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Spring Week, Spring Game Week is here. How you

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doing man? Yeah, I'm doing okay.

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I agree with everything Jeremiah Searle said. I appreciate

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you having me on and I'll talk

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to you next week. Thank

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you for rearranging the schedule. I think it's

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funny how you introduced this week, your Spring

1:01

Week in Nebraska, which is a great way

1:03

to describe spring in Nebraska. It tends to

1:05

only be a week long. You

1:07

blink and you miss it. Well,

1:10

Mike, we want to get into some Heisman

1:12

thoughts. Reggie Bush getting his Heisman back. There

1:15

are Crouch retweeting that and

1:17

you've been a Heisman voter since the

1:19

Barry Sanders era, correct? Yeah.

1:25

I'm trying to think, it

1:28

might have even been a little bit before 88, but yeah,

1:30

I've had the

1:34

opportunity and I think there's like

1:37

16 or 17

1:39

voters in the state and

1:41

there's a lot of passion. I

1:43

kind of oversee the list now and

1:46

there's so much interest

1:48

and there are so many media outlets now.

1:53

I'll give you

1:55

an example. They've got a rule. You have to

1:58

replace somebody if they're not a Heisman voter. miss

2:00

two consecutive seasons of voting if they don't get

2:02

their ballot in at time. I've

2:05

taken that to

2:07

if you miss one season, I'm going to replace

2:09

you because there are so many people that want

2:11

to do it and want to be involved in

2:13

it. And, you know,

2:15

there's just a lot of a lot

2:17

of interest, I think, in being involved

2:19

in, in voting for the

2:22

Heisman Trophy. And, you know, people call

2:25

it fall college football

2:27

and, and have the expertise

2:29

to do that. Mike, did you

2:31

take away any votes for people who did not vote for

2:34

endama? Can sue in 2009? No,

2:38

I don't have any control over that

2:40

part. I don't really know what people

2:42

Mike ruling with an iron fist. I don't

2:45

know. I got an email

2:47

from Mike Babcock. It says I voted for

2:50

Colt McCoy and therefore I know nothing about

2:52

college football. You have not only lost your

2:54

vote, you have been exiled from the state.

2:56

But we wanted to kind of get into

2:58

some Heisman rights and

3:00

wrongs as many feel

3:03

that it was wrong to take

3:05

Reggie's Heisman. He was the

3:07

best player in college football that year. Things

3:10

crept up about improper benefits.

3:13

SC had wins vacated. Reggie's

3:16

Heisman went goodbye. And Elijah

3:18

and I kind of went through some

3:21

years where, okay, you

3:23

have 1997 Heisman where

3:25

Woodson was

3:28

incredible. But folks are still

3:30

ticked that Peyton Manning didn't get

3:33

the nod. That's, that's pretty common. You've

3:36

got sue around

3:38

these parts for sure. I mean, he,

3:40

he, he finished fourth, but

3:43

Mark Ingram got the Heisman nod

3:46

over Toby Gerhardt, Colt McCoy and

3:49

Dama can sue Sam

3:51

Bradford had an amazing O eight season.

3:53

Got the nod over

3:55

Tebow, Larry Fitzgerald, really

3:57

good season. Videogame

4:00

numbers and so what's your, what's

4:02

your reaction to Bush and are

4:04

not Ask and we have voted

4:06

for bids. Is this short list

4:08

pretty good when it comes to

4:10

Heisman arguments. We came up with.

4:14

Well. Oh yeah, and that

4:16

Tommie Frazier. You know there was

4:18

an argument thera say oh. Ninety.

4:21

Five with Eddie George. Yeah.

4:23

When they george. Oh. And

4:25

and I don't know if. You.

4:27

Know each state has been.

4:31

I think a different number of voters

4:33

depending upon the. Size.

4:36

Of the populate front a letter tell. Said.

4:38

What Are the I am? I? Gonna.

4:41

Our yours met a young and

4:44

that covers divided into intersections and

4:46

that I think he section has

4:48

the same number. Of. Votes

4:50

Alas, that, that's a good thing.

4:54

But. The yeah I was in

4:56

favor of of Reggie Bush. Getting.

4:59

The housing them back. I think

5:01

that. From. My point

5:03

of view: U S C pay the

5:05

penalty for the violations. You know there

5:08

were. On the number of

5:10

scholarship players they could have was reduce

5:12

over a period. Maybe.

5:14

It's just one season or I don't know,

5:16

was more than that. I'm

5:18

and it so I looked at it

5:21

From that standpoint was a the best

5:23

player in college football. That's what the

5:25

both show. Yeah I'm and then I

5:28

thought he should have. I.

5:30

Don't know that he should have lost

5:32

to the Heisman because again, The

5:35

school police apparently. Paid.

5:37

The price. For. What happened

5:39

there as I think should have been

5:41

the case. And. The other

5:43

thing is because he was so good and

5:45

because he was high profile because he played.

5:48

For. A program? a national championship

5:50

contender? Of. The. While

5:52

he was there. And were

5:55

they when couple while he was

5:57

there they wanted in. Oh three.

5:59

I think they split it. No

6:02

three. Day one it in Oh

6:04

for as see destroyed Oklahoma O

6:06

five Texas and Vince Young beat

6:09

him. Okay. Okay so

6:11

you're playing on of your planet

6:13

of program as as that high

6:15

profile. Ah, Thanks.

6:17

Come out about your your

6:20

situation. That. Probably don't come out

6:22

about it. Other players a man, I'm. I'm

6:25

not. I'm saying that I don't think

6:27

she was probably the only player. That.

6:29

Receives. Illegal

6:31

benefits. You know that

6:34

if that makes any sense of. Ah,

6:37

He was on and use on it.

6:39

He was part of a program that

6:41

got caught with illegal benefits. Yeah, and

6:43

then again because of where it stood

6:45

in the whole scheme of things. The

6:47

success. That. That program was having.

6:50

And the success that he had a. Girl.

6:52

Spotlight on him that produce. Ah,

6:56

You know, Evidence. Of what

6:58

had happened. But. Again, the school

7:00

paid the price as it should have. I

7:03

didn't think that he should have lost the

7:05

trophy because. I. Thought that he. Was.

7:08

The player of the deserved to win it. also

7:10

to add to it. Like. Illinois

7:12

landslide that you're used by far and away

7:14

the best. my run out of while we

7:17

all knew it, I mean got almost. Vince

7:19

was pretty sweet to and by by Reggie

7:21

got almost eight hundred of the almost nine

7:23

hundred first place votes like he almost took

7:26

ninety percent of the Heisman voters. I've.

7:29

Votes is the first place Guy gives an

7:31

absolute landslide. Him we met with I went

7:33

nuts with the previous Heisman winner heat and

7:35

off to will involve look at the look

7:38

at the player. Yeah, I said the top

7:40

for that year. Bush: Vince Young, Matt Leinart,

7:42

Brady Quinn. He went over some good players

7:44

and it wasn't a complete landslide. that's how

7:46

good he was the one it over an

7:48

incumbent snappers. We got about ten thirty seconds

7:51

before heartbreak. We keep you on the other

7:53

side. Tuck your advice. I'd much rather something

7:55

of substance to say. Know your good Mike

7:57

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8:08

football of as. Work.

8:10

But are also I were quickly get one I

8:12

thought from Mike on the Heisman. If possible make.

8:15

If you were in charge, would you be given

8:17

that the Heisman to sue in two thousand and

8:19

Nine only can't do it. Now that would. Yeah.

8:22

I would have. Been but I do

8:24

know that out. There. Haven't been

8:26

any players. I mean what sonos!

8:28

The. One. Guy that fees

8:30

cause us to not be enough. Offensive

8:34

player so he also an

8:36

office supply of right. Arm

8:39

that is one that war. It's it's kind of.

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But. He had a look to the

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Mike What he expects to learn Saturday

9:11

with Nebraska Deal and Right and or

9:13

the the running back room. You

9:17

know I I, I do approved Jeremiah I

9:19

think the focus is gonna be on dell

9:21

a morality opportunity to see an. Arm

9:24

and I think. A

9:27

screen game as as well as life recruiter.

9:29

Okay, like when you recruit somebody.

9:32

They're. As good as you want him to be

9:35

as your imagination to make him until they get

9:37

on the field. And. Then you find out

9:39

whether they can play or not. Same.

9:41

With a spring game I think people come

9:43

away with optimism in the spur what from

9:45

what I see in the spring game. Because.

9:49

The team can be as good as. You.

9:51

Wanted to be at that point. For.

9:53

What you see out there. Until

9:55

you get to the fall and you start playing

9:57

games. So. either people come

10:00

away with optimism. I

10:03

think they'll come away with the evaluation

10:07

of the quarterbacks. I think that's

10:09

obviously the focus with Riola probably

10:12

at the top of that, but you want to see how Harvard

10:15

has improved. You want

10:17

to see Kaitlyn to see what he

10:19

can do out there

10:22

because I think the competition will continue

10:24

in the fall even though we

10:27

don't really have a good idea of where things

10:29

stand right now. And

10:31

there, you know, we're gonna

10:33

see limited some of the

10:35

first string guys offensive

10:38

and defensive line. We're not gonna see a whole

10:40

lot of that because you're gonna get guys in

10:42

there that you want to get some experience and

10:44

you know guys that

10:46

are coming back that have this kind of experience

10:48

that you want and you want to keep them

10:51

healthy for the fall.

10:53

So I think it's gonna be

10:56

optimism and you're gonna

10:58

feel good about the what you

11:00

see from the team. And you

11:02

know you should because I

11:04

think that I think that Riola has a

11:07

good approach to what he is trying to do

11:09

here. I think the players are

11:11

buying in. I think he holds

11:14

players accountable. I think he holds

11:16

assistant coaches accountable. I think he

11:18

holds himself accountable and I

11:20

think those are all things that are

11:22

gonna make this team reason

11:25

for optimism going

11:27

into the fall. Mike, whenever we

11:30

discuss the spring game last night here about 60

11:32

seconds. Last year it was eight fumbles where he

11:34

looked and said that's concerning but at least there's

11:36

time to get it fixed. Like what

11:38

is your take on there's gonna be concerns that come out of

11:40

the spring game. That's how it goes just about every single year.

11:42

How much stock do you put into any of that? Well

11:47

not a lot. It's kind of like what rule

11:49

said you know the head coach. You're

11:53

the head coach. You're watching the spring game. The offense

11:56

goes down on scores. You feel good about the offense

11:58

but you don't feel good about the defense. Are

12:01

you the difference? intercepts the ball, recovered a

12:03

fumble, or whatever. you feel good about the

12:05

defense you know vivid about the off and.

12:08

It's like if you know many the way.

12:11

Kind. Of assignments and you know I think of

12:13

same way with fans. You have to look out

12:15

that way. You. Know and you

12:17

know what? That many turnovers. Again,

12:19

that's not something about Athens. Maybe

12:22

that optimism and on fox amount of not

12:24

quite there. Might

12:27

not gonna could heal. Varsity Heard

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12:43

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12:45

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12:47

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