1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Husker Football TE Luke Lindenmeyer - July 8th, 2025

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

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Yeah, here's the thing, being, being a local high school player who grew up watching this and doing this, but I always tell people, your first time a student, there's no chance I can get to everything I want to ask you over the course of the hour, which is why we also offer you your own show so that you can tell people these stories yourself. In order for folks to know who you are, they have to know who you, come from. You come from a family that's rock solid. Please talk to our listeners about your family. So my family, my mom, Cynthia, my dad, Vince, and then I got an older sister, Carly. And my mom was a minister growing up. So I always went to church. And I would always listen to her preach every week.

And just grew up around a loving family who instilled a good faith in me. So I was lucky to have a strong foundation of my faith and just believe and entrusted in God. And, you know, they were both in the military. And my mom was in the military, but she had retired when she was pregnant with me. And my dad served another like 18 years. And he retired, I want to say, when I was in middle school. And we ended up here. I was actually born in West Point, New York.

and we moved around, ended up in Papillon, Nebraska when I was in third grade. And I just stayed in that area, went to Papillon-Livista High School. And, yeah, kind of followed the footsteps on my sister where she went to school. And she went to Colorado State, and now she's married in Arizona right now. What's the family mantra? What are the things that are said most in the Lyndon-Meyer household? Um, my dad always taught me to take initiative when I was, when I was little and always like household chores, doing the dishes, blowing the lawn, like not having him tell me to do it, but just take an initiative and just doing it without anybody having to tell me. And I feel like that that's like the biggest blessing I could have had because I took all of that and just transformed it into football and training and just working hard.

and earning everything. But football wasn't your first love. No. That's the first love. He's a hooper. I am. He's a hooper. So talk to me about Luke Lindenmeier, the hooper.

Well, I played that since, that was the first sport I played. I'm pretty sure. I didn't play tackle football until sixth grade. And I played basketball. I love basketball. I wanted to go to college for basketball. It wasn't until like my softball. year or my high school coach convinced me to go all in all in for football I actually wasn't

going to play football my sophomore year and I was just going to try to go all in on basketball and yeah but I remember coming here third grade and I was going into fourth grade I was trying out for a new like local junior monarchs team and the bill in LeVista and it's actually funny how it all worked out eric Ingerson his dad uh mike ingerson was the coach of the team. He never saw me before and he said, he still tells me the story to this day. He saw me catch a ball and just do one, two, layup.

And like he's never seen like a big fourth grader to do that. Something simple as that. And then, yeah, I played with Eric's older brother, Kyle and we're sitting. And we played together all throughout high school. And, you know, my hoop dreams are still alive. Well, you know, we have a basketball show. Sam Hoyberg is in there. and he is also of the walk-on makeup, right?

So he understands the discipline and the hard work required to do that. So, and there have been times here in recent Husker history where athletes crossed over. Brent Banks was, he got the phone call. You know, hey, so I'm not sure that it's out of reach for you. That may be a thing. I'm ready. Describe your game. Describe your game.

Like if you would describe your basket, your who, game. Who do you play like? My teammates say I play like Luca. Smooth. Nothing crazy, nothing too flashy. I'm really, I'd rather shoot the three than drive. Okay. I actually challenged Connor's season to a three-point contest. How to go? Not good. I don't want to make excuses, but I did, I did, I did do a boxing workout before.

I don't know why I did it. I thought if I woke up early enough and did a boxing workout before that my arms would be ready, but they were not. So actually, I talked to him about a rematch, rematch coming up, hopefully. I think we need to cover it. That would be, that would be awesome. We need to do it live. Like, we need to do it live. And we have, we have you against Connor and let it happen.

Through all of it, football has figured out that, that the titan position is kind of the ideal spot for, for basketball athletic big men. And what are you? Six, five? six three six three what do you walk what's your walk around right wait right about now like 250 250 and is that what you're going to play at or do you think you probably around there upper little you're comfortable with that at 250 yeah you like that way that's you don't have the desire to go to 260 just to be able to push people around in the big 10 uh i mean i i think i played around 260 for some games last year yeah just because i was enjoying food a little bit too much well well you it's you you're

You have the best meal plan in all of the big tech. It's insane. We are so blessed out. Like we have our NFL guys come back here and like, dang, I miss this. It's a different world now. What's your what's your caloric intake? Like, what do you put in? I have no idea.

I do not count my calories, but I do focus. I haven't, this summer I've been locked in and I kind of like staying away from sweet treats. Yeah. Because I love me some chocolate and some ice cream. Don't say that on air because it'll show up here. Our listeners, the moment you tell them what your vice is, they're coming. Hey, I'm going to stay strong. And Harrison will tell you there have been a lot of athletes who have come and done shows here.

And our kitchen where we get food delivered every day. And the athletes know that secondary meal, that third meal, fourth meal, they just go in our kitchen and they make a to-go box. And like today was tipsy Tina's. Yeah, so it's just, we got to warn you. We also got that Beatrice's bakery, so don't spend too much time looking at that when you're getting coffee from the bill. Yeah, Luke, Luke, Luke, we give you warning. That's all.

Like, we give you warning because we don't want you to go through. Luke Lindelmaia joins me here on one-on-one, and again, I'm appreciative of the young man, and I wanted to spend the first segment talking about some of these mission statements because it is important. I come from a family of ministers, so I understand how important it is. How do you cope with that?

that in a world of college football, it's not always ideal to be that young man, like to have that much faith and to be loud and proud about it. How do you carry that? Because that is a strong, powerful statement to say that, you know what? This is what I come from and this is who I am. I mean, yeah, it's just, you know, I believe in God and Jesus Christ for dying for my sins. And, like, if I know that, like, why would I hide that? Why would I not want to live that out?

and I went to a conference in January after the bowl game and there was an analogy made that, you know, if you're working at a company and say that you have the answer to like all of your employees, all your customers needs, and all your only job is to press the send button, that's like the same thing that we have. Like we know the good news. And there's a lot of people out there that don't know the good news. news. So why would we not just tell, and why would we not, like, live it out? And then Coach Brown actually mentor me, like, all the time I've been here. And he said, when people see how Luke's

living, they want to be like, dang, what's he got? It is a part of why Coach Brown and I have the relationship that we do. And he comes in, whatever he has time, it's off season. And we have these conversations. And always being able to transfer to athletics and the grind, the grind. The grind is what either highlights your faith or highlights the fact that it doesn't exist. And it's important for young people, especially here in Nebraska, to be able to say, you know what, this is who I am and this is what we're doing. Through all of that, your journey into this thing, in choosing Nebraska, I love to ask Nebraska athletes this question.

Why Nebraska? Why did you choose Nebraska? Well, at the time, um, the only offer I had. actual offer from, you know, a good school was Army West Point. And you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just low keyed Army West Point. I just want to point. Yeah, my parents might not be happy. I just want to, you just like, yeah, low key, uh, you know, West Point. But I had that and then a prefer walking from Nebraska. Okay. And I had like two sides of people telling me different things from high school.

I go to Army. Like it's guaranteed money. It's guaranteed job out of college. And both my parents went there. I'd be falling in their footsteps, be a great story. And then I had, you know, other people telling me like, like you could, you could really do this thing. And the main person telling me that who believed in me when I didn't believe

myself was my mentor, Yano Jones, who passed away around this time last year. Yeah, just recently. And, yeah, like him instilling that belief in me. me even when like I didn't even think I could play college football around my junior year like it was when people started reaching out to to high school for recruited from colleges and like I didn't really hear that much and I was starting to wonder like can I even can I even play like at a at a high level and he's the one who was like I was at his garage he had a little garage in his house and I was working out sweating so hard he he made that thing so he made that thing so he

humid and he was talking about draft day for the NFL. I was like dude I don't even I don't even have an offer for college day we're talking about the NFL draft and that's just how much like belief he had on me so with all that I decided to take a chance on myself and come come here and do something special playing the Big Ten play at the place where I grew up in and surround myself with people that I grew up playing with too. Gage Stanger, the first team I played on in sixth grade, he was on it. So once he, I think once he flipped from K-State to Nebraska, I was like, dang, what if I, what if I played with some people that I knew? That's kind of cool.

Is that missed in the recruiting conversation, like the connection to people? Maybe. I don't know. I wasn't all in the recruiting thing, but I think, for me at least, I would, I would. would want a familiar face of where I'm going to. I mean, there's other people who want like a fresh start new beginning, but like I like having that fresh face. So when I could connect with right off the bat and then build other connections off of that. Talk to me. You mentioned Yano Jones. Talk to me about the late great Mr. Jones because his impact. I mean, he positively affected

a large portion of this community. What was he to you? He was like my football dad because my dad was he was a great dad but he never really understood like football that much and like my athletic journey as much as he did and no he just took me in as like a son like right away and like the first day I met and I remember who the heck is this guy like I'm coming to his garage to work out and then he just treated me like family from the get go he called me all the time ask how I'm doing He would just, he just cared about me so much, not only as a football player, but as a person. And he allowed me to just be me. And even when I got here, you know, he kept calling me every week, asking how I was doing, what I was doing, kept encouraging me.

And when I was a freshman, that whole summer, they put out a list of who was going to be in fall camp, who wasn't? And all summer I wasn't on that list until the last day. And Yano just was calling me, stay in that playbook. You're going to be, you're going to be ready. Stay ready. They're going to call you. And, you know, you get my hopes up. And when I could have easily just tumbled and gave up on it, he picked me up.

I heard a thing said about you. And it stopped me. I've been around the game for a long time. it's been a minute since I heard somebody identified as 10th string. 10th street. It was actually more than that. Right. Like, it stopped me in my tracks to say, I mean, we understand the walk-on game

and that it is a positional situation as well, because some situations have deeper depth charts than others, right? You don't have 10 quarterback, right? It's just not there. But to be that deep down, even as a walk-on, on you're right you have to have some belief faith and a support system that pushes you and then you have to have the work ethic you talk about that you're going to outwork do you think that you have to outwork everybody else is that a part of your thinking uh it was

which kind of brings to another point like that whole freshman year i saw all those like 11 or 12 guys in front of me whatever it was i was like I'm just going to be better than I'm going to do more than them. I'm going to keep watching them. And if I'm just, if I'm just better than them, then I'm good. But then it got to a point where I was just comparing myself all the time. And that mentally and spiritually just drained me. And it got to a point where I just felt like empty.

Like, why was I still doing this? And it wasn't until like last season or a year and a half ago where I started competing with myself actually. and instead of comparing like my my skill set and like how hard I'm working to someone else I'm compared to myself and just instead of looking at other people I was content with the effort that I put out because my 100% know it might be someone else as 80% because I just gifted so much more than me but if I know I'm giving it my all and like each rep I'm offering as a sacrifice to God and I'm just putting out all my effort because whatever I do whether I eat or drink, I do it all to the glory of God, then I know that I'm pleasing my creator.

Through all of this, right, that you change over the course of each work. They say, you know, the phrase, one percent better. But I think it's more than that because you're determining your work value. You know whether you're working hard or not. You know whether you're studying enough. You know if you're getting enough for us. And then you know if you know enough about what the Huskers want to do offensively, that you're set. That you're set.

Chaos can only exist when you don't know what's coming. How prepared are you? How much time in a week do you think you spend in a place? It's gone down over the years. I will admit. But my freshman year, I just remember we had a week off before fall camp. and I just went back home because we were moving out of our house because my parents moved to Florida once I came here they just booked it retired and I remember every day I would just

study the playbook I wouldn't I wouldn't like I didn't take it as a vacation because I knew what I was going into I knew I was going to be last I knew I was like every day I could be sent home and they would bring one of the older tight ends to replacement so I knew like I couldn't I couldn't don't afford to not know the plays. Like the playbook in my mind was the least, like that was the bare minimum to know the playbook. And if I didn't know that, then as a walkdown, I was screwed. Yeah, and it also wouldn't matter how talent you are.

If you don't know what, what that is. I think the big part of it is also identifying the academic workload. The coach and me always ask players pretty quickly in a conversation. What's your GPA? Because it tells me how you do anything is how you do everything. So, Luke, talk to me. What's the GPA? I think it was a 37, 8.

And where does that rank with you? Are you happy with it? I mean, I changed my major to finance. And that's a lot harder than business administration. So I'm pretty happy with it. Hey, listen, don't slight us business administration majors. Like we, there was, I actually was going to be an accounting major

and then baseball literally was like, no, we're going over to business administration. That's how that's going to work. So I understand. I do understand it. 378, that puts you in a very special category. I explain to people, and Harrison and I have had this conversation

that if you take the same level of talent and then show me the GPA, GPA changes the chart. It changes your location and elevation on the chart. Because your value to me is, I know that 23rd hour there's not going to be any Luke Lindenmeyer academic emergencies. I'll be able to trust you. I'll be able to rely on you. And you're not carrying the stress of, hey, coach, I'm not doing well over here.

Because if you're not doing it well in the classroom, it shows up in practice. Is that a fair assessment of how things process? Yeah. That, you know, as a coach, you just want to say to people, you are who you are. and how you work in the classroom shows up here and vice versa. And it's important. Look, we'll take a break. When we come back,

here's where I want to go with it because, as you say, if it's 10th team, 12th team, and then the movement up, I'll ask you why you moved up. What changed? Something had to change.

And whether it's knowledge, experience, or whatever it was, I'll ask you to fill me in on what it is. And then I'm going to ask you about some of your teammates. I'm going to ask you to give me the five hardest workers on this year. So, yeah, I've given you time over the break to work on your list. Luke Linda Meyer joining me here on one-on-one.

You're listening to One-on-One with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back to one-on-one on a Tuesday night live. I appreciate you guys hanging out with us. and it's been a great first segment. I kind of thought along the way that we often try to identify what a Husker is. And within Husker football, there's a lot of backward looking to glory, right, back what it used to be. While missing some of the quality young people who are in the program now, Luke, they're going to do.

be Husker fans who when they get to know you are going to go crazy over you because you are an example of everything that they want their young Huskers to be. Now, I'll ask you this question before we get into the toughness conversation. But what's it mean to be a husker to you? Well, I didn't really know what it meant that much. I honestly didn't watch Nebraska. Well, that's the point. That's why I asked the question.

I kind of knew. I didn't really watch Nebraska growing up. much. I mean, I came to a game. I came to the Akron game years ago. I lost that one. And you still came. That's it. You still, you still shut up. We were actually sitting on the Akron side because my dad had a friend from the military whose son played. So, but when I came here, it was just different because I didn't, I didn't really go to many games when I was getting recruit but thankfully yano brought me along yeah uh to some of them that he was invited to i guess tell the fans were just different i came to every home game my senior of high school and it was just

i never experienced anything like it before and i knew after it was Purdue 22 and i just like yeah i'm gonna come here because there's nothing like this like the fans the energy i didn't i even see the facilities yet the facilities are insane they elevate it's they elevate even more of this past year. But then you see the guys who have been here, the guys who have won national championships, the guys who have played pro and are coming back to speak,

every single one of them said they'd rather be playing here still than in the NFL. And that, I mean, that means something because a lot of times people, they'll use college as like a way to get to the NFL and that's it. But, I mean, Nebraska, this is a lifetime thing.

like I came here and I was like I'm going to finish my career here just because all the opportunities that I'll have let me ask you about your first time in an actual game dressed out coming through the tunnel like tunnel walk talk walk me through tunnel walk your first one as a husk oh that would have been the first game was Ireland I didn't suit it for that one that trip was amazing um but I think it was North Dakota it was either North Dakota Oklahoma and man the smoke it just cleared and then you just see roaring red and it's just it was insane I'm getting goosebumps right now just thinking about it and like you're speechless like there's nothing you do like every game now I didn't do this until like I got I kind of got used to I just take it all in I'll I'll do a circle like I'll just do a circle on running just to take it all in because I mean Bryce Benhart last year was the six year they kept saying this never gets old six six year doing it right right that that so much of it and and I think it shows wisdom that you're capturing it now

right that you're capturing it now and I guarantee you just gave goosebumps to every Husker fan that that that heard you talk about it because it's just it's what Husker fans think it's like, but to hear somebody say, yeah, this is actually what it's like, it's as cool as you think it's so cool. Is there anywhere you've been that was, you talked about Ireland? Talk to me about the Ireland trip, even not dressing out. I think not dressing out was a blessing because the day before the game, they had all the guys

who weren't dressing out, hike this mountain. And I think the strength coaches had no idea, like, how hard the hike was. there were some times where we were like vertically like climbing rocks and we just got on the top of the mountain and you can just see a view of like the entire island almost you can see the beach you see mountains and it was just amazing and just breathtaking like I I love to travel I want to travel a lot when I'm older and that was a free trip to Ireland amazing you had kind of put in the work already though yeah like it's there I that's really not bad head for a walk-up, right?

My first three months of me in college and I'm in Ireland. That was awesome. I mean, how hard are the camps? Talk to me about the camps. What's the most difficult thing about the camp? Fall camp. 100% is just every day. I've grown to actually kind of like it.

I don't know. It's my fourth year doing fall camp. But I remember freshman year and sophomore year, It was just like a football summer camp oasis. Like outside life, nonexistent. Like, you're just doing football every day, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. And you're just around the same guys and making a lot of memories. And you're tired.

Like, your body feels terrible. But, I mean, I know I'm like never going to do things like this again once my football career is over. So, I mean, it sucks now. but I mean, no discipline. Nobody enjoys discipline, but later, like, everybody receives the fruits that it has. Harrison and I talk about this quite a bit, and I say to him as a coach, you want to pay attention to how much somebody loves doing the hard stuff. Like, as a coach looking for athletes, how much do you love doing the hard stuff?

Because it tells me how you're going to get through your friction. Honestly, I hate it. Like I would much rather be building my Legos. Are you a, you're a Lego? I'm a Lego guy. Oh, I see.

But I think the hard work sucks. But it's like during it, but the feeling like after is just so worth it. Because you feel like you've done something. Like you went through something that was hard and you made it out. and you're here. Like you survived. I think a big stepping stone in my college career,

I read both of David Goggins books. And man, that guy went through some stuff and just the mentality he had. I think applying that to football has done tremendous things. Just worth it. You just said a thing that, again, tells me a lot that as a reader,

it puts you in a unique category of, Division one powerful football players. What else are you reading? The Bible. Yeah. I try to carry this pocket Bible around with me everywhere and just staying in the Word. There's a coach that came in, helped us. And we've been reading a Psalm every day since about today was day 99.

So 99 days ago, it was 150 days until the first game. There was 150 psalm. we were in a psalm a day and this month there's 31 days there's 31 proverbs i've been reading a proverbs a day what what is what is the what is the what is the song you're walking with right now that i'm walking with yeah um i say i'm praying the most through is psalm 3 5 through 6 trust in the lord with all your heart and lead not on your own understanding acknowledge him in all your ways and you'll make straight your paths and just giving my all to the lord and just trusting in him and not in my own way because there's another proverb 1412 or 1214.

I don't want to get mixed up, but says a man that follows his own ways, its path leads to death. And every time I like try to do something myself, I get never, it never works out. Every time I give it to God and let him work it out for me and then trust that path and just pray through everything. everything that's all worked out so far and worked through it i'm just i'm telling y'all that in the discussion about having luke linda mire on i immediately went to that he cannot just be here once he has to have regular conversation because to find and harrison we've been doing this together off and on for five years and we harrison knows that i'm a pretty good judge engage yeah it's worked pretty well so far i mean you were hanging out

with the wrestlers a lot this summer and you got two national champions. Wait to identify, to identify, have you met AJ Ferrari? Yeah, I met him in the training room and he's, he's a guy. Yeah, he, I mean, it's always interesting to me that you don't have to be the same, but you do have to have same core. And the fact that people of similar core tend to magnate to each other. They get to each other pretty quickly and they accumulate. I think that's what's happening in this program.

And you give me faith and you give me hope in this program because they're good young man in it. Luke Lindenmeyer joining me here on one-on-one. The challenge is this, Luke? Make your own list. It's Luke's list of five. So the five toughest, the hardest working teammates. So to make it fair, I decided to do all walk-ons.

Okay. And you could not be wrong by this list. And first I'm going to go with my guy. He actually just moved in with me two days ago in my house. Jalen Gramstead. Just a guy who came in last year, short, shorter on the quarterback side. But man, he is a worker. Like, anytime I need someone to throw, he's always willing.

And he's just like a guy willing to serve. And as soon as he moved in to my house, he was like, yeah, we're going to fix up the basement. The basement's a little messy. we're going to be grilling out back. I'm going to be mowing the lawn. And I was just like, wow, I'm glad to have a guy like you in my life. Harrison, you take a note, right? Yeah, I'm taking note.

We're not letting Luke and his roommate. Luke and Dillon need to be on the regular call list. Right? They're going to be grilling out back. Like, there's things that we need to know. Yeah, Jalen Graham's dad. Okay. And then I'm going to go with another one of my roommates who was one of my better friends.

My freshman year, we always hung out in the suites. And he's been through a little. lot to get here uh dylan parrot and he's just been a walk on and you know hasn't really got what he what he's earned really just because of uh short short of scholarships and stuff but he still just goes to work every day probably one of the strongest and fastest bigs like he is a freak of nature like we do dexas like body scans his muscle mass is more than like a lot of NFL How big is he? How big is he?

He's like 3.20. I don't want to be wrong. His muscle, he's 320 with like less than 20% body fat. So I don't know what that math is, but it's insane. Get it in, bro. Get it in. And then I'm going to go with another guy in my class that I walked on with, Rowan Mancini, who, you know, hasn't really seen the field much at all,

other than some special teams that he's worked his way on. but another guy who hasn't really been paid at all, but it still comes to work every day. Everybody in the locker room loves him. He always has a smile on his face. Like, you always talk to him. It's like those kind of guys. Like,

you know that they probably aren't getting what they deserve, but they're still, like, have that smile on my face and still coming to work. Well, they get to be a Husker and to be around it because they're getting better in their lives every day that they do this thing. And that 105,

number people want to play with it and try to but i say the people behind it matter more and the fact that people choosing to be a part of the program and putting in the work tells me speaks volumes about walk-ons who's walk-on number four jacobauer who's not a walk-on anymore and he deserves to be on that list because every every day he is just always doing something getting extra working i actually just today we were doing a grip workout he was doing a grip workout and i wanted to join him I want to get some extra work out and just want to go home. And it was so hard. But it was just the craziest thing.

It was like curling a bar bow with there was a kettle attached with the band and you're curling it up until the kettlebell like reached the top. And you do that three times. Like I never worked out my forearms like that before. And this guy does like extra stuff like that every single day. And like as I was leaving today, he was just getting done from the weight room. I was like, hey. So he's definitely on that list.

And then the last guy has been my lifting partner all summer. He's a tight end. Danny King. And he's another walk on from Minnesota. And I kind of saw a little bit of myself in him last year, just being a walk on being at the bottom. And he's got some savviness. to him. Like, he can run routes. He's, he's a tough kid and he's a hard worker. He challenges me in the weight room. And that's hard to do as a second year guy lifting with a fourth year guy.

It is, it is fascinating that your journey from not knowing if this was going to be your life and then to making it your life and then actually growing and excelling in it. And now it appears that you're in a leadership role. Yeah. It was actually amazing God moment. It was one of the first weeks back in January or February. And I was in that leadership role. Like I was so used to being behind Thomas and Nate that, you know,

I was just content with being like that third guy, like, plays, but doesn't really have to do any leading because he got two older guys in front of them. But then I was putting a whole new situation. I don't think I was ready for it, but I went to a church service, and the message was in Joshua 1. And it was Joshua being like the new leader to take Israel out of the promise, or to the promised land. And the preacher just said, Moses is dead. Moses is dead.

Like, Joshua, it's your time. Be strong and courageous. Be strong and courageous. It says be strong and courageous multiple times in Joshua 1. I thought he was speaking right to me because I had no idea. I would be ready for this role. The Lord says, be strong and courageous. Moses is dead.

As my brother, the pastor would say, let him use you. Uh-huh. Let him use you, Luke. We're going to go to break. We'll come back. One more segment with Luke Lynn by here on one-on-one. You're listening to One-on-One-on-one with DP. Sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937, the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com.

Final segment before we handed over to ticket weeknight, Terrence and Arns will take us through to 10 o'clock. tonight. Lots to talk about. Lots of going on in sports world. And it's been an interesting hour with young sir, Mr. Lyndon Meyer. Look, it's a pleasure. Again, I'll say thank you again because I should. Thank you. I think Husker fans now have another hero, somebody that they can ride with knowing you more. The more they know you, the more they're going to ride with you and for you. and that's why I think these shows are so important for you to come in and share yourself with this. We were talking about during a break that just from talking to you, I had the vibe that this can be and might be a player-led team.

Yeah. What does that mean? Who would the leaders be in your mind? There was a couple guys that kind of stood out during winter conditioning that we had a program come through, kind of program that, of military-based stuff and just teaching leadership. There was people that emerged as like good leaders that kind of built a group of. And those are the guys that have been kind of holding our standard

and letting everybody else know things and holding people accountable during our break off on May, our whole month off, just keeping people accountable, making sure that stayed in their playbook and kept working out so we could come back in June and not have to wait on anybody, which we did an amazing job on. It was the first time that, you know, people didn't really struggle that first week of June. And now it's just this whole

months on us before fall camp. So it's a great, a great opportunity for us to really establish the player-led team. How many days before camp? I'm trying not to think about it. Just take a day by day. Like I know the calendar is just like, oh, man. Because it actually, I would think that it becomes easier as it gets closer because then you see the light at the end of the tunnel. There is some payoff to the work you're putting in. Now you're working out for you and in your own space to prepare yourself for everything that comes. This coaching staff is a unique coaching staff. I'm going to ask you, when people ask me about Matt Rule, they said he seems like a cool guy.

Give me the elevated person. on Matt Rule as a coach. Well, it's actually funny because I've had people come up to me like, is Matt Rule really everything he seems to be? I was like, yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't really see him as like a, as the head coach of Nebraska as some people see. Like he's just Coach Rule.

Like I can come talk to him, joke with him, and talk about faith with him, just text and call him whenever I want to. and he's that coach that you can call him anytime. Yeah. Because that's not always the case for Power 4 coaches. Well, not anytime, but he lets us know what not to call him. He is a family guy and he's made it now. What does that mean to you?

Like coaches like everywhere probably preach like family, but he actually brings his family around. And then it actually feels like we're part of it. Like I'm friends with Bryant and son. say hi to vivian leona whenever they're there he brings his dogs there all the time we actually actually got to go to his house during a official visit when i was hosting a luke sorensen and a nice house head coach nice house head coach power four nice house so bravo coach rule uh being out there. Luke, thank you. I'm going to ask you to give a message to feed and give nourishment to

Husker fans with a message to close out this this hour. What would you say to them? I mean, just thank you for all the support. And you know, you're saying like how it could be a hero to some young Huskers. I just hope that through me, like I'm a light to like the real, the real hero in Jesus. And that's I think that's what's been the biggest difference on this team is God is working on this team. And it's been evident through our team prayers or our Bible studies. And, you know, I'm not, I'm not as excited about the wins this year. I'm excited about how God's going to use this team this year. That's, I'm getting chills right now thinking about, like, it's, it's incredible.

You have to put it in work. You cannot grow what you haven't planted. Plain the seeds. Amen. There it is. Luke, we will do this again, young man. Let's do it. It's been a pleasure. All right.

Don't go anywhere, everybody. Take your weeknight, Harrison Arons. Tristan Grum's is in the building. So we'll have a really good night here on the ticket. Don't go anywhere and love yourselves because we do.