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Episode Date: October 3, 2025

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and we fully invite you to stop by. If you don't have any account with them, you don't need one, but they may try to convince you, you know, as they probably should. Bach, we're talking about Big Ten coaches, Big Ten coaches. And within, and again, in the weekly reports, there are, they have the list of coaches, their record, coaching records, and their records in the Big Ten.

So, Bach, of the 18 current head coaches in the Big Ten, conference, how many of them do you think have an above 500 coaching record in the big 10, in the big 10? Trying to do some quick addition here. So think

about it. I mean, Bealma Sigmundi, Ferenz, Loxley, Moore, Smith, Fleck, Rule, Braun, Day, Laning, Franklin, Odom, Chiano, Skipper, Riley, Fish, Fickle. How many of the 18 have

above winning record. So at least one game above 500 as far as winning coaches. The easy out is just to say nine because that would be half, you'd expect half the conference to win, half the conference to lose. But as I count through it,

I think that might be close to my guess because I would think that Signetti does, that Laning does. That's two, so I'll count on my fingers here, that Ryan Day does. I think Sharon Moore would. would. PJ flex questionable. Laked Riley.

Those are tough calls. I'll put those to the side for a second. I would say Bilema probably does. Farron's does. And then James Franklin obviously does. I'm going to go with eight. Okay. So remember, I keep educating folks, the law of

thirds. The law of thirds. A law, the law of thirds. that there are six on one side of the spectrum, six on the other side of the spectrum, and then six, meh in the middle, right? Fair.

Brett Bealma, 19 games over, or 19 games over 500. 19 games in conference? 57 and 38 in the conference. Count him as one. Kurt Signetti, nine games over 500 at 10 and one.

Yes. Kirk Farrant. he is 39 games over 500, 129 and 90 in the Big 10 conference. Michael Loxley. No. Sharon Moore, he is two games over 500 at 6 and 4 at 6 and 4.

Still trying to figure out which games he coaches and which one's not. Yeah, how are you getting credit, right? Right. Biff is getting current credit for wins. Or at least I think he is. is. Jonathan Smith, no. He is four games under 500. PJ Fleck, P.J. Fleck, Minnesota, one game under 500 at 35 and 36. Matt Rule.

We have to do this one? We do. Those are the rules. No, no, seven games under 500. David Braun, Northwestern, four games under 500. Ryan Day, 42 games over 500 at 47 and five. Dan Lannning. Undefeated in the Big Ten at 11.0. James Franklin, 30 games over 500. 64, 34. Tim Skipper, no. Lincoln Riley.

50-50 ball. He's a 500 coach at 6 and 6. Jed Fish, Washington, 5 and 6. Luke Fickle. still needs a quarterback. He went to stay healthy. He went to get dudes. I know.

He couldn't keep Bradd Billy Edwards healthy. Do you think, I mean, there's not, I mean, there's other areas of Wisconsin that could improve and get better and keep his job there. But is he getting a fair look? I mean, because his quarterbacks are getting injured every year. It is your job to protect him, sir. It is absolutely a part of the job description. No, okay.

To protect your players. at all costs. I mean, trying to figure out, one, your strength training, your physical trainers, all those people, right, to do whatever. And it is maybe the thing that we don't talk about enough when we talk about college athletics are the people who are responsible for crafting, curating, creating the bodies for you to do the thing that you were brought to that university and that program to do. So as a quarterback, in fickle system. Now, that's a little different than if you're zone reading yourself to death, right? That if you're a runner, the Adrian Martinez era, let us know that there is a responsibility to getting your player, getting and keeping your player healthy enough to play the game the way they need to play it in your system.

So if you're going to ask Adrian Martinez to run it 20 times, you have to change his body so that it can withstand taking the pounding. I'm not sure they did that. And that's, I'm not sure that's the thing. Wisconsin has that problem. There are coaches who are trying to figure out how to manage their quarterbacks, their receivers. How you train your offensive left tackle is not the same as how you develop your quarterbacks. You're running games and receivers have different skill sets and different needs.

So you've got to train them, develop them differently. That's part of it, right? Imagine you gave the same workout plan to your punter as you do your starting center. things wouldn't necessarily go well. So it's a part of the responsibility of the head coach to pick the right trainers, to pick the right strength trainers, to pick the right therapist, right, because that's a part of it as well, those people that help them recover, the nutritionists, if you're sharing you nutritionists,

and you're the big breadwinner. I mean, think the people that are in charge of Nebraska's nutrition training, they're spread pretty thin because they're doing it, at such a high level. But the other programs in the athletic department require that as well. Now, it certainly helps that men's men's and women's tennis only have eight players for you to take care of. So you can fold them into what you're doing. But you still got the band.

You still got cheerleaders. You still got the Scarlets. Like you've got a lot. So it's a part of the deal for you to be there. Yeah, they counts the days, Beelma's days at Wisconsin. But that was the thing. If you have success, people like talking about Big Ten football, what that means?

Well, that changes and that evolves, right? The Big Ten football game from eight years ago isn't the same as it is now. And as it evolves, the top programs evolve quickest and best. Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon have figured out how to evolve. Indiana is currently changing the way Big Ten football identifies itself and its top competitors.

Right? Because what is what Indian, if we said five years ago, Indiana football, we'd have shrug the shoulders and went, we can't do that now. And now we have to figure out why. Because if they're having success

in the Big Ten conference, everybody else has to figure out how they're doing it. Right? We're not counting Indiana as a football factory. We're not counting them as the program with the greatest resource. So what are they doing? That's why I asked you what Sigetti was doing.

Have we figured that out? Because that's what's moving the needle in the Big Ten conference. That's the teams at the bottom third have to scout Kurt Signetti. Because he's showing you there's a way. There's the way to take a bottom third program and team in the Big Ten Conference and turn it into an actual contender. So everybody else has to pay attention.

And you know who pays attention the most? People at the top of the conference. Because here they come. Here comes Indiana. What's Signetti doing? And that's how you get got. That's how you get got. There's some teams that didn't know,

okay, what does Oregon football look like in the Big Ten? What looks undefeated in the Big Ten? And you better figure out, if you're trying to win the Big Ten, Ohio State, Michigan had to figure it out. Wisconsin got caught. They got caught. Penn State's trying to figure out, look, they changed it. They changed the look of the wide receivers.

They changed some of the play calling. They changed some of the development and some of the schemes. They're trying to win the Big Ten Conference. there are still programs that are trying to compete in the Big Ten conference, right? I'll ask you this, Bach, and it is in Texan long, y'all can chime in as well. Is Nebraska competing to be good in the Big Ten, great in the Big Ten, or win the Big Ten? Honestly, is Nebraska a contender in the Big Ten conference? Bob?

Not that they don't have aims for that, but I don't think realistically at the point. So do they have the likelihood, the presence, the development, the coaching, the talent to be in the top three in the Big Ten? Again, I think they're working toward that. Top six in the Big Ten. I think you can say that, yeah. Would you currently put Nebraska's program top six in the Big Ten conference? I'd probably put them closer to eight, nine. Okay, right? Then you're trying to get good. like to go from, we understood they were sick of being in the bottom third, right? So let's get out of the bottom third.

Let's get to the middle third. And then getting to the middle third, there are all sorts of disclaimers and parameters to that, right? On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is it that in the next year, the next, let's say the next 16 football games, that Nebraska reaches top third status. Bach, what say you? If you haven't looked at next year's schedule, it is going to be considerably more difficult.

And I think that would lower the likelihood. That's why, I mean, they've got to take the jump here this game, not this game, but in these next couple of games, because the time is now. The schedule is going to get significantly more difficult next year. There's no more Purdue's and Northwestern's UCLA's to kind of cover it up and give you some big 10 wins there. Not that they were beating all those teams when they needed to. But it's, so, I mean, I think the likelihood is, I mean, we got to see it. They've got to be able to not only compete with the Penn States and the U.S.

and the Iwas, but cross the line, get some wins. And so, I mean, I think there's, I think there's a chance. But right now, that's why I kind of still think of Nebraska as a growing program, not necessarily as a competitor. The text line says this, Nebraska is not a contender. They seem like they only care about making money and not winning. They go further to say Nebraska. is top three financially, but in the two main men sports basketball and football,

their bottom three in winning. So the bottom third of winning, you can elevate, right? Because the seven win season puts you firmly in the middle, right? You're in the middle six. But you're in the bottom half of the middle third, right? Truth be told. How likely is it? And are we asking too much of this football team to think that,

they're entitled to beat Michigan State because Michigan State has its own goals and aspirations. What say you, Bach, are we giving too much or should this be the expectation? I think, again, at some point you do want to move the goalpost forward, and I think that's the hope. And I think that's what is kind of in that 11-half point spread is Nebraska, you can say what you want about the Houston Christian and Akron games and lack of competition. But they made it look like they didn't belong in the field with them, right? And Nebraska hasn't historically done that. Now the next step, Michigan State, a team should be better than by many metrics, make it look like that on the field.

Am I ready to believe in that? Particularly with Michigan State, I have a little bit of a fear because two years ago, Nebraska needed one win to get to, this is Matt Rule, this is not years past, had a chance to get to a bowl game and lost a Harlem Burnett, who was an interim coach and Michigan State was on a six-game losing streak. So again, that's why every next game we always say is the most important, but there's always a story within those game about why this situation has been ailing Nebraska in the recent year.

Yeah, it is, it is. And I think it is interesting and we have to be careful at the same time. You want to project forward, but you also want to have eyes currently where you stand and then recognize in the past, like the date. that got us here in the thinking that we have, right? There's tons of data. We have more data on what was than what will be. We can hope, like, we don't have all the data on what we're actually seeing.

We don't know. The story's untold. As the movie plays itself out, we'll have more information, but it's always, you know, we watch movies and we try to figure out what the end is. You watch a murder mystery. It's like, let me see if I can figure out who did it and how they did. get it. We're not always right. We're not always right. If you want to talk top third, right? So in thirds, I think it's fair to say Rutgers, UCLA, Wisconsin, Purdue, Washington are

five of the bottom six. Currently. Currently. Right. Even at three and one, Washington is three and one for the season. Nebraska, Northwestern, Michigan State, Iowa. Depending on how the games go this weekend, one of those teams may slip into that bottom third. You don't want to be a part of it. Get a win this week so you can at least stay in the middle third with the opportunity of moving up to the top third. And I think the top third in fairness, Indiana, Oregon, Maryland, Ohio State,

you can say the four win teams or you can add Penn State and say that's a fifth since they're ranked in the top five. If Penn State is number five, then it's Michigan, Minnesota, USC, Illinois, as the next group may be Nebraska, maybe Nebraska, because that's where that middle six is coming.

And there's value in that because you could end up at the music city bowl. At least that's what we're told. We'll go to break, we'll close out one-on-one, get you all set of Bradford character. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.