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Episode Date: October 21, 2025

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Come. Welcome back. Mark from Cook. Is that deep here? Not Newt Rock me. Oh, man. You've been clear. When art imitates life,

when art imitates life, often art will get ahead of life, and it will show you things. There's a movie. There's a sports movie. And when people talk about great sports movies, one of the goats, One of the goats, and we don't talk about it enough, is North Dallas 40.

North Dallas 40. And if you are a football fan or a sports fan and you have not watched it, do yourself favor, put it on and put it in top of your list, things to watch. It's this and the program. Those, this is the program. Those are the two that allow you to peek behind the curtain more than anything else. Now, the story of North Dallas 40 is a professional. football team in the state of Texas, North Dallas, as a matter of fact, they wear blue and silver.

And Peter Jet tells some of the stories of the things that are going on behind the scenes in professional football, circa 60s, 70s, et cetera. And the conflict that happens between players and coaches, there's a natural conflict, the players and how they process and how they get through the coaches and what their expectations and demands are. And then as in every great sports movie, there is a boiling point. In this particular case, it is a game, it is a playoff game, and it comes to a critical moment. And the moment does not go their way. But what happens along the way is that the players realize that they fought for one another, they were connected to one another, they love it.

one another. And after the game, in consolation, they said to each other, brother, you, you balled out out there. Well done. And these are players that had not gotten along necessarily because linemen versus receivers. There's a conflict in a different style of play. But when a receiver gets credit from being a football player, right, for being physical and being tough and from alignment, right? Because, hey, Bob, the linemen set the tone. The linemen set the tone for your football team. on either side of the ball, those are the dudes. We know that.

We know that, but we forget that. So there's a scene towards the end of the movie where they have the discussion between. Bach, with all the bleeps and all the dump buttons at hand, please run the clerk. Hey, Elliot, you look really good out there now. I wish we could say the same thing for you, Joe, Bob. You should have studied weeks tendencies.

Oh, I bet, Covey. And you don't listen. We would have won if we studied those tendencies. Oh, shth. You never give us anything to bring in the game except your facts and tendencies. To you, it's just a business. But to us, it's still got to be a sport. You're supposed to be a professional.

You're going to make a... Oh, we'll work harder than anybody to win. But man, when we're dead tired in the fourth quarter, winning's got to mean more than just money. You're hired to do a job. Job! job! I don't want to do a job! I want no job. I want to play football, you I want some feeling.

I want some team spirit. This ain't no high school. You don't have to love each other to play. It's just what I mean. You b-h-or. Every time I call the game, you call the business. Every time I call a business, you call the game. You and B.A. And all the rest of you coaches are chicken-s. No feeling for the game at all, man.

You'll win, but it'll just be numbers on a scoreboard. Numbers, that's all you care about. Man, that's not enough for me. I don't have to listen to be free. Yes, too, too. You do. But when you call it a business, you call it a game. When we call it a game, you call it a business.

And it is the great apex for how college athletics and pro sports has to be dealt with now. The same can be said for high school sports, because we had that conversation, a couple of weeks ago with canceling games, et cetera. We had that conversation, that the convenience of being able to flip and swap and say, you know what, you're paid now or this is about money. No, in the end, it's a game being played where money is being made and whichever one you chooses the priority will rule it.

Nebraska football needs to be better at playing. Allow the business. to take care of itself by playing good football, by coaching good football. And we know, as a fan base, we know what good football looks like and where it starts. And if things aren't going well at the extremes, you go to the middle. If things aren't good at the line of scrimmage, it doesn't matter what happens beyond the line of scrimmage. if you don't get wins up front, up front, up front, the players in the backfield cannot have success.

And the way the coaches communicate that is to put the responsibility on the people who can change the culture, who can change the way we play, who can change all of it. And Bob, I'm going to yell it from the rooftop. It's not about Northwestern. This week is not about beat Northwestern. I'm going to correct myself and stop putting it's beat Northwestern Week.

It's do not beat Nebraska week. Nebraska has to take care of Nebraska. Nebraska has to, you have to be Nebraska proud. You have to be all the things you talk about. All the things are on the shirts. Nebraska Strong. Husker Power. Go big red.

It's not go little red. We don't yell that. We don't yell. Kind of go big red. Sort of go big red. No, it's full on, say it with you chess. That's how the, looking at the film, Bach, I've said this to you 100 times off air.

You know what makes this work, this radio station work? Bob. Bach makes it work. Foundationally, fundamentally, at the core, you set the tone. You set the tone. There are playmakers in the space. Cool.

But the playmaker can't do anything. Bach doesn't handle it. business. If Bach doesn't pay the bills, if Bach doesn't keep the boundaries, if Bach doesn't keep the standard, if he doesn't have the dump button, because he's the grand overseer to make sure no language gets out that shouldn't get

out. Bach needs to set the form, he needs to set the pace, he needs to set the energy, he sets the time. Bach will look and keep you on the clock. Hey man, got to get in, got to get out. The same applies for sports. And if you want to fix Nebraska, if you want to fix what happened Friday night,

now mind you, there are five and two. They're not horrible. They're not terrible. And there's nothing wrong that a win won't cure. And if you want to win, if you want success, focus, focus. You need to do less better. You need to do fewer things better than you had than you did Friday. Blocking, tackling, running the football. Control the middle of the field. Control the point of attack. Overload the point of attack, send extra bodies. When people ask for football, fullback football, what they're asking

is for a hammer behind the sledge. That's what they're asking for. That's an additional body at the point of attack. That's all fullback football is. It's one more body at the point of attack. It's one more bouncer at the door

to throw you at the club in case you get too close to the pretty girls. But that's, you know, I said, it's one thing to see one bouncer at the door. Most places will put two. You know why? Two's better than one at the door,

Bob. Point of entry. That's the point of attack. If you're going to attack a club, go through the front door. You know what? You know what the real, what the real badass clubs do?

Two at the door and one in front of the line. You don't see no little do's at the door. You see, you don't see no little dudes at the door. You see big mountainous dudes at the door, aggressive, mobile, agile, hostile, dudes at the door. Then the first dudes off the bus make a statement with Nucal luce, and that's your presence with authority.

Big 10 football, big dudes highlighting the big. It's not Little 10 football. It's not mobile 10 football. It's not passing 10 football. It's Big 10 football. If you don't honor that, if you can't win with that, if you don't focus on that, you don't prioritize that you need to win up front.

Before you do all the bells and whistles and all the confetti, before you make the birthday cake, Bach, and you deliver it, you got to put an entree on the table. We need some steak. Steak for the win, Bach. Beef. Beef. For the wind.

Don't come out with your face. Give me steak. Beef rib eye. That's what I need at the front of the state. This week is about big guy football. All of the prima donnas will get theirs because the big guys do the work. Focus, y'all. Focus.

We'll close out when come back.