'm one of these guys that believes that
there's life after any coach, and that if you get
worked up about losing a guy, that means you don't
have any confidence you'd ever be able to replace him.
And I would hope that Nebraskans have grown past that. Yeah,
he's a good coach, he's done a good job here,

(00:59):
but suggest that this program can't survive without Matt Rule
is absolute nonsense.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
No, you're right, I think yesterday he did kind of
You know, you have to really listen to rule a
few times. He talks so fast, and he kind of
circles the plane around the runway a few times, and
he sometimes will say a lot and you don't even
realize that. You know, one comment that gets your attention
is about the thirty to forty million dollar rosters, and
you know, he kind of more or less it would

(01:24):
be nice if we could be one of those. And
you know, I think of anything he used some of yesterday, like, hey,
these are some of the things we need. You know,
you guys talk like where there's big time program, but
we didn't have the money to get Jamar Brown. You know,
we didn't have the money to get this guy or
that guy. And if you want to play with Orgon,
Ohio State, Texas Tech what they're doing right now, or

(01:46):
teams like that, you have to be able to financially
compete now. And that's the new age of college football.
And I think that was one of the hidden messages
in his words yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
You might explain a lot of Husker fans may be
confused about what all of that means because they know
that now there's this revenue share and that every school
has the same twenty point five million dollars this year,
probably go up next year, and then probably fifteen to
sixteen million of that'll be spent on football players. And now,
because of the NCAA rules and the ruling in the

(02:17):
in the Hobbs versus House or the House case versus
the NCUBLA, you can't have the five thousand dollars phone
call to the kid's grandson anymore, the booster's grandson anymore.
How does Nebraska get more money for the players like
Texas has in Oregon has no.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
It is confusing because it has to be approved in
IL to the clearinghouse to be over the top of
the rep share money and rule. Had said that that, hey,
this is going to really level thing. But now he's
kind of changed his tune a little bit in the
sense that he thinks that everything will still get passed.
In fact, the clearinghouse has almost passed everything that's coming
through at this point. I think it just has to

(02:55):
be presented properly to them. So yeah, it's it's coming
up with new the other ways to supplement WITHINIL that's legitimate,
and you know that's what the Organs and the Ohio
states are going to continue to do. Because you know,
if they have thirty to forty million dollar rosters, and
you know teams like Nebraska are probably more in the

(03:16):
twenty or fifteen range, that's a significant difference in terms
of the players you can pull to bring your roster
over the top.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, it's a hard sell for Nebraska's because I don't
believe that Nebraska is spending less money than Indiana is
spending on players. And they're number two of the poll
this week. And you look at the players that Nebraska has.
There are some talented guys out there. Look at the
skill people. Look at Emma Johnson, look at Jacory Barney,
look at then Isaiah Hunter. Dylan Royal is a three

(03:46):
million dollars a year guy. We do have some players.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, I don't disagree, I mean because I also am
realistic in my sense, like you're not going to beat
Phil Knight in Oregon, no matter what I mean, He's
going to or do this Texas Tech will. They're just
going to keep spending. And I don't know if that
many people can do that anyway, But I did think
I did take that away from his common yesterday that
you know, he said it'd be nice if we could

(04:11):
be something like that someday, and I don't know if
you can. I just don't know if that's realistic long
term to sustain that. You can do it for a
few years, but to do that for fifteen twenty years
and have the support from your boosters, because yes, we
have the Pete family in Nebraska, but after that, how
many other even seventh figure in IL boosters are there?

(04:33):
Plenty of people obviously in the six figure range, but
you need big seven figure in IL boosters annually. And
that's not easy to do in a place like Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, not as many people. I did bristle though at
the notion, and I think all Nebraskas would that. You know,
Matt said, well, Nebra's not the Nebraska way. Yeah, it
really is the Nebraska away, Matt, because we were investing
in college football long before anybody else. Now, we weren't
investing in putting money in players pockets, but we were
doing things to make college football number one. Here we

(05:03):
have for fifty sixty seventy five years, groundbreaking I mean
the stadium, the performance center, is the weight room, the
academic support, the staff. This he walked into a one
hundred and sixty five million dollar palace when he got
here to suggest that Nebraska is behind. I think that
makes people bristle.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, and in il such a gamble, as you know,
paying some of these players, and we're seeing it with
a couple on this roster this year. When you pay
a guy a lot of money doesn't necessarily yield res.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's exactly right. And coaching and player development, well, look
at your favorite baseball team, Seawan. The Dodgers, they got
that I think number one pay roll in Major League.
They barely made it into the playoffs, right, the Mets didn't.
I mean, there's a lot more to it than that.
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