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Episode Date: October 30, 2025

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Thursday, boom for you here on one-on-one with the BDP out of studio. Today, he will be back next week. Back to come back for the USC game. It's not going to miss that. Here for the blackout. Everybody's excited for the big game this weekend. Top 25 of Porn. Of course, the day after Halloween, I can't wait for this.

Kind of feels like for me, I made a big Halloween fan. I know Nick Saneer jumping in studio with me here today said he didn't dress up too much to go trick-treating as a child. But Halloween's my favorite, so I'm glad they're leaving. into it this week. Really? Yeah, absolutely. I love this. This is, uh, if I could like, fantasy book Oscar football game. It might go something like this. There are other people, Jake Sorenson, likes the traditional matchup with the helmets. Usually I am that guy, but I'll just have to admit there's not a whole lot of, uh, history between Nebraska, USC.

We had the helmet matchup last year. Yep. I like this idea. And if it becomes an annual tradition to do it, especially around the Halloween game, I'm, in fact, today I'm telling people, that Spirit Halloween didn't pay me. I have worked there before. That's how much of a Halloween fan I am. Yeah. A little seasonal job. Yes. Yes. And it was pure, I mean, they didn't pay the most money if you can imagine, but

it was purely for the Halloween in fun of it. Did you get the discount? That's how much I like Halloween. I did. I think they gave me, in fact, they gave me a code. They said it's a lifetime discount. I haven't tried it out. Oh, whoa, whoa. Okay. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Well, we can't say the code on air. No, no, no. It's just an employee code. You mean, everyone gets their own.

So Spirit Halloween. if I can have free shipping on the orders over $40 with the code free 40. But I'm going to, I actually have to go to, I'll be making a trek over to Goodwill today. Okay, that's where you're looking for. That's to see, I do not work there. It's though, but that's where I'm going to attempt to get stuff for my costume. Yeah. Do you have an idea for your costume?

I do. I will say this. Because I can talk about it, I think, because I don't think my buddies are listening. I've been trying to keep it a secret. But I am going as one of our friends in our group. She doesn't know it yet.

She's pregnant. Very happy for her. Very happy for him. But I'm dressing up as her. As pregnant her. As pregnant her, yes. But she's also hosting the Halloween party that we're going to. Oh, nice.

And so I'm walking in and I'm going to be where. It's basically just like a oversized sweatshirt. I bought one of the pregnant bellies off of Amazon. And I just have to go to Goodwill and like find it. Try to find like some like, I don't know if I want to do like the whole stretchy pants thing. Yeah, like the whole stretchy pants thing. But like I'm just going to be, I need to find a blonde wig.

Yeah, that's not too bad. I probably do that. So I'm just not spending. Oh, I'm hoping that I can spend less than 15 bucks on this. Yeah, that's the idea. Because I will never wear it again if you can guess. So anyway. See, I think my, my son decided to go as a bat this year.

A bat. So I told him. Not Batman. Not his Batman. He wants to be a bat. So I mean, he's four years old. This cute little bat costume. Yeah, sure.

Sure. It's not like the ugly bats that you see, you know, hanging upside down in the caves or anything. So I decided, I told him I could either be Batman or Dracula. I mean, I got to do something that's close to him. He doesn't want me to be a hero. So I'm going to try to do Dracula, which I think I could also do for under $15, right? Just find some sort of, uh... I would hope so.

Yeah. I would hope so. Like, I'm looking at some of these. I would love. I would love to just go off. all out on some of these. But also like, so the T-Rex, I've always thought the T-Rex inflatable stuff

is funny. That's always good, yeah. But I'm not paying $70. It's $70. I'm not doing it. Yeah. I just will not. There's like, it's almost become a fixture at Nebraska football games. Isn't it like three or four of those guys dressed up in a right?

The T-Rex, the adult version, adult T-Rex inflatable costume, Jurassic Park is $11999. Yeah, it's a little bit. The kids is $69. Oh, you thought this. Yeah, you can definitely not. Definitely not. Even like the, the adult Darth Vader is 70 bucks. Yeah, it's not cheap anymore. It's not just to go out. This is the problem. Somebody, somebody says, by the way, off YouTube, you're going to Goodwill too late. It's already been torn through. Are you serious? No, I need. I literally just need a, a, a, a, an oversized solid colored crew neck sweatshirt. That's all I need. Yeah. I don't even need a hoodie. I just need it. I need like a, probably like a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, I need a, a, a, a, I need a, a, a, a, I need a, a, I need a, a, I need a, a, I need a, a, I a double X would probably be big enough for me. Like it would be oversaw? I want it to be loungy.

You want to be comfy and I want to be very comfy. That's the point. But enough, it needs to be small enough. Okay, I'm being using, you know, retort double negative. Like it needs to be, it needs to be oversized, but it needs to be baggy up top, but where my, my pregnant belly can still be seen. That's what we need. I'm a big fan of those pregnancy pants.

I know that we don't, that's not common for people to wear. I think we should embrace those. Those look at a pregnancy pants? Yeah, they're like, I don't know what they have in there, but they stretch out with it. It's like wearing the top maternity pants. Yeah, I never thought that this would be a search on my laptop here. How expensive they are. I found some for 13 bucks.

Yeah, there you go. So maybe I just need to buy some of these. Yeah, that's crazy. They might not be the most fashionable, but they actually have made, you know, they try to make them fashionable for the pregnant women, you know, what you could do there. And I think we should just embrace. I mean, they look something. Somebody asked if I was wearing. makeup, no, like I'm not. I'm literally, it's literally, it's literally in the beard. No, no, no, it's just

going to be, it's good, sure I'm going to be just a, a blonde wig. I'm going to try to try to find, if I can't find a blonde wig, I don't really care either. Like I'm not, I'm not going to tear up Lincoln try to find it. But I'm going to try to find like a blonde wig. And then I'm going to wear a solid colored oversized sweatshirt, my little pregnancy belly that I bought. And then, and it's funnier if it's probably doesn't sound funny over the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the and I understand that I acknowledge that. But if you knew the people, it would be funny. No, that's fine.

I think it's like, yeah, I think it makes sense. Like, we're not do anything. Like, we're not going. She goes, so she's obviously the one that set it up. She's like, yeah, you know, I'm going to, like, she's like, I guess I think we should watch Hotel Transylvania. And there's like nine of us that are going. We're like, what are we doing?

Like, this is what we're doing on Halloween. So we're going to dress up to just watch a movie. So that's why I was like, I want to do something comfy. I'm not dressed up as, I'm not dressing up as Joker and getting all this face paint and stuff. just to watch Hotel Transylvania. I could care less. Have you seen Hotel Theater? Never, never.

I hate movies. Oh, you really don't. I'm hoping they start it before I even show up. And there's a chance because we will be broadcasting the Malcolm Lincoln Lutheran playoff football game this Friday. First ever time that I've been out to Malcolm football ever, ever. How long the drive is? I have no clue where Malcolm is. You put me on the spot here.

30 minutes maybe? Not even, not even. Text line, help us out. Like 15 minutes. It's right out. You go out 30. and you're just, you're like there on the left-hand side. So past, past the airport, obviously.

But the Malcolm Clippers. Malcolm Clippers against Lincoln Lutheran. That's right. Because, and the, I mean, the honest thought, you know, because we, we talked about this, like, why, why do Class C2 games? You want to know why? It's because, unfortunately, in Class A and B, not a Lincoln team hosts. Not one, they're Waverly hosts, okay?

But, like, we're also trying to find good competitive games, right? and the other option was Waverly, who is number one seed in Class B. But they play the 16th seed. I, that's probably more than likely. I'm taking a gamble and saying that that's probably not going to be the most competitive game. So we went and we're like, well, you know what? We can make the trek out to Malcolm, sure.

And we'll reassess. Maybe we do a Class A game next week. Maybe we do a Class B game the following week. Who knows? But we're going to see some Class C2 action with Malcolm and Lincoln Lutheran on Friday. it's going to be a good time. All right. Well,

you can throw all that away. I know Austin just got you to go to the League of Lutheran. Not at all. No, no, no, thankfully. So do they have a pretty good chance to make a run or how,

I mean, from the outside? They're fine. I mean, yeah, like class C2 is just competitive from top to bottom. So I would say that there is more parity in class B than there ever has been before.

Class B is going to be awesome. The Norris Waverly game a few weeks ago was one for the ages. But yeah, no, there's a lot of parity right now. in classes other than A. A, you know what's going to happen in class A. Yeah.

We'll stay far away from Millard South game until whatever it's called state championship. I was the Lincoln Lutheran Warrior for a few years. I'm excited. Then where? The Warriors. I don't even know. Buck, we've been working together for like almost six years. Yeah.

I don't know where you go to high school. I know you went to Pius. You wear that pretty proudly. Is you a proudly? I went to southeast. for three years. But I probably even more, I went to the freshman year

at Lincoln Lutheran. I would say one way. I mean, and what year did you graduate? 2008. Yeah. I was at a wedding this last Friday

and we had the conversation. This was like the first time that this has happened for me, Bach, where we started mingling. It was, I did not know any of these people at the wedding.

I was there with somebody and she knew everybody. And it was one of those, Bach to where So what year did you graduate high school? No, I'm saying like that was the question. That was the question that was asked around the entire table. And they, we started talking about like high school reunions coming up and things like that.

And that was the first time that that's ever happened. And it made me feel much older than 24, obviously. Oh, yeah. But like, I sat there and I thought, holy crap, this is, this is the barrel I'm staring down. Yeah, yeah, it'll happen. Your 10 year reunion will come around pretty quickly. That's sad. My tenure union was a good story.

I didn't get invited, but I showed up to the bar. You didn't get invited? No. So reunions, I think some people too think that the school puts it on and it's all organized and stuff. It's up to your classmates. You know, so, you know, I suppose I wasn't in the in crowd or whatever at Southeast. You put it that way. That's one for that's sad.

And so there was, yeah, it helped me at my jump shot. I played basketball at lunchtime a lot instead of hanging out with people. Oh, geez, that makes me feel so bad. I always made the joke. The friends I sat with at a lunch were all the members of my favorite band who was listening to. I just, I actually liked being alone. No,

okay, I didn't like being alone. I, there was moments where I didn't want to be around people. Yeah, so that's what me. But anyway, fair enough.

Yeah. Yeah. So it was, I showed up to my 10 year reunion. I noticed a couple of people that had name tags on. I didn't know. I didn't know it was my reunion, right?

I was just at the bar here. Oh, you just stopped at a bar. No, and I just noticed they all, you know the people had name tags. I wonder what's going on. So I saw some names.

I was like, I'm recognizing some of these people. And it was just out of coincidence that you showed. It was out of coincidence that I was there. And then they like sent an email like a like, I don't know, like four or five days later like, hey,

we didn't get everybody to the reunion, but we're going to do another one in however many years or whatever. And I was like, I was at my reunion. And I had no idea. I didn't even know it. So that's hilarious. You got to watch out.

Make sure you get invited. See, so now everything's like over Facebook. Whereas they have the invites and stuff. My, is it 10 year? No, no,

no, no. I was 2019. So 2024 was my five year. So I still got four years until my, my 10 year reunion. You got some time. Yeah.

I don't know. We'll see. I also don't know how I feel about high school reunions. Like, I don't know. There's a lot of people that I graduate with that are different now. So I just change. People change.

And they sure. Well, they might not show up. They might not show up. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I'm just the one that doesn't show up and I don't risk anything. Yeah. Well, I mean, part of it too is like, the people I want to stay connected with, I stay connected with.

Right. And that's the thing. Back in the day, it was like a surprise to get there like, oh, wow, this is what you've been doing. Oh my gosh. Tony's been here. Yeah. But now you know everything that everybody's been doing. Yeah.

Like, I don't need to go up there and be like, all right, so Jake, where are you living nowadays? Yeah. I don't know. And I also just, I also don't. Maybe this is a bad thing about me and I need, this is like part of the maturing piece that I still need to work on is like, I don't like to ask questions. when I don't want to know the answers. Like the small talk. Oh, yeah.

And stuff. I just, this makes me sound probably like a horrible person and I apologize. But like, I'm not going to just go up and be like, so what are you up to nowadays if I don't care? Does that make me sound bad? That does make you sound a little bit bad.

I mean, you got to do something. It's better. See, but then I just don't go. How about I just don't go? Yeah. I mean,

you could always do that. Okay, perfect. But again, that's the problem now. I don't hate people at all. It's just, I don't know. You're not interpersonal.

No, that's not it at all. Like, I'm very, I'm very outgoing. I like to talk to people. Yeah. Somebody says, oh, and so Nick hates people now. No, that's not it at all. It's just like, also 10 years removed. If we weren't, if you wanted nothing to do with me in high school,

don't sit here 10 years later and act like you want to talk now. So you're holding grudges too. No, no. I just, let's not be fake. Let's not be fake. Yeah. Like, because here's the thing, Bach, like in the business here, right? Is high school folks, people, people,

made fun of me because I would be doing podcast and okay you want to get vulnerable folks here we go I was doing podcast at 7 a.m. on Friday mornings people would make fun of me because I'd be doing it in the lunch cafeteria area well hey now now here we are Husker football games we talk to coaches we get to talk to players we get to do all these cool things part of our job yeah so now you want to be friends oh now it's not so funny Nick working on podcast in the

cafeteria okay so maybe now I make sense why I didn't get to I wasn't in the student sections because I was always doing the play-by-play for high school games at Pius. Yeah. People made fun of it. People, people joked around. Why would people make fun of you for having dreams and working in sports? I'm just telling you.

It's just like, like, crowd. Yeah. That's, that's the, that's the genuine answer. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. You can make fun of me back in 2017 and that's fine. But now here we are.

What are you doing? How's Walmart? Nothing against Walmart. Right. So I was never the cool kid, never tried to be the cool kid. Yeah. But once again, it just goes along lines of like, I won't ask questions to you that I don't really care about the answers and I hope you do the same to me. How have you been?

I don't care. I don't care. I would look at it and be like, all right, Buck, do you really want to know how I've been doing or are we just doing this because we have to? I'm just telling, I'm sorry. I don't think you should go to your area. You sound like maybe I should have a little bit disruptive. Maybe I should. I'm sorry.

Somebody says, is this shallow howl on the air with you, Buck? No, I'm not trying to be mean. This is somebody did say, unmasked text or says this means that you're a genuine person. I appreciate that. But like, there you go. That's what I'm getting at. Yeah. Don't be fake.

So you don't like movies. You don't like people. What do I like? What do you like? I like to play golf. Like pregnant people? No. No.

Well, you like joke around with pregnant people. Yeah. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. I like to have jokes. Yeah. So anyway, should we talk sports?

Well, back to my original. How do we get people to go to Spirit Halloween and buy these skulls? That's right. That's right. There's like skull masks there for like 10 bucks. I was there there there. I think that not only do I want it to be a blackout. I want people to be dressed up.

I want there to be heavy Halloween presents at the blackout of, for Nebraska, USC. You think there's a pretty good chance we get a lot of skeletons there? I don't know. Like I said, I think there's like four. You could do the whole throw the bones thing. Yeah. I don't know. The bone yard is the, I would assume the bone yard's coming out.

I would love to. Yeah. I would love, I would love to have, like, I like the welcome to your worst nightmare thing. Yes. Like, I would, I would say welcome that back. Yeah. Because what year did they do that? Was that, was that a long time now?

That was a night game, right? That would have been Miami in 2017. Or not 2017, 2018. No, no, no. Excuse me, 2014. Holy smokes. I'm not sure they didn't do that against UCLA like a decade ago. Wasn't it when they first wore the blacks?

Bach, that's, be careful what you're saying here. The black uniform. The question. The what? It's a trivia question. Oh, it's a trivia question. I don't know what it is. You have to come into the station to answer the trivia question.

Okay. You cannot answer the trivia question on air over the, but sometimes we will give you hints. And I must have just given a head. But I think that might be the case. Old Dad 34 says, wow, one heck of a rabbit hole, fellas. So welcome to your, okay, so let me. I can find this up or find this out.

I would be shocked if they did it in 2013 against UCLA because it was a day game. But I still, yeah, but I think because they were in black, I think that's when they did that with the Welcome to Your Worst nightmare, the banner or whatever. I don't know how often they've done it. Have we seen it here?

It would have been. Okay, so Wall Street Journal did a picture on it. And of course, the scoreboard's clipped out. It is Miami. It was Miami. It was Miami. It was 2014.

That's still a decade old. That was the year that that Nebraska played Miami at home. Brad Kaya, Duke Johnson Jr. Philip Dorset was there. Younger, Philip Dorset. I think he was like Philip Dorset the fourth. That's the third.

An older for Philip Dorset. I guess I suppose there is. Is that what they had a? Oh, the second. Philip Dorset the second. So was their edge rusher. Didn't they have a pretty big time edge rusher?

It was wrong. I can't remember from Miami that game. But anyways, that was one of the big games. Oh, oh, hold on. Hold on. Nebraska versus Miami 2014.

This would be good. Actually. Yeah. They had an edge. Okay, so Miami, so Brad Kaya threw three Tuddy touchdowns, two picks, Duke Johnson, 18 carries, 93 yards. Amir Abdullah, how about this stat line? Oh, I remember this one. 35 carries, 229 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

35 carries. You hear that image, Johnson? That's what we need for me this week. Wow. That's something. That is, that's a lot. 35 carries 229 and two touchdowns. How about this?

Just continuing to churn yards. his longest run of the night was 26 yards. It wasn't like he broke one for 80. I mean, he was just steady. And there was big pressure going into that game to basically outperform Duke Johnson on the other side. That's right. The top running backs in the age. Duke Johnson had 18 carries for 93 yards in a touchdown.

How about this? The backup running back, I did not know this. The backup running back for Miami that year was Gus Edwards. Okay, I didn't know that either. I had no idea there. I did not know that either. They do not have tackles on this. Okay.

I can be right. I mean, I know Randy Gregory, like a personal founder. I thought they had somebody decent on the offensive line. I think they had a decent time or defense line. I think it was. Oh.

No, that's Miami Dolphins. Miami Hurricanes. Now I'm second guessing myself because maybe I was just thinking of Randy Gregory. I think maybe he had a good match. Yeah. I think it was, I think it was just Randy Gregory.

Yeah. So anyway. Anyway, that was a great game. I remember that was a great game. Yeah. That was one of the best games. People will still say that's one of the loudest games that they've been to.

And I remember just the TV broadcast because the way that Nebraska dominated that game, as you mentioned with the mere so many yards rushing, Brock Heward just really kind of went off there. I think it was, you know, with the last couple quarters or whatever, Nebraska kind of got the lead. Buck, we're going to stay here. We're going to go past break. We have breaking news.

We do. Nebraska. And coach Matt Ruhle has signed a two-year contract. extension this morning. This is according to Pete Thamel of ESPN. Nebraska coach Matt Rule signed a two-year contract extension this morning, which will take him through the 2032 season. It includes, how about this? It includes a $15 million buyout this year that effectively eliminates him from any jobs in this coaching cycle. That is from Pete Thamel of ESPN. So once again, their Nebraska coach, Matt Ruhle signed a two-year contract extension this morning.

which will take him through the 2032 season. It includes a $15 million buyout this year that effectively eliminates him from any jobs in this coaching cycle. Now, I would say this. There was a lot of news last night, right? There was a lot of reports at that time as of 1040. According to very close people that were involved in the situation, involved in the conversation, it was not signed.

As of this morning at 9 a.m., it was not signed. So this has been something that obviously has been going back and forth. And Nebraska ends up locking up their head coach for an additional two years, 2032 season. I said it earlier on the drive. It was going to be way too affordable for Penn State or any other school to come in this season and basically take Matt Rule away. Here he is.

He gets signed to a two-year extension, $15 million buyout this year if he leaves, which is a lot for a coach, for an organization that would be paying 50 million already for to fire their previous head coach. And it looks like every year Nebraska makes the college football playoff, which hopefully is at least once, his base salary for each year on the deal increased by a million. So yeah, still kind of figuring out things going on here.

This is, this is big news. It's the news everybody's kind of been winning. It is. And I think it's, it's important to note that there's probably a lot of incentives here. I think it's good that if Nebraska gets, has incentives.

It forces them to then once again, it holds them accountable, right? Like it doesn't screw Nebraska financially, but it holds them accountable. P. Yeah, as you said, right, contract includes an innovative clause that where every time Nebraska qualifies for the cultural playoff,

his base salary for each year on the deal increases by $1 million. Rule salary has an average of more than $11.7 million a year including retention bonuses and does not include a change in base comp in the current deal. Rules two additional years are at $12.5 million, the same as the final year of his deal that ran in 2030. The deal remains 90% guaranteed. Rule is currently top 15 in salary in the country.

In 27, he'll make $11 million with retention bonuses. So there you go. This is what I would say, though, also. somebody on the text line goes, resigning rule right before a big game rubs me the wrong way. Watch we get boat raced on Saturday after extending him. Bach, the big reason why you do it is, number one, he's about to talk to the media in less than five minutes.

Number two is you have about 50 visitors from the 2027, 2008 class. You have current commits that are making your way. It's going to be the biggest recruiting weekend this season for Nebraska. The ability to go and tell those recruits, hey, I'm here, and we're not staying, we're not going anywhere. I understand Penn State's on the market. I'm not going anywhere to be able to say that.

It will provide value in these conversations, especially as you are going for and trying to get the commits of a lot of the guys that are also being recruited by Penn State and you're being recruited by LSU and Florida. A lot of these are similar schools going after them that don't have head coaches. If now Nebraska can somewhat negatively recruit against those schools, but then also in turn positively and give them a sense of confidence that Matt Rule is going to be here, it makes it a lot easier to keep those relationships strong and tie together. And that's part of the big picture.

And I think that's what people need to remember here. Nebraska could get boat race by USC. But I think Nebraska's already, and I'm not predicting that, I'm just saying it certainly could happen. But Nebraska's already accomplished the minimal goal, I think, for the season, right? Which was to get bowl eligible. And you could say that's not a big deal or whatever. Since 2016, they didn't get to a bull. They brought him back to get to the ball.

I mean, he's on pace to keep moving. the program forward. We already know it's one of the youngest programs. Regardless of what happens this year, you finish nine wins, eight wins, seven wins. It's your first year with these coordinators in place. So there's a lot of reasons to look at this and say, okay, this is the right move. The other thing is there's no, there's no language in this contract or any numbers that I'm hearing that are substantially higher than what his regular contract was. And that's what worried me. Right. And this is where way back when when this thing kind of came and everything was going on with Nebraska and Penn State in that whole situation.

That's what I was worried about. I said we're going to learn a lot about Troy Danon. Troy Danon was a little bit of a wild card still and stuff. And in terms of decisions like this. This is as big, Troy Danans right in his legacy as we speak, right? And because we tie athletic directors to the decisions they make with coaches and whether that's hiring, extensions, buyouts, whatever it may be, firings as well. We were going to learn a lot about Troy Danin.

This excites me for what Nebraska could be with Troy Danin because it was how can you figure out a way to secure your coach without blowing everything up and without giving away the farm, right? Guess what? You know what comes to Nebraska with the college football playoff appearance? Way more than a million dollars.

That's a million dollar raise or whatever, or bonus if you make the college ball playoff is a drop in the bucket in comparison to the amount of revenue that Nebraska as an organization will get to bring in. The thing that I was concerned about, and I think a lot of Husker fans can share this same sentiment, is the thing that I was concerned about

is giving him a $2, $2, $2 million raise every year on top of his contract, pay him as a top five coach in the country, and you have no responsibility or accountability, no incentives to win eight games. Like, that's your goal, right? No, like this incentive-based contracts or something player-wise, coach-wise,

I'm a massive fan of because guess what? If Nebraska wants to pay Dylan Ryola $3 million or whatever the amount is, NIL-wise, and he gets you to a college football playoff, the amount of revenue that you make offsets it by a million. I mean, it is not even close to the amount of revenue that Nebraska is going to be able to make if they make the college ball playoff.

This is great. I think this is as good as of a deal and as an extension as you could have hoped for if you're a Nebraska fan. Well, and I think, too, I mean, there's also the thought process of Matt Rule and maybe a little bit of the concern with the Penn State job being open is maybe they could get him a $30 million roster, $40 million roster that he's talking about. The other idea is if they, you know, we're going to really lay it on to Matt Rule and making, like you said, a top five paid coach. It's going to be like, okay, well, you can't say, say all that in one hand. And then on the other hand, demand more and more money. This is, again, good money, good money for any of us, but for in the college football, still good money, right?

he's already being paid well, but it locks them up, which was something they especially needed to do before the Penn State game. Because that was going to be wild if they didn't do that. But we'll see. Maybe it gives them a little bit of a, especially for the football team, you know, 100% focused now on USC, not that it wasn't there before, but there's always a little bit of a distraction with this kind of going on on the side. And here's the other part of it.

And people could say, well, what happens if Nebraska gets boat raised by USC? what happens at the opposite? If Nebraska beats USC, all of a sudden, not only is he, which he was, already the favorite to be the Penn State job, but that stuff would talk up, you know, would ramp up. And then, you know, maybe at that point you might be paying a little bit more. So very interesting stuff. Matt Rule has finally, I shouldn't say he has finally done it.

We've just been reported for a while. Yeah. Matt Ruhl finally signed to a two-year contract extension. I would also add that I would put the expectation that with this, I'm fielding some thoughts as well on this. Sounds like I would imagine that there is a pretty large commitment to funding roster as well. I would assume so. I think that's that's kind of what it sounds like as I've kind of gauged the situation here.

Yeah, it sounds like there's been, and I don't have, I don't have official numbers, but it sounds like, and Matt rule is strategic and he came out a couple of weeks ago and talked about it, but it sounds like through some of the things that I'm, I'm being told, I hear hearing, I don't want to, I hate sounding like this. No, yeah, Adam Schifter, go ahead. No, no, that's, I hate sound like this, but it does, it does sound like there's been, there's large commitments made to funding the roster at an NIL level for Nebraska, which does not surprise us, right? Like, I think, I think Matt Ruhl is strategic and smart enough to where he would not sign an extension, two and a half weeks after three weeks, I don't know, timelines are kind of all over the place.

But after he just talking about how much it costs to fund a roster and stuff like that and how much Nebraska needs to buy into it and stuff. I would be shocked to hear that if it wasn't laid out officially with them of like, hey, this is the goal that we're going to reach to get you to every single year for money to spend for on a roster and roster, you know, confirmation or roster contributions.

I would imagine that that's a pretty big part of this thing. Yeah, I would think so too. Again, from from rules side, that sounds like it might not be in the $30 million range, but it might be somewhere close. Yeah.

All right, let's take quick break. We've got plenty more to talk about with the big news of the day. Matt Ruhl signing that extension. We'll be back more with one-on-one on 93-7. The ticket.