Bussin' With The Boys - Travis Kelce Is OUT On Beer Olympics + Coach Matt Rhule’s Expectations For Nebraska

Episode Date: April 16, 2024

Recorded: April 4th 2024 | In this week’s episode we got Will and Delanie hitting the intro again. The guys hit on some of the events that happened over the weekend including the Masters, UFC 300 and Barstool Mini Golf. Following the intro, the boys are out in Nebraska where they were joined by head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Matt Rhule. Coach Rhule gets into how disappointing it was missing a bowl game after starting 5-3. He goes onto to talk about everything he learned in his first year at Nebraska, his thoughts on the NIL world and how Trev Alberts leaving affects him and the process in finding a new Athletic Director. At this point Rhule is just one of the boys. Keep your eye out for all of our other spring tour rolling out here within the next couple days/weeks. Enjoy fellas. 0:00 Intro 3:23 Will's Receding Hairline 5:26 Addressing The Comments 11:20 We Got Some Bad News 17:27 The Masters 24:34 UFC 300 31:37 Alabama Live Show  34:11 Barstool Mini Golf/Foreplay vs Bussin 46:49 Hair or Nails 51:57 Dad's Preaching Game 54:25 Shoutout Industrial Equipment 58:16 McGregor vs. Chandler Is Offical 1:00:40 Rhule preview 1:02:33 MATT RHULE INTERVIEW STARTS 1:02:46 If We Die, We Die 1:03:40 Practicing 24 hrs After Losing  1:05:57 Barely Missing A Bowl Game 1:07:15 5-7 But Still Top Recruiting Class? 1:08:34 First Year Lessons  1:13:30 Always Knew He Wanted To Be A Coach 1:14:29 Spring League? 1:16:56 Losing Your Right Hand Man 1:23:11 NIL Is Changing The Game 1:28:27 South Philly to Nebraska 1:32:19 Nebraska vs New York 1:34:37 Matt drills? 1:39:10 Heinrich’s Pet Peeve Of Coach Theme Song: Some Of Adams Blues by Quaker City Night Hawks SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Chevy: Head to https://chevy.com to check out all the Chevy truck grit, build your own Silverado and check out what current offers are out there during Chevy Truck Season. Twisted Tea: Grab a refreshing Twisted Tea today at https://TwistedTea.com/LOCATIONS DraftKings: New customers download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code BUS. That’s code BUS to get $200 in bonus bets when you bet just $5. Only on DraftKings. The Crown Is Yours. Gambling problem? Call one eight hundred gambler or in West Virginia, visit W W W dot one eight hundred gambler dot net. In New York, call eight seven seven eight HOPENY or text HOPENY (four six seven three six nine). In Connecticut, Help is available for problem gambling call eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven, or visit ccpg dot org. Please play responsibly. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (in Kansas). Twenty one plus age varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. Bonus bets expire one hundred sixty eight hours after issuance. See D K N G dot co slash b ball for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms, and responsible gaming resources. Gametime: Download the Gametime app or go to https://gametime.co, enter your email, and redeem code BUSSIN for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). Discover: Check out Discover.com/creditcard to learn more about the service you deserve. https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/brnd.html?cmpgnid=dp-dbr-inet-lcs-ps-AT-%25esid!&iq_id=dp-dbr-inet-lcs-ps-AT-%25esid True Classic: Upgrade your wardrobe and get up to 25% OFF @trueclassic at https://trueclassic.com/BUS ! #trueclassicpod Pure Michigan: Check out Sam’s Selects.For more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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because trust me we see all of your guys's comments thank you guys for throwing them in there again big hugs tiny kisses enjoy this episode with busting with the boys myself and delaney and coach matt rule we'll we're all good hey what oh got you yeah i forgot you our boy phil got us right on the audio everybody listening right now like it's been in the lab we had this cat He'll over to help with some audio. I don't know. Mitch, what did he help us do? He got this whole shit back here, got it going right.

And, like, I don't know. He did a whole bunch of stuff. He started a producer and it started producing. I don't know what he was doing back here. He was, like, changing some chords that Blasey had all set up. And he's going to make it sound good, I guess. All right, yeah. Where is this dude from?

He's got a sick accent too. He says gnarly and shit. Yeah. I thought he was from fucking best buy. Yeah, switched up a couple wires for us. So everybody firing off on Mitch in the comments. Let us know how the audio sounds. Yo, hey, I got a question for you guys.

Is my, uh, is my hairline falling back? I mean, who said that? I'm sitting here trying to have a good Monday. And I put out the video of promoting our, uh, spring tour that's out right now. And dude said, I love. you, man, but we got to have a chat about the hairline hitting you with a three-step drop out of nowhere. Yeah, I mean, it's...

I mean... I'm not going to lie. When I was looking at my hair this morning, I'm thinking, like, man, this neutrophol or neutral fall, I feel like it's starting to help. So I thought... At the top, you mean, like, at the top? Yeah, because usually I'm a little dustier in the corners.

Yeah, I've been keeping... It's usually, like, dustier in the corners. I feel like it's feeling a little bit more, but maybe I'm... I think that's what he's saying. Maybe I'm not reading the feel. feel correctly. JP, you had the mic. You feel like my airline's getting pushed back a little bit? No, I feel like it looks similar to when I first started, which is good three years holding strong.

And I even sent you a video of a mini golf clip. I was like, hey, the cut looks nice. Right. So I appreciate that, man. What's your dad hair line looking? Gone. It's going to happen then. Yeah, non-existent. It's going to happen. It's, uh, it skips generation, like balding and receding. It's usually like on your mom's side. Her dad is usually how you take after in your genetic. Gotcha.

I barely remember him. I'm not. Yeah, my dad's is gone like that 30 rack of bush light he had at the house over the weekend. Yeah, I can't really tell. I don't look at you like that, so I don't know if it's pushed back or not. I mean, you got the Ronald McDonald's, but other than that. In that bad comment in year one. Ronald McDonald's.

He said the Ronald McDonald's. The M. I know. But they look good on you. Look at my shit. This is the all. That hair line is good. Delaney got the X-axis.

My hair line is straight. Why? You got them grays coming in there. I'm grayed up. That's from stress, though. From what? Stress in daily life. Stress the fuck out around here, man.

Also in the comments, I was asking Delaney before he came on, but he wasn't familiar with the intro songs. No. He'll fire off about these intro songs. And, you know, you see comments now like, oh, they don't even talk about. They won't even address it. No. It's getting loud.

Yeah, people with the, majority wants the old intro, the old intro back. You're going to have to play it for me. I got to hear, I got to hear what's the best. We wasn't going to change it, but JP wanted to switch it up. Play both. No, play both, though. I want to hear both. I got to hear. Where's the, we can play them. They call it the Earntro. Yeah, the Earnsrow.

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Check out all the Chevy Truck Grit, build your own Silverado, and check out what current offers are out there during Chevy Truck season. Reduce yourself projects to off-road trips, off-road adventures, tailgates. Off-road trips. Whatever your thing is, it all starts with a Chevy truck. All right, yeah, so we had Ernest, he hit this little riff for us, just off the top. Freestyle it. Played it for us. Recorded it on a phone. Rocked it. It's a great song. Yeah. Here, put your, uh, put your headphones on so you can hear it. I don't think I can hear it. Me neither.

I don't think it's going to come through it. It's not going to come through our headphones. I hear something though. It's from my camera. Oh. You turn up? There we go. The NU is all the record in it. Let me hear the new one now. All right, now the new one. What's everybody laughing about? I see how all the UFC is today. If you were making out fighters, if you were in your prime again, who were the-

When did y'all switch it? Oh, like I'm up in a lot of time. You hear that under-time? Playing that head. What my opinion will be, the first one is more personal to me. I feel like it's like the boys. More authentic to them. More authentic.

Yeah, then the second one is like, we grown, we're doing tour. It's like, you know what I'm saying? We moving around. Like, it just feel more hyped up, like more lively, you know what I'm saying? I kind of, if you want to just add both of them, man, keep the original one in the front and then on y'all end out, play the new one. The thought process behind the newer one is you heard that undertone on the, like the beginning or clip.

Like, you talk about something that's, you know, he was talking about a bar fight or whatever biz being right there was talking about. you kind of have that undertone song, like an earned song, you can't find like an undertone that's kind of like, okay, it could either be serious, it could be emotional, it could be funny, whatever the case is. So the thought was to have the undertone song and then it rides into the canned intro where that song is playing.

And that band, Quaker City Nighthawk, shout out the boys, we used that one, some of Adams blues, right? And then we used their song Cold Blues. That was for the people who listened to the Delaney Walker very first ever episode. Those first songs, the intro song, was Cold Blues by Quaker City Nighthawks. Oh, okay. So when we, when we pulled this, some of Adams Blues, it was like pulling from Quaker Nighthawks, the band we used initially. Yeah. And we kind of switched it up because I was went like a cliffhanger clip at the beginning versus you just start off with the intro song.

Yeah. But everybody being so loud in the comments, you're kind of thinking you've got to bring back. You know, I'm hitting up earn on my, hey, we might need a clean version. Yeah. of this and then just drop it in. I mean, yeah, I think they may be right because I'm a power fan, right? And I watch a lot of power, and they changed the intro song, and people went ape shit,

and they changed it back to next week. Like, because it was like a big key factor. Like, the song was similar, but not similar, and people did not like it. So I can understand why people are throwing a fit on y'all changing the song. There'll be people coming in, be like, out signing in just for the old intro group,

for the old intro. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I would throw it back. Just have them do a cleaner version where you feel like that can play right out for everything or just use both. Shit, fuck it. Oh, hang on a second.

We got a... Ooh. Let's see if we can use this. Oh, it's just... Hey, more and more people. It's about to be Woolburts Taylor. More and more people dropping out. When is it?

June 24th or 25th? I think I'm going to be there. I got to... I know I'll report some time in July, so. It's going to be during the downtime. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I got to find a cat off the Las Vegas strip.

I'll do it. You know what I'm going to find the best chugger around. Come around this thing. Yeah. I'm gutted, bro. I'm gutted. Oh. That would have been, damn.

That hurt, though. You did. That hurt. Because we wanted to build. I know. We moved it actually up in the days. We met with Jason out in Vegas in the Sear Bowl to kind of like talk through, hey, how can we logistically pull this off?

Because we'd like to do it around the collab with you guys because they had like a beer or something. Yeah. You went out in Philly. And it would have been biblical. But we moved around. We, we were hitting them up. We hit them up a couple times last weekend.

We didn't hear nothing back. I was telling Taylor. I was like, man, I don't got a good feeling, bro. We didn't have a good feeling about it. I do appreciate him calling. Oh, yeah, that's real. Stead of sending a text. That's some real homie shit right there.

Oh, that sucks, though, bro. What about any, no hockey players? You can't get no hockey players. We get people, we just, we want it like. I know what you wanted. I know. Yeah, I know what you. You ain't even got to say it.

I don't know. Let's get back right. Yeah, yeah, man. Get it. We got a show, man. Get out your feeling, slap. Delaney's favorite character is Tarreek. No, fuck, no.

He is, he, I don't like Tyre. So you watch Power. I stopped watching after season three. Yeah, the new book of Tyreek and shit is trash, but. As I saw his characters start to get bigger, I'm like, man, what are we doing? I knew it. I'm like, he going to kill Ghosts. Because Ghosts and Tommy really my favorite characters, period.

I mean, Ghost's dead now and Tommy's still wilding like a month. of a crazy white boy. Yeah. He doesn't, because he doesn't want to, yeah, you don't want to. Basically,

here's what happened for everybody, everybody won't listen to. Because we got to cut the, the phone call. Travis Kelsey just called to let us know that he can't do beer Olympics.

That hurts. That hurts. Hey. But hey, onward and upward. Onward and upward. We lost a good soul. Yeah, two.

Two good soldiers. Two. It's not about what happens to you, Will. It's about how you respond. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a brutal phone call.

I bet he was sitting there kind of mulling up. He was like, ah, I'm going to do this. Maybe he had a text written up and I got a call. No, he probably is like sitting there like, damn, I got to call him. Because I'm sure they, I'm sure they came through and gave him a schedule. Like, this is the only time you can probably do this, do that. And he was like, fuck it. to go before training camp.

Yeah. You know? He's a busy cat. He's very busy. And with Dayton Taylor, like, I'm sure it's probably hard to align everything. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. Because I'm sure shit just pops up.

Yeah. And just, you know what I mean? You just know the feeling, like, it's the worst feeling knowing you're about to let the boys down. Yeah, man. Especially when you, you know, you had that calendar marked. Yeah, when you're like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that should be tough when you can't do.

It almost gives you that sick feeling in your stomach when you got to do to make those cards like, ah, I can't do it. I know, bro. He's like, whatever you need. I might have to call him like if it's like a game to get into the playoffs or the cheats and like, hey, I need you to blow it. No, we need some Taylor Swift tickets, man. Backstage. Taylor Swift tickets backstage. Introduces.

Taylor Swift on the butt. Yeah. Introduce it. Not even travel. Like, hey, I'll come on the bus. When I was going to throw that away. Yeah, we good. Yeah.

We just holler at her. Oh, fuck. That was a brutal phone call. What were we talking about before he called? The intro song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you're adding it. Yeah, yeah.

The comments, just another L. Everybody here, tuning in for the Coach Rule episode. That one will be, again. I shout them out each week. Mitch does a great job putting the chapters together. other than when he doesn't, you guys keep him in check. But if you're here for the Coach Rule episode, check out the chapters in YouTube, whether on YouTube, Rumble, wherever you're getting the pod.

Probably in the description or the bios, if you're on audio. Let's see where that one is. We obviously cut up, fuck around on the intro before we get to the interview. G, you was about to say something? Trave could get us a new intro song. He knows the number one pops. That's a good point is what you might as start. Just jotting down a list of how Travis could pay us.

But look, y'all fans do not listen to Taylor Swift. I'm sure of it. Yeah, but secretly. Yeah, Taylor Swift, New audience. You get Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey, and Jason Kelsey singing that thing. How you think that song going to go? How do you think the song going to go? Jason can sing a little bit.

How y'all think that song going to go? Taylor Swift's song. Yeah. Because you know we got bad blood. Yeah, there you go. I'm on the bus. I can see it now. We just laughed at the pain.

We just laughed at the pain together, boy. Shout out laughing to the pain. My shot, I know for your shot. Did you watch, are you a golf guy? You don't strike me a lot. I'm a golf guy. I watch a little bit of the Masters, though. Yeah, I'm sure I'm better than you, too.

I guarantee you. Bro, you cannot play golf. Look at you. I'm black. That's what he was about to say, guys. Look at me. Yeah. I am a fucking athlete.

You can't move. I just watch you, everybody saw the clip. Everybody saw the clip. All I'm saying is your hips are a little tight now. Yeah, you're right. I am tight, but the swing is not a full swing, and I still will out drive you.

Outplay you, outclub you, whatever you want, bro. We can go. This is like, I've been telling my man, let's go play golf. You can't swing an iron. Who can't? That's where I'm better at. My iron game is unstoppable. So you can't put.

Put game, great. You can't drive. Drive game is working on that. I'm working on that. You saw a video of Will Swing. Terrible. That was a big of you. And we knew my low back was hurt.

For sure. Oh, low back problems now. Tapes tape. Tapes tape. Tapes out there. It doesn't look good either. You and Taylor both. You saw one I just gashed the ground right from and the ball just falls back on the tee.

Nobody wants to play after you. You didn't rip up the whole the T-box. Come on, G. I fucked that up, but you think what are they divvits? You can fix them. Yeah, you can fix them. It's a divot. You can fix the divot, but we definitely need to get on the course.

Do you have a golfer that you root for in the Masters? Or you just casually watch. You're a casual watcher. You're just a casual, too. Like, oh, you just straight. You're a casual, aren't you? I'm a casual watcher. You know, it's slow.

Shout out, Scottie. Yeah, Scotty Sheffler. Scottie Shephler didn't go crazy. He won by four strokes. He won two out of the last three. He's quote afterwards. What was, uh, Jack, you can, you can throw that quote up there? Scotty, future father.

Future father. He'd been playing. He'd been playing well, though. He's been playing well, though. He's been playing well. He had six wins coming into the master. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He'd been playing well.

Great. Yeah, what he talks about is, he's a special, feeling to know that I'm secure forever and it doesn't matter if I win this tournament or lose this tournament. My identity is secure forever. He also said something along the lines of like an unfulfilling career. Was it unfulfilling? Was that the word he used? I think that golf is a very unfulfilling career. Like right now I'm sitting in front of you guys. Like I don't care about this green jacket. All I'm thinking about is getting home right now. Yeah, with the fams. Yeah. He's about to

have his first born. Yeah. Yeah. Prodical son. I feel like it plays into his mentality on the course. Like if you're not fully invested. Like thinking like I have to, you know, win the tournament or I have to make this putter. I have to make the shot. He kind of like, I don't know. He doesn't take it too serious. I think that's the best way to do it.

I kind of almost played a game. Like when I played it, I didn't take it too serious. That's why, like, after games, I never seemed like I was mad, upset. I didn't cry because it's been when you take it too serious, you try too hard. Sometimes when you try too hard,

that's when you make the mistake. I think he also knows that there's always going to be another round. Always. There's always another shot. Like we were talking earlier, he makes a bogey on a hole. He's the best at getting that stroke back.

Right. Immediately comes and gets it back. Right. I think that his mentality is like, like you're saying, my identity's secure. Like this doesn't make or break. I'm going to play again tomorrow.

Next turn. And he's 27. Having that wisdom young like that is crucial, bro. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, because he talked about Saturday night. he was sitting with all his friends that were there in Augusta with him. And he was telling them, like, man, like, I want to win so bad.

I'm like, I don't know if he said he was nervous, but he was, you know, he's a competitor. All he wants to do is win. And they remind him the same thing we're saying, like, hey, man, like, say worst case scenario, like you've already won. You're good. Like, the result does not define you at all. And it just shows the importance for like all athletes, the importance of your circle around you. You got guys saying that. you're going to be out there so much more loose.

Right. But it's true, he already won. He's in the Masters. Like, all his friend groups around him probably grew up playing golf with him, wanting to be on this stage, the biggest stage you can be in. And they mind, they're like, you won already, bro. Like, don't put too much pressure on it. You're here.

Yeah. And you will always come back here, like, because you've been here. So I understand that when you do have friends like that to make you kind of, settle down because you need that settle down sometimes. It's great to have because you know your friend group, they all want to be where you at. Right. You know, and they mind, you made it

to the ultimate point. What more can you do? You know what I mean? Take what you got. And it's like even you care so much and then say you do get it. Like, JP, you were talking about earlier. Like you just end up chasing the next thing. That doesn't mean like don't go after and win everything

and all that. But he was JP was referenced in Tom Brady. after his third Super Bowl. What would you say that Tom said? He said after he won that third Super Bowl, he kind of, like a few days later, he sat back and was like, is this really all there is to,

kind of like to my life? Like, because this is not fulfilling at all. Like that feeling's already gone. After winning it the first time, it was gone. Right. But it's like he wins the three and he's like, man, there has to be more to life than this. Right.

It's like you keep chasing, you'll never catch whatever it is that you're trying to chase. You win three and it's like, okay, all you now think about is how do you get the fourth one, where you're not even realizing how far you've come. It's kind of like, oh, it doesn't matter. What's your favorite ring, the next one? Yeah. I mean, Giselle was the next one. If we wanted to put it out, he said, damn, I've been winning Super Bowls.

What else can I get? Let me get the baddest chick in the world at that time. You know what I'm saying? Oh, fuck I'm mad at him. Oh, you got something, G? I was just going to say the boy Max. I know that's, yeah.

He had a good weekend. Just some tough battles. Like a lot of people were pulling from him. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's like the people's chant. Like, he's just most relatable. Because he is out there just kind of like cutting up. And, you know, him and his caddy will talk shit to each other.

He told us when he came on. But just he just seems like a real dude. But he had some good quotes too. Yeah, he had that banger quote going into that final round. He's like, yeah, what did he say? He's like, I just got to remind myself that I'm a dog and I'm ready for this moment. Before the final round, which was sick.

Yeah. What else was happening? Oh, USC 300. Do you happen to catch UFC 300? Bro. Justin Gaichie, Max Holloway, for the baddest motherfucker belt. Justin Gaichie was the title holder of the baddest motherfucker belt, B.MF belt.

and him and Max fucking throwing five rounds straight. Max is up five rounds and nothing. Like basically, Gachi needs, he needs a knockout just, like, to win the fight. He's got no shot unless he knocks him out.

Anyway, they're bad on you. You see my man, Gage, his nose is bleeding. He caught a heel at the very end of the first round, called a heel to the nose, was bleeding,

was kind of like gun shy a little bit. Max, they're going in, they're in the final round. And again, Max has secured the win. Yeah. Like a $300, $600,000, bonus, all this stuff.

Five to nothing. He's going to win unanimous. Five nothing on a round. They hit the, for the last 10 seconds. Max goes to the middle and points just at the ground and says, come on, come on. And they just start swinging. Watch this. I saw that.

He's like, get to the middle. Let's go. They just start hillbilly. They just start hillbilly. That's some raw, that's right. That's raw dog right there. Raw dog them. One second left, bro.

Got him. Hey, a buddy. A buddy should have never went to Because he had nothing to lose But he's thinking like maybe I catch him I know but oh buddy had nothing to lose He was already down in the cards He had nothing

He been No but he was up Oh he was up Oh I thought the other dude was up There was no reason for him to say Come to the middle, let's swing Yeah he he got He went in there and dogged him

He brought dogs That shit was crazy That's crazy Now I didn't get to catch all of that man I saw just the knockout you got to see Pereira's yeah yeah show him show him Pereira

who is the cat that he fought Pereira Jamal Hill Jamal Hill who was coming back from Achilles he was like the champ before he towards Achilles like the day before a fight or something like that so he's coming back into the ring and Pereira and him they're going toes and you got to see Pereira bro

the ref tries to step in because Hill like they did the meme on him yeah yeah that wasn't a black dude and what the African but Hill had kind of hit him I don't know if it was awkward but the ref was about to step in

and back him up and say hey you know that's a warning or whatever it is but as the rep was stepping in Pereira who's the one who got hit he told the rep he said no stay back let's get it drops the next punch dropped him you could probably go to JP's Twitter as well

you go to JP's Twitter one of his recent tweets he kind of posted it but it's badass bro I mean, it was a hell of a card. You got Aljo who's literally can have a title fight at any moment. Who's on the prelims? Who's not even on the main card? Crazy.

These two Chinese chicks, there's fucking swinging the whole time. I mean, shit. The women's belt. It was the three honey. Chandler, Chandler McGregor gets announced for 303. So McGregor and Chandler, Michael Chandler, now set for June 29th. Week A, that's the whole Beer Olympics week that we're setting up. in Vegas.

We'll be your Olympics and we stay and then hit the fight on Saturday. Yeah. Because that shit is going to be. Nuts. Insane. Watch this. Kick them in his. Nah, watch out.

He's like, nah, no, no, watch out. That was not. Bing, Bing. They ain't hit him with the meme. God. Oh, bro. Now you're going to disrespect him like that. I know.

This is what y'all brought me? Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know who he's going to fight. next maybe i think the people should start campaigning for john jones to come back down to 205 one more time he may do that he could do that or perera might go up perera is insane bro he beat izzie the first time at 185 now he's fighting at 205 this man weighed in at 205 and he weighed 237 right before the fight and Pereira yes how did he ever get down to 185 they man they got ways

O-ZMPIC. Yeah. I was just about to say that was Zemik, brad that stop you from eating. You got the, you got like, I mean,

there's peptides out there that can get in and out of your system within like eight hours. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, you can't use the Zimpics.

Is that cheating? I have no clue. I would assume. That's cheating. I would assume it. You think it's cheating? I don't know. It was late?

Yeah. You're injecting in your body, something that like suppresses like... He can, he can have diabetes. I mean, yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Look, did he put this in me? The MoZempic is legal. It's so new right now. I feel like, wasn't there a big article on it that like it's, there's stuff coming out that it's like bad for you. It is causing. It's like shutting down your kidneys.

All of that. Man, it's really bad for you. There's like some lawsuits. Yeah. People are getting sick. That's like the Hollywood drug. Yeah. Everyone is doing it.

Every actor. Yes. Everybody. And they lie. And then until people be like, expose them. It didn't say. I'm telling you, it's going to start getting put in soon because it's so new. And they think athletes won't take it because it does make you drop weight so fast.

I feel like it should make you weak. I would assume that it's on the USADA. Think? I mean, all the things that are on there, you're thinking, OZMPIC isn't on that banned substance list, especially in like the UFC where you've got to make weight. Maybe UFC, I just don't think that's a thing in the NFL. It's like, who want to take a drug and lose fucking weight? Right.

Like, what's that going to help you? You're not necessarily unless, like, you got something in your contract. Yeah, yeah. There you go. There you go. Like old pot roast. Yeah. No, he was funny.

When I told him now, I was like, paycheck different. He was like, what? I was like, no, I was telling me his story. I told the D. Lyman, like, hey, don't let T. Knight and Terence Knight and tell you get on you at all. about making your weight. This man would not step on the scale. At all.

Take his fines because he's like, oh, my budget's different now. Y'all are about to fine me. He said, I'm about to... He said, y'all want me to weigh in that? You got this good-ass food in the cafeteria? I was like, dude. You know what? In my head, that means that the pounds he was over,

that per pound that he would have to pay was more than the fine he just takes for not weighing in. Probably. You know what I mean? No, I mean, the fine way it was only was like a thing. it was like 500 a pound or something like that or a thousand a pound. It all depends who you were. Yeah, it depends on how you negotiate that up.

Yeah. All right, pivoting. Live show, Alabama, live show tickets. They are on sale right now. That live show is April 23rd in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, bus with the boys myself. Taylor will be there. Are you going to that one? I can go to that one.

Okay. I can go to that one. All the boys. Those tickets are on sale now. The link at Buston WTP. Follow us on social. We'll obviously post the link. Yeah.

Links in all of our bios. So check the bios. You're in Tuscalo or you're a couple hours out. Come join the boys April 23rd in Tuscaloosa. What's the place called? G, do you know? G spot. G spot.

All right. G spot. It's called the G spot. That's, I mean, if you go there, that's what you call it. But it's at Galettes. Oh. Okay. G spot.

Because as you guys are watching now, obviously we're released. in our Nebraska interviews at the moment. For the rest of the week, you'll get the Florida State interviews with Coach Norville, Braden Fiske, DJ, the quarterback. How you say his last name? Look, you don't even know. That's your boy, too.

Ouse. Ouse. And Patrick Payton, those interviews are dropping later this week. Next week will be Oregon. We're sitting down with a couple players from Oregon and the head coach Dan Lannning, and then the following week will be Alabama. So, you know, look.

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I'm probably the best. I'm just saying. They got a little indoor minigolf course out here and that. boy was balling. Now, the course, fairly simple. You saw everybody. They were very simple. At least minus 30 throughout the whole. Simple, bro. For all four rounds. But your boy won a pretty massive side bet. What round did you come in? Well, I mean, what place did you? I think I like tied for 12. Something low. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm not. I play with the boys. Like, I, you know, did I exceed your guys' expectations? I expected you to do right around what you did.

Okay. Y'all been to that new one? The year before in Air. Arizona, remember, I was like, terrible. Yeah. Like, what, plus 16? You had a lot going on. Plus eight. Yeah. You was trying to get a passport from the ambassador.

Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Trying to go to Mexico. And not to mention Dave talking to me like I'm a little kid, bro. That was- Come on, Willie. Yeah. Hey, don't talk during your swing.

Come on, Willie. You can do this. You can do this. You was that terrible? Bro, I was bad. I think I was like plus eight throughout that tournament. Like, I was like, I think last. And so knowing that I made the cut to go to the final two rounds was,

your boy was hype. But I had a sideback going on with the foreplay guys. There was a little dust up back in, what, August, something like that last year. We kind of went back and forth with Riggs, who's the head guy for the forplay pod, because of something that I think Frankie was talking about on a podcast. I think it was not the rundown, Barstow Radio. Yeah, Barstow Radio. Of the merch, right?

And I had one of my, you know, pantry talks. And so that was kind of, we were kind of arguing about, I mean, it was stupid. But for play promoing merge, them promoing our busing golf merge, there was like, there was a dust. They didn't like it. Yeah, there was a dust. And so playing with them, I go up. I was like, hey, boys, you know, I would hate for us to all go to the ground today and, you know, be disrespectful to the tournament. We kind of like chuckled about it.

I'll say, hey, I got a bet. if all three of you, because they're all golf guys, if all three of you beat me, I will monkey dance, I am at your mercy for any content you want to make. For me to promo your guys's golf merch, since that's what everything was over. I was like,

but if I beat any one of you three, then it's vice versa, it's flipped, I get to do the same with y'all. And they were, he was confident. I was kind of nervous how confident he was. I felt like it was Trent,

but I didn't know. And Riggs and Frankie crushed it. They were like in the top five. Like they were battling up. There was the final group. It was down to like the last two holes. Frankie and Riggs were in that group. And it was me and Trent in like the last place group into the like final round.

And I was up six strokes on Trent. And that's all who I had to beat. But I bogeed the very first hole. And they kind of, you know, I was legitimately nervous like in my head like, fuck, I can't lose this lead. I can't lose this lead. And sure enough, the first three holes I, bogey all three of them. He gets three strokes on me right out of the gate.

Damn. And I'm thinking, yeah, I'm in my fucking head right now. They're like, oh, they hear his footsteps. They hear his footsteps. And there's this dude wipes hole in the fourth hole. So where you hit it up. When you hit it up the ramp, it goes into this toilet. The dude wife's a dude wife. And then usually you get a hole in one. It'll like drop down and be right around the hole. But it's a par three so you can make up a couple strokes. He fucking hits it out of bounds, shits down his leg and four putts that hole. So he loses those three strokes

he got on me. He lost right there and that's kind of I was able to maintain that same lead throughout the rest of the time. How did he hit it out of bounds? When he went up the ramp, did it fly off? He tried to go to the ramp so you got to give it some juice and it went over.

And they went to the left of the ramp and then skipped up off something and went out of bounds. So then he had to drop. He hit it close to the hole, missed the hole. Then he had to hit an extra put. But fortunately, I maintain the lead.

But your boy Yeah, I was hanging on Because I was like, man, this would be huge You know, we gotta get this They didn't have a lot of clips of you shooting So I gotta watch the whole thing I only saw You gotta waste your time watching all this

That's your boy Put on for the squad I beat who I needed to beat You set up a match Set up a match with Garrett Because Riggs was sitting next to me And he was like Hey, hey, your boy Garrett

How is he at golf? I was like, he's pretty good at golf That's why I texted you What's your hand? He's like, what's his handicap? I was like, I don't fucking know I was like, well, let me text him, though, because Garrett had sent out a tweet for Play is doing this segment

to where they take people who are like haters who have been chirping Riggs forever, like on the internet, who are like- Yeah, golfers. Of them. And they try to pay for everything and fly them out or whatever. I want to put words. Like, they put them up in a five-star hotel, just start saying, first-class black car service. Yeah, maybe. But they take care of them coming out to play one-on-one against Riggs, like it's Riggs versus a hater. Yeah.

And he says it's actually way harder than they thought it'd be because guys are like back out last minute or like say their hater. You know, then they don't want to show face. But they had a really good one to where it ended up being a big benefit. And, you know, then obviously they make amends. And the cat's like, all right, yeah, you're not that bad. And it was a good golf match. But anyway, Garrett comments to him and says, hey, I'm a low-key hater and writes

a tweet to Riggs. The Riggs sees it. And he's sitting next to me in the gambling cave. And he's like, hey, your boy, Garrett, what's he like? Like, he's good at golf. The cat that I was telling you when we were doing our thing back and forth, I was like, listen, I can't play you in golf and settle it, like, on the golf course, but one of our producers could.

Definitely could. I was like, this is the cat I was talking about. And he's like, all right, let's set that up. So I think it's right now it's tentatively in early September when they're out here for the Barstool Invitational. Classic. Yeah, the classic. We're going to get Garrett, Garrett versus Riggs. How many holes?

What is it, 18? It'll be 18. 18. Because Gary, your handicaps like, what, five, six? Yeah. Because Riggs was like, oh, that's perfect. I'm around the exact same. No, he's not.

You know what things, though? I watched the one with the haters when it came out, and the guy's whole... The hater was up on him, he said. He said he was... The hater won. Did he? Yeah. The whole, like, thing is people just shit on Riggs.

Like, he's not wrong. People shit on him. I don't consume their content. enough, but the merch thing was enough for me to be like, I'll play you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so... Like, it's not enough to where you're in the comments, like everybody else. I think I've commented, like, three times. Yeah. Yeah. But this guy that they have an episode out with has commented like 80 times, like, DM'd him a ton. And so, Briggs is like, all right, like, let's just do this. But the guy ended up beating Riggs and they're both like, I mean, I can imagine nerves are flying. I was nervous when we, when I hit at the spitting, chickles. But, I mean, yeah, it's, it's got to be tough to get shit on and then have to try and back it up and then it not go your way. Yeah. He said the cat was pretty good. And it ended up being like a kind of an emotional deal at the end.

Yeah. The guy was, like, there was like a benefit from like something cool. So I think Riggs like originally was like, all right, yeah, I'll do this one because the guy was like, uh, winter to donates a thousand dollars to a charity of choice. Right. And then the guy ended up having his own charity because they had lost their, child. And so it like went to something that they were doing for that. And it kind of caught Riggs off guard and at the end. And so yeah, they're closing it out. The guys like, I'm going to donate this. Regardless, like, thanks for doing this because I know people will see this. And so there was a good like benefit from it. My benefit? I mean, I don't really have one, but it'll be a good. It'll be a nice little, nice little grudge match. Sometimes I just feel like with, with podcasts,

even though they say they haters, they really not haters. They like fans. You know what I'm saying? But that segment is like a hater segment. So from that, when they announced it, he's like, it's hard to filter out who's actually a hater because when they announce it, people are just now hating just to hate because they want to hit a golf trip. Yeah, of course.

They're a massive brand. There you go. And he's like, so we got to like, it's like, you find people who you might have and then you got to like go back in time and see if they've been an actual hateer. Yeah. You got to be like on some back in the day, like, man, if I see you, I'm going to kill you. It's on sight.

Now, you got to say, you got it. You got to be straight hating. Like, yeah, get this. He's going to be good. That's why my original thing was over the merch thing. Right. And so that's where the whole thing.

It'll be perfect. It'll be perfect. We had a good time. That was a good time hanging. Where are they going to play at? I don't know. I think the classic is here and it's a hermitage. Oh, Hermitage.

Yeah. I was out with the... This is our home chorus. You talk, right? Well, see, Garrett's got to show up, man. Like you said, we can't let him get in his head. We need one good hole to where we can all talk shit forward, Garrett. And then it's like, oh, he's stealing it now.

Is, like, having both squads all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, chirping each other, you're having fun. That will be fun. Yeah. We can do something like on every hole, too. The one that they did with this guy, like, it did get kind of tense because it's just the two of them and, like, the camera guys. So there's not like, he doesn't, like, have these boys talking. Yeah.

So that, I feel like it'd be a good time. both nights we had a little, little cocktail crew. It was myself, Ryan Whitney, Francis, and Frankie. And dude, hearing some of Frankie's old stories, like being in the trenches because he was like Dave's first guy, getting paid like 40, 45 grand when it first started. And he was like, you know, hey, Frankie,

we're outside the pizza spot, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And hearing some of those old school stories from Frankie, just how everything came to be was insane. Because he's like a fiery dude. Very passionate. And like when he makes a shot, he just has like fucking, he just loses it. Yeah. He goes like all out.

Loves it. And, but listen to his stories, man. He's like, you know, Dave, like, he's like, I would be just be sitting on my computer if Dave didn't feel like I was working. But hey, what are you looking at? Turn your computer around and show me. And he's like, yo, you're just like on edge. Yeah.

He shouted out, Nate. He, like, bought him a sub before he went up for his interview because he was wearing like a nice fit to go up. But then he caught wind that he was chirping everybody that was dressed nice. So he felt dumb going. up there, like, look, having a giddy up on. And they was like, hey, so what's your pitch going to be? And he kind of said something. He's like, no, Dave doesn't give a fuck about any of that stuff. He's like, you need to have X, Y, and Z. And he said it, like, helped him be in an interview.

And then how Dave found Austin, Austin was kind of like through Frankie because Austin, he would send, he would send the pizza videos because he knew that was Dave's baby. And he would send, he would, like, outsource him to Austin to work for free, basically. And like, hey, if you do this right, I can get you. I can get you in. Yeah. That way when Frankie. left to go do for PlayPod and make other content, do things that he thought he could bring more value to. He's like, he just had this plug and play guy with Austin. Because he's like, well, can he do, he can't edit my pizza videos. He's like, oh, he's been doing it for X amount of months. And so I like got him in, filtered him in. That's how Austin got linked up and got

the gig with Dave. Because Dave, that's like a 24-7. You're like all in around Dave. I'm sure. It was sick hearing some of those old stories. Shout out the crew, man. I think, what is it? He named our group chat. Shout out Witt for whooping everyone's ass. Witt, bro. It was like he's going through the final round. It's like,

yeah, sweet put, Witt, like you're fucking beating everybody by 10 strokes. Dude, Witt is so funny to be, he's so fun to be around. He's got this, that northern accent.

Yeah. Kind of always sees everything. Like, talk speaks from like the negative light of it. And he's just, his mannerisms are so funny. But let's do our, let's hit our,

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Keep it twisted with the boys. Grab a refreshing twisted tea today. Mitch. Let's hear the Twisted question. Ooh. This twisted question comes from the same guys last week. It's on the same picture. Would you rather have every hair on your body plucked off one by one

or have all of your toenails ripped off? That's a lot of hair that you got to plug off. Pitching it. We're answering how we want to be tortured. Yeah. This dude is, what do you do for a letter? He needs to be a writer for the saw movies. Yeah, like, what do you do for a little?

I don't, I don't know. I, probably hair. Hair plucked off. But then again, the nails go fast. Yeah, but that shit. He's deep. Every hair. I know that'll take forever.

Like, that's what. Everybody, every hair on your body. Butthole. Oh. We're getting ripped off from the sack, bro. I mean, that's the easy one. I mean, I don't feel like that's going to hurt much. So I'm going to do the hair.

I think I'm going to nails. Hair. I think you just got to get him. I just don't feel like he could be. It probably will come right out. I'm dead serious. It didn't even feel it. You see what I'm saying?

Hey, the couple came out. Like, I don't even have no pubic hair. How'd that feel? I didn't feel it. My shit is, like, falling out but growing at the same time. You feel me? Where else can I pull one from you? Go for the leg, bro.

Huh? Feel it. That ain't shit. And you pluck that bitch out. I'd rather do the hair. All right, maybe it's hair. We've got a lot of hair. Yeah.

more pulling like a bitch I don't feel that you feel that see and you can't just do one at a time hey let me get one of your eyebrows hell no just one no no no

you're gonna make me look like I put a fucking line in my shit oh boy you only got with three hairs you know you're not gonna be able to get one you're not gonna be able to get one you go yake and it's gonna take no you're gonna take three

go for it man I felt that I felt like that Tom Lib would hurt a little bit. I still going to take that one. That pain is quick. No, I, no, I know that you don't hurt. He said it's toenails. Give me some pliers.

No. Yeah, I'm going to say toenails. Tonellows. I'm going to do hair. That pain ain't, it's quick. It's like somebody pinch you. It's going to be quick. Think about your toenails when they, oh, I can just imagine all the nerves.

I have my toenails stepped on and. Yeah, she was like, painful. You couldn't even touch it. Like, put your shoe on. I can, your sock may get stuck to the meat. You got, oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah, okay. What's y'all doing?

I'm doing hair. Yeah, I'm probably hair. If there's like a repercussion thing Like you have it's like weight Totally doesn't take like eight months to grow back Yeah But also hair You're gonna be fully bald everywhere

For like at least three or four months Yeah True You're looking like Josh Dobbs I know I think that look is kind of clean though Yeah, I probably do hair Shit would hurt though

Yeah That top lip is Right in his crevices though Yeah felt that. Hair for sure for me. Yeah, easy. They do my band-scaper for me.

Yeah. It's all good. One last thing I got to worry about. Like, come on, man. I feel like you want your hair to be as long as possible. On that part, yes. Everywhere. Yes.

Yes. Because the shorter, oh, they're going to have to get in. Yeah, they're going to be yanking your skin out. Microcuts and shit. It's good positivity. You got any, you got, you got any dad tips right now, man? I have one. Go ahead.

So we celebrate her. Yeah. So, we. Birthday, hey? Yeah, Rue had her second birthday. It was like, it was April 3rd. But anyway, we had our families in town. The reason didn't get the families together, we had a little pizza party.

But dad tip, my dad tip would be to have, Have, because they're not going to remember their second. No, at all. Have those birthday parties at spots you enjoy eating at. So Dicey's Pizza, no free shots of Dicies. Love their pizza. Nice little outdoor environment so the kids can run around and play and all that stuff. But my dad tip would be to build the birthday party around a place you like to go.

It's funny you say that is a great tip because my daughter birthday, her eight-year-old, eight-year-old, eight-year birthday. we went to actually a place that made like a brewery, but it was like an outdoor area for kids too, though. So like all the adults, because if you... Quick 30, quick 30. No, like I'm saying, if you want to have... 80-year-old birthday party at a brewery. But it was split.

It was like a kid's thing and a brewer, so all the parents will come. That's how you get the parents to come to bring all the kids. So we had more kids than we thought we would have because the parents wanted to come because it was like, oh, we get to drink cider and watch our kids have fun in this area that's secure. It was gated off. It had a back area, but it was they sold cider.

And I'm like, oh, this was a great idea because all the kids came. My daughter had the best birthday she ever had because everyone brought their kids because if the parents... The parents wanted to go. The parents want to go. If the parents don't want to go, your party going to be light. But if the parents do want to go, you're going to have a packed party.

And so I'll take that, like what you said. Yeah, I take that. Yeah, no, that seems to play with the kids like flights of juice, different juices. That would be hype. You don't talk about them breweries or you get like a flight. No, no, you're right. Yeah, they think they drink. Yeah, yeah, they want some.

You're right, you're right. No, they kind of did something like that, too. Yeah. They kind of did something. I wasn't in control of that situation. but what a shout-out-on-no-free shout-out you boys got shout-outs it's going to be my my shout-out no free shout-out is going to be my dad tip no i'm not going to let that slide i'm not going to let that slide at all oh i know you have one you guys speak up i got one uh i got a shot-out no free shout-out

and i know y'all gonna be like this boy on heavy equipment right now but a skid-steer bruh I got a 299D skids there. And I'm going to be honest with you. Your boy is country as hell all of a sudden. I'm out here. I'm making trails. I just made a shooting range with this thing. I mean, I am clearing land, bro.

Never thought something. I'll be doing something like that, especially me being black from the hood. And now I live in the country. From California. From California, the concrete jungle. You feel me? We don't have grass.

Siria turns you out. Yeah, I'll say that. Tennessee more like, Tennessee more like turn me out. So no, shout out, no free shout out. 299B skis there from Caterpillar, baby. Holla at your boy. We love a piece of equipment.

I'll love another one. Give me a shout out. That'll be our boy mom hats. Our boy mom hats drop. Ooh, just drop. They're dropping. When do they drop officially? Wednesday.

So if you're listening right now, these boy mom hats drop tomorrow. I think this is awesome. Yeah, I'm going to get me one. They know. For the boys podcast, all the boys out there, I'm sure you have a stud mother that's been behind the scenes for your entire life. Yep. Get them, hook them up with one of those for Mother's Day.

Or if your wife, you guys are expecting a boy, what a great gift to get your wife. If you have a son, I know people are like, oh, when her dad boy stuff dropping, look, we're not trying to cuck the son of a boy dad-dad tells out there. But we got some boy mom hats that are dropping that, I think it's going to be, those are going to be sick. And number one, Bar still doubts that those push you a lot because we can only do two colors. So once we prove this model, I think there's only going to be like 100, 150 in stock. So once we move those, then we'll get more colorways. Right now we got the natural look. I pulled around a couple of the ladies in my life.

They said natural and they said navy. So we got natural color and we got navy coming out first. So once we sell those out, I'm sure we can do more stuff. It up. A sick. A sick Mother's Day gift. A gift for a boy and mom out there. We got them in natural, natural and navy.

Yeah, I'll be getting minds on Wednesday, mate. Do you want to put that on? I don't want to mess up my hair right now. I got to go through it. It ain't moving, but it will flatten that shit there. You look funny and a little, does, like, flimsy dad hat. Who, me? Yeah.

I know. They don't fit me really well. I need like a straight band, like hard brim, snapback. Them flimsy ones. My head is just. Yeah, you're way too. Yeah. You're like a muscle head. Sure. I mean, he is. Are you not? No. Wide face. That's a football stack. That's just for playing football.

That's for playing football. If I didn't play football, I'll probably be skinny for sure. You're not skinny now. What do you mean? You don't play? I've been playing All this time my body is It's like Taylor Yeah I don't Yeah Taylor only Zempics for sure

And if I took that I'll be skinny as hell Nah I'll just mess with you Taylor For real But for real All right let's get into the We'll get into the Coach Rule episode Hang on

I think it would be wrong of us Not to shout out A big fight that's happened in June 29 Oh fuck yeah yeah yeah yeah UFC, yeah. We had our UFC 300 talk. Another big thing that happened is in the presser afterwards, Dana announcing June 29th, it is official.

Connor McGregor versus Michael Chandler. The boy, it's time to burn the fucking boats, dude. We're finally getting that fight. Mike's finally getting that fight. We will hopefully all be there. That shit is going to be electric. Yes. And if you're looking for tickets for it,

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Last minute tickets, lowest prices. guaranteed. But definitely shout out the boy Michael Chandler landing this UFC 303. I know he's been waiting a minute. It's been kind of getting worked on behind the scenes. So he hasn't been able to talk about it a whole lot. And then it's like getting fleshed out to where it's like, is this fight even going to happen? You see Connor out there pushing Roadhouse. You're not looking a little banged up on some of these interviews. Have you been seeing it? I mean, yeah, he just, you know, it looks like he fucked up. Yeah, like on something.

Yeah. But I can't wait for the buildup. See them going back and forth, see kind of McGregor kind of get, you know, start talking some shit. I mean, that's around the corner. Is he going to be, like, ready for that? Hopefully not. He might end this one the first round. Because he's been doing this movie thing, you know what I mean?

But we'll get into the coach rule episode, the coach rule episode. We sit down with Coach Rune. We talked to him about, you know, not making a bowl game, getting so close. starting off the season where we're five and three, and then we just drop the next four to not make a bowl game, which is unfortunate. The origin story of if we die, we die. We sat with a couple of players.

We sat with Coach Rule. There's some rumors going around, whether it was before the Michigan game, whether it's before the Northern Illinois game. We talked to him about the if we die, we die speech landing at top recruiting class and being aligned with the new AD. Obviously, when Coach Rule got brought on, the president, President Carter,

You had the athletic director, Trev Alberts, who were pivotal in getting Coach Rule to Lincoln. And as everybody knows with like the way that world works, if an AD moves on, gets fired, whatever the case is, they're usually the next guy that comes in wants to bring in their own guys. So how implemental Coach Rule was in this process with hiring the new AD, we talked to him about that. But it's an awesome episode. We had an incredible time out in Lincoln, Nebraska. The hospitality is out there is insane. They treat us very well.

you're going to listen to the Coach Rule episode, and then the Dillon Railo episode will be dropping later this morning if you're consuming this early right out of bed. I think this is dropping like 6 a.m. where L.O. 1 will be around lunchtime at some point. But again, awesome interviews, awesome sit down with Coach Rule. He's one of the best. He has, I didn't know if he had pink eye, so I didn't really allude to it.

Then he hit me at the live show. He's like, hey, I saw you staring at my eye. And I was like, I didn't know if I wanted to hit you with the joke. Did your wife bought her on your pillow? I didn't know where I could go with that. He said that while she was there. Yeah. But Don, you know, if you're in the comments, try not to say this coach rule.

Ask if Coach Ruhl has been kind of the comments. You're going to love this episode. Again, thank you guys for listening. Make sure you're subscribed on audio, all video platforms, big hugs, tiny kisses. Shout out of you guys for the support. Enjoy this episode with Coach Rool. You know what? Game on.

I mean, I don't have to lose. With that, welcome to another episode of Bustin with the boys. First question, coach. What game was there if we die, we die speech? That was, uh, that was Illinois, I believe. Yeah, that was Illinois. Waiting to ask you that. No, no, it wasn't Michigan.

That was Michigan. No. Does your players seem to think it was Michigan? You have to show it to me. What, what's y'all saying? What's y'all saying that there? The die, the die. If they die.

It was that not you. No, it was NU. Yeah. Oh, it was in Illinois? Yeah. Oh,

we're bringing the banger. If we die, we die. There we go. If we would have lost the game, I would have died. No, yeah.

Strategic, strategic. Yeah, Michigan, Michigan probably was more like the half-time speech and then the next day. The next day we went out. The next day we went out and said,

all right, y'all don't want to play on Saturdays. We're going to play on Sundays. Now, this was before we knew they had our signal. know, unless I said that's why we lost, but like before we knew all the kind of controversy around the games. Man, we went out there Sunday night.

We had a Friday game. Sunday night. There, my boy Jaylett over there. He's got, he's got like canned footage of like, I mean, it was, I'm talking about, how long, how long we go for an hour and a half? Like, full play. Like, guys out there, defense talking trash of the offense. Like, like literally 24 hours after we just played Michigan.

And, and I said, right, if you don't play on Saturdays, if we get down, we're going to just kind of roll over. then we'll play on Sundays. We played. And then we went Friday night to Illinois. We beat Illinois. So did the players know that they were going to practice on a Sunday? No, the coaches didn't know.

No one knew. No, I literally spent the whole day kind of going back. Because, you know, you don't want to overreact, right? But we had had the Colorado game. The Colorado game was our second game of the year. Tough loss first game against Minnesota. Second game of the year, 13-7 with like seven minutes left and we lose 36-13. Kind of got away from us.

And I'm like, all right, I'm trying to teach them. Come back. We beat Northern Illinois, beat Lotech, playing Michigan. Get down 28-0-0, and it's like, ah, darn it. And just, I'm not here to have guys. I love these guys too much to let them say, oh, darn it. So I went back and forth all day. And then finally I was like, what would you have done back at Temple?

Before all the stuff, right? Before, you know, everyone's watching what you're doing. Back at Temple, we had the Hassan Reddicks and the Dion Dawkins and all those, like, real dudes. I was like, what were we done back then? We'd have gone out and practiced. And so we went out there, and what I saw was these guys come to life. And that's why, you know, we went out. We beat Illinois.

We beat Northwestern. We beat Purdue. We won't three game, three or four game, one streak. Three game, one streak. So we got some winners here. But literally, it was just like me and my heart back and forth. What should I do? Because as a coach, you have to get up there and present.

Like, you know what you're doing. But sometimes you're like, man, I don't know what to do right now. Because you don't want someone to get hurt. You don't want to do the wrong thing. But you also want. them to know that you expect more from them other than just if we're going to lose we're going to lose but we're not going to lay down

yeah how was that throughout the year obviously you're not feeling the expectation of Nebraska and the fan base and everything else and falling short of like being bowl eligible especially when you had a couple games there at the end to to do just that

yeah we were five and three you know it's five and three to finish five and seven and it's like anything else man it's a double-edged sword right um my heart really hurt for the older guys, right? Like they had been through so much, and some of them came back just to help us get to to be bowl eligible, to be the team that brought us back. I'm out, I'd walk downtown and students would say, coach, I came back for another year

because I want to go to a bowl game. So I felt that not for me, not expectation, even just how much the players have put into it, and to lose 20 to 17, and then to lose 1310, and then to lose 1310 on the last play two walk off field goals my heart hurt for those guys because I really really really appreciated those guys with that being said sometimes you can go six and six

you can go to a bowl game and go play in a nice bowl game be the team you should beat finish seven and six everybody's walk around smiling like we have like an intensity about us we have an urgency about us that we might not have had have we gone and gotten a little the PlayStation from the bowl game

and nice little jogging suit so I think I think there's some positives, but we didn't get it done. That shows, though, you can tell because y'all going five and seven and still being one of the top recaving one of the top recruiting classes, talk a little bit about that. Yeah, I mean, I think as you see this place, like, you know, and again, facilities don't, what do facilities do? They tell you that football is important here. Our fan base tells people that football is important here.

And so we work our tails off. We work hard in recruiting. And just to get people here. Because I think once you get here, like you walk around Lincoln, you go downtown, you see the campus, you're like, oh, snap. Like, this is a really, really cool place. And so, you know, the highlights came on. They just turned on the highlights. That's how we kind of got some of right.

You see me, right? You see me covering. But you know what? But honestly, like, I think the big thing is all along players could see like, hey, my history at Temple, you know, being two and ten, then being six and six and then back to back, you know, top 25 teams, you know, back to back. conference champions, you know, top 25 at different times of the year, going to Baylor, being 1 and 11, then being 7 and 6, then playing in the Sugar Bowl. I think people realize, hey, this is like a coach will try to build it the right way. So to be 5 and 7, maybe outperform.

So I think a lot of the young players are like, all right, I see it, I see what they're trying to do, I see how they're doing it. And I think we're going to just going to continue, we're going to continue to accrue well. What do you feel like you've learned the first year coaching, being the head coach at the University of Nebraska? that, you know, when I took this job, I was very uncertain. You know, I was very like, nah, you just get fired. You're a little scarred, you know, and I don't really know. I'm a, I'm a northeast guy.

I was very uncertain, like, you know, I'm not in a bad way, just like in a, and my wife was like, that's the job. That's the job. Go to Nebraska. That's the job. Go to Nebraska. So, like, two weeks in, you know, because I was living downtown, my family, my kids were finishing school.

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Even the guys who aren't going to play, they want to watch them warm up. This is a place that, like, after the game, win or lose is going to stand up and cheer for you and probably cheer for the opponent. So it's football done right. And, you know, I love the game of football. And this is a place that loves football. So it's like the perfect match for me, perfect match for my family. and I think that we can be what we're expecting to be. Gentlemen, I interrupt this episode to bring you a brand near and dear to my heart,

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No, but in all seriousness, you know, I had a, I had a chance to go be an assistant coach in the NFL, the New York Giants and had an amazing experience. You know, working with the O line, the guys like, you know, Chris Sneed, Dave Deal, David Boss, like all these great dudes. And I was a young assistant coach. Being a head coach in the NFL probably wasn't really for me. Like, I love players. And you're caught there sometimes in like, you're the guy, cutting guys. You're the guy. And some guys probably can do it way better than me.

Some guys, you know, maybe like a Vrabler or someone who's played, I struggled with coaching you, coaching you and then cutting you. I struggled with my family not being a part of it. Like last night, if you'd have been here, the whole team, we have dinner in the Hawksendor players are telling them invite their families, invite their girlfriends, coaches invite everybody. You know, my daughters are walking around. My wife knows not just our players, their girlfriends, their families.

Like, it's college and it's just a little bit more how I'm wired. It's a little bit more relationship built. So, you know, when Carolina didn't work out, it was like, you know what? Hey, I took a shot at this. It was a great experience, but I really love college football. And this is a place that I believe does college football right. You know, we're not using players. We're not bringing them in if they're not good enough throwing them out.

You know, this is a place that really wants to develop guys. And so that kind of matches who I am. So did you always feel like you was going to be a coach? I know playing linebacker at Penn State and then being a GA at Penn State. and then being a GA at Penn State right after. Did you feel like this was your calling to be a coach, being around young man, developing them, and giving them the opportunity to be players in the NFL?

Yeah, yeah. From the time I was like, I don't know, five, six, seven, eight years old, I want to be a college football coach. My wife sometimes, she'll say to me like, man, you're so lucky, like you know what you want to do your whole life. You know, my dad's a minister, and he's also, but he's also a high school teacher and coach.

My uncle's in the Pennsylvania high school coach is All of Fame. Like my whole life, I always wanted to coach and coach college football. You know, I never wanted to coach high school. Never really wanted to coach the pros. I wanted to be a college football coach. And, you know, being at Penn State, being around Joe Paternal, I wanted to do that. And so being here now, you know, through the journey of Temple to Baylor, to Carolina here, you know, being at a place that when I walk in every day, I walk by five national championship trophies, that's something when I was eight years old. I couldn't have even comprehended.

Talk about the Spring League that you've introduced this year. It's been a talk of a couple of my group chats Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Positive, negative? Positive. A couple like, oh, this is interesting. But dudes talking like, you know, it's something that changes it up during the springtime.

Yeah, you know how spring can be. Yeah. You know, I tell you what it is. You know, I just, I was sitting there one day and I kept thinking about, you know, the history of Nebraska, Tom Milesbourne, you know, multiple drills going on, multiple fields going on.

So we've always tried to do that, you know, in basketball, like, you know, you can go play summer league, right? You can go play AAU when you're not in, season. Baseball, you can go play wooden bat league. And football, you basically just lift. You know, so how do you get better at football than playing football? So, you know, we have three quarterbacks.

We have Heinrich who won the starting job halfway through the year. Unbelievable young man going to get better and better and better. We have Danny Kaelin, lead 11 quarterback for 45 minutes down the road. Dylan Raola, just, you know, one of the top recruits in the country. So we have three guys that want to be the quarterback. And I started thinking about like reps and was like, man, we have enough alignment. we have enough of this, we have enough of that. What if we just divided the team up into thirds?

And we just played football. Because, you know, when I was growing up, when you guys were growing up, like, yeah, we had video games, you know, but like you guys probably had phones. I didn't. But, like, we still went out and played a lot. A lot of my guys, like, they don't, they didn't really grow up playing. They don't, they might have played a little basketball. They played a lot of football.

And so let's play. Let's put the ball down. Let's, let's have officials. Let's, let's just play the game and not just do drills. And so that, when the creative staff turned into the bug eaters, Turn into the rattlesnake boys, turning the old gold knights, taking the old team names. And, like, it's crazy.

Like, you're trying to tell your guys to be leaders and guys are like, nah, I try to keep to myself. And then all of a sudden I named someone a GM. Hey, you're the GM of this team. And that team doesn't perform. He's like, hey, you're getting cut tomorrow, bro. Like, if you don't know your stuff, like all of a sudden, you see that this level of competitiveness come out in our guys.

So it's been unbelievably fun. And we heard, like, you involved, the injured guys as being the GMs to keep everybody interacted with the team. And I think that's great, like to do something like that. Because let alone sometimes when you injured, it almost feel like the coaches never talk to you. You're not involved. So I think that goes a long way, too.

So I was watching a couple of my highlights back there. I saw you. Daydream, man. Come on, make that tackle. I, okay, I don't want to jump around asking you about this. But a big reason of why you came here was Treve Alberts. What was it like the day you got the phone call that he was going to be moving on to A&M?

Yeah, you know, Treve had been really cool with me and kind of talking to me about it beforehand. Like, hey, this is out there. This could happen. You know, for me, for me, so what it was, I was in Scotland. I was playing. I was playing. I took my son on like a little golf trip. My son's a golfer and, you know, he was graduating high school.

He stayed behind in Charlotte so that I could take this job. He was like, hey, so I took me and him father's son trip. And I was coming down 13. And my phone rang and it was Trev. And I picked it up. And I was like, oh, I. Dang, all right. Well, hey, I'll call you later.

I appreciate it. Then I went on ahead, go ahead and knock that little par in. A little something. A little something. But in my world, you know, of coaching, like, people come and go, right? Like, people move on. We love them. Like, I've had different coordinators.

I've had different coaches. Players come. They graduate. Players come. They're free agents. They move on. And I think the biggest thing is always just to make the most of your time when you're with somebody.

So, you know, when I got hired, there was a president. and there was an ID that hired me that are both gone. But since I've been here, like this is home. Like I love it here. Like my wife opened up a business down in Lincoln. My kids are in school. They're doing well. My son's coming to be a freshman here.

Like this is where we want to live. So, you know, thankfully we hired Troy Dannon, who I've known since way back at Temple. I mean, he's a rock star. But yeah, it was kind of a little bit of a shock, to be honest with you. How do decisions like that, like, affect you? you. Well, I think the biggest thing is like, you know, you want to have an AD two things. You want have an AD who wants you to be the coach. You know what I'm saying? Like, you don't want somebody who's

like, yeah, he's the coach, but, but things get dicey. I'm moving on and hire my own guy, right? Like, you want to feel like, hey, this is my guy. Because the one thing I've learned in this job, you can't do this job well if you don't have like a great, great partner. And you have to have an AD or a GM or, you know, whatever, who's a great partner with you. And so, Treve was a great partner. You know, when I was at Temple, you know, we won a ton of games, Pat Krafters now the AD at Penn State was like, it was like my right-hand guy. Like, we battled through everything together. As a Baylor, Mac Rose, was like my right-hand guy. So Trev, I picked coming here partially because he was going to be my right-hand guy.

When we lost him, obviously it's frustrating, but I've known Troy. And so when Troy came in the mix, I was like, all right, that's someone that I really believe in. You know, when you win at Tulane, like, you know how to get things done to win. And we were sitting up in Havlock at one of the bars and have a lot last year watching two lane play uh USC and watching two lane beat usc and whatever bowl game it was like that's mind blowing so to have that ad here with us with these resources i was like all right we'll be all right yeah how much were you involved with that decision with getting him here with intro here they asked me for some feedback they asked me for some names i gave him three names and he was one of those names you know and uh obviously i mean i didn't pick it

you know chris kuborik was interim president did all the work on it but i appreciated them saying like hey who would you know who would you want and i said hey there's probably a lot of guys here's a couple guys I know. He had just gotten to Washington, obviously getting to Washington, going to the national championship game, and then leaving to come here. That's hard, and that'll be hard for him. I think it says a lot about Nebraska, though, that someone would be at a place like Washington and want to come here.

So they were really good to be through that process, you know, asking me, I'm sure they asked Fred, some others, you know, hey, what do you think? But I knew that Troy was the type of guy that would come here. And I'm hoping is always, like, just put this place on steroids. Like, we got the best of the best. Yeah. But, like, what we do need to do is, like, we, we, need to like have an urgency like we can't just it can't be five and seven we we can't be just an average team in the country this is the university of Nebraska like we're supposed to be here

and we're here and we're here and so it's not my fault we're here it's not anybody's fault we're here we're just here but we got to get if it's if we're here in three or four years then that is my fault so having troy involved uh makes me feel really good about that looking for an assist with your credit card but can't get a hold of anyone luckily with 24 7 u.s. based live customer service from discover every Everyone has the option to talk to a real person any time day or night. Yes, you heard that right. You can talk to a real human and customer service anytime.

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and getting a lot better in those set areas? Yeah, I think what Treve allowed me to do was go out and hire a big-time strength staff with the right amount of people, hire a big-time nutrition staff with, you know, with the right amount of people. And that's nothing about anybody that shared before. They were great coach. I'm just saying hiring my people. And, you know, when I first started, like, you know, we had one strength coach and one assistant at Temple.

And then it was like one strength coach and four assistants. And now we live in a world where like, you better have sport science people and you better have interns. And you better have, you know, you better have a PT and a director of rehab and a director of return to play. And I mean, this is a whole different world now. And so how do you keep players from going into the portal and leaving? They know that they're getting developed. They know they're getting better. I know everyone's going to say NIL.

Yeah, that's part of it, obviously. but if you're at a place where you're like, man, I'm getting bigger, I'm getting stronger, my mind's getting better, I'm learning the game of football. If you know you're getting developed, then you're probably going to stick around. And so putting money and infrastructure into that, we have the best, I'm telling you, we have the best nutritionist in the country. She's here, her and her team, they're here. They have two full-time chefs just for football who are also dietitians.

Like, they know every person's food allergy, every person's want. We have five guys doing Ramadan. Like they're here at 430, 445 making food for those guys so they can eat before first prayer. They're giving them food at night. Like they are the best nutrition staff in the country. That's not cheap. It's not easy. We need to go hire them from the SEC and bring them here.

So Trev allowed us to do all that stuff. The key to me is putting the right people in this building. And if you have the right people in this building, that that will attract and retain really good players. Yeah. Go ahead. No, I was just kind of like, hell yeah. Yeah, no, that was real. You got to surround your athletes with the right people.

That's the only way you can make the program better, and I feel that I wish I'd play for Nebraska. And they get you juiced up, right? Yeah, they get you juiced up, man. Real talk. So, like, did you bring, so you talked about the NIL deal, being from going to Temple, Temple not having that, and now having that, how does that change your coaching, your recruit?

Like, how is it? Because you old school, now to this new school, where it's crazy and it's not really policed. Right, right. I think it's one of the good things for me that I was in the NFL and I dealt with the whole free agent process, right? Like my whole thing in that time was like, hey, when it gets to the end of the season, like you handle your money.

Like you handle you, you handle you once you agree to your contract or you're with us, then you're with us. And like, that was always my thing. So when a player was like, hey, you know, I'm going to do this for my contract. I understood it because I was like, you know, I've, I've had probably seven or eight different contracts. I've been head coached four different times with, you know, renegotiations. I probably had seven or eight contracts.

Like when it comes time for that, it's time for that. So coming into the world of NIL, when a player is seeking to get what's theirs, I have no fundamental issue with that. If it starts to bleed over into, well, if I don't get this, I'm not doing that. That's not how you, it's not how you do things in the NFL other than, you know, if you're holding out, which is different. But I'm saying, like, you know, you have to have the business side and you have to have your, other side. And so we're preparing our guys for life and we're preparing it for the National

Football League. And so everything they do from how they recover to taking notes and meetings to their mindset to now how you handle the business part of it is something that I want to be the best at. So yeah, I mean, it's definitely different. What I did see when I was in the NFL, when we drafted some young players, I saw some guys with a lot of talent who at a couple of schools, I was like, man, they really didn't coach you very hard, did they? Because they were so afraid that maybe that person was going to end up in the portal. And you know what? Like, I'm sorry.

If you want to be great, you've got to get coached hard. If you want to be great, you need to be coached hard. And what I mean by that is when it's right, it's right. When it's wrong, when it's wrong, we're going to celebrate. When you do it wrong, we're not going to celebrate. When you do it wrong again, we're going to talk about it. And when I'm wrong, and I think that's one of the things I do best as a head coach, when I'm wrong, then I'm going to talk about it too.

I'm going to stand up in front of the team. Like, I messed this up, guys. And so being in a program that doesn't push guys like that, they become fifth round draft picks instead of first round draft picks. And we're trying to produce first round draft picks. And, you know, when I talked to Dion Dawkins, when I talked to some of those guys that I coached in college, they're still telling funny stories.

I don't even remember. Like, remember the time you did this? Remember the time you did that? I probably did do that. Like you're doing to coach Polini while watching you, you know. But they need to be pushed. They need to be developed. And so think about everything I've talked about.

You give them the best facilities. You put the best people around them that are, helping them and protecting them, but then you have a high standard form, they got to want those things. And then at the same time, when you have an opportunity, you know, if NIL can help take care of them, then we take care of them. And, you know, that's why I believe that we're always going to be successful. And what we've seen in two years is not many guys want to leave.

You know, they want to be here. There's a difference from someone who's like, hey, coach, I'm not playing. I'd love to go play at this. We've helped more guys do that. We love those guys. But no one's saying, hey, I want to go leave because, you know, I'm upset about this or that. Do you feel like Nebraska and everybody around the state understands the importance of NIL?

So I know last year there were a couple clips going around. Not of you pushing that, not of you pushing saying people don't, but people having the expectation of quarterback play, hey, a starting quarterback, it costs this, it costs that, or you need the level of support out there to match the level of expectation. Do you feel like that's happening here? Yeah, I got, I had some coaches, I had some coaches across the country, hit me up. Like, hey, man, how are you going to put that out there? But I was like, it's the reality, right?

Like, that's the problem, in my mind, that's the problem with NIL is it's not transparent. Like in the NFL, as you guys know, if an agent would have called us and been like, hey, you know what, for Will Compton, I know I've got, I've already got three years, you know, eight million a year. You know, can you guys do $8.5. And then we're like, no, we can't pull the trigger on that. And all of a sudden, we see he signs three years for $4 million a year. And we know that agent lied to us. And we're never doing business with him again. You know, so the NFL is so transparent because you see the contracts after.

It was in the NIL world, it's all kind of hidden. So I forget what you just asked me, bro. The support, yeah, he said the CTA. Yeah, the support of the level of support matching the expectations. So my point has always been like, hey, let's keep it all out there. Let's make it, let's put it all out there and say, you know, like, there's teams that we, that we're going to face that spend $20 million on the football team, 20 to $25 million in the football team.

So, you know, a lot of people will tell me, like, I don't believe in NIL. And I'm like, well, it's not something to believe in it or not. It's real. It's here. Like, it's what it is. So I'm always like, hey, if you want us to finish first, then let's put first, like, first, first, first, everything. First coaching staff, for salary pool, first facilities, first NIL. There's a reason why in the NFL, they have parity, they have a salary cap.

And there is really no salary cap in college right now. So I think we're heading in the right. direction. I think it's hard for some people to sometimes understand like, you know, what are we doing here? To me, investing in young people is never wrong. Like, everyone has this thing of like, oh, kids are going to wait. You know what? I'm only where I'm at in my life because people have invested in me and given me opportunities. So if we can help young people on our team have opportunities for name image and lightness, then I'm 100% for it. And if we want to win, we better do it at a really high level. Do you got anything else? No, go ahead. No, I'm solid.

I wanted to talk about this. I know in Temple, you was, what, the first coach to have two consecutive 10 game wins since 1979. And you talked about some of them players. And you're trying to bring that mentality here to Nebraska, correct? Like, that's what you're looking for. Yeah, you know, the way we played football at Temple, I mean, you have to, I love Temple. I love Temple University. Temple is in North Philadelphia.

field. That's a real neighborhood with great people. You go to Temple. You're a tough person. You grow up in a tough place. You put your feet on concrete every day. So we had to play football that way. So like we were going to hit you. We were going to strike you. We kept track of like the amount of times a team we played lost the next week. Like we always kept track of that score. We're trying to beat you on Saturday and then have you lose again next Saturday. And so we played football that way. And what that allows us to do, because we practice that way and lifted that way, you know, what we had a lot of guys come in with one-star recruits no-star recruits who went on a play pro football

played in canada played in the NFL because they got they got trained and when you have a team like temple and you beat vanderbilt at vanderbilt you know coming off a seven-win season when you beat pen state for the first time of 74 years it's only because your players have put put the work in and we went to baler bailer was a little different we were a little more spread we still played good defense when we came here we were like where can we go that we can but people love defense people will love special teams. People will love practice. People won't think that working hard is, you know,

is a punishment. You know, like, there's people that pay money to go crossfit. They call it CrossFit, right? They do it. Like, this isn't punishment. This is, we're investing in you. Where can we go? And Nebraska's team like that. You know, they believe in the running game. They believe in being physical. They believe in defense. So

I believe that this is like the way we were at Temple, but just with way more resources and way, way, way, way, way more opportunities. And so that's what made this job. So that's why my wife kept saying, like, you need to go there. Like, like, where else are you going to go that's going to play football the way you really want to play it deep down inside? Because deep down inside, I want to play football that way. I want the game to be nine on seven, you know. And so, you know, I love

having great quarterbacks. You know, you've met a couple of them. I want to throw the ball around and be fun. But at the end of the day, I want to win the physical battle. And that's why I love my time at Temple. And that's what I believe Nebraska will let us do. We interrupt this episode to bring you Sam's Selects. award-winning actor, Sam Richardson is back in Pure Michigan and his hometown of Detroit just in time for the 2024 draft. All of Detroit is on the clock and Sam is so excited, is so excited that he is doing a draft of his own. Detroit is a great sports town with four major pro sports teams and tons of upcoming sporting events and unique teams. Join Sam as he takes you to some of his top picks in the

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how is nebraska been from new york like the difference like yeah no doubt no doubt you know um before i took this job i wanted to come out and see it and i think it's the number one thing that happens um in recruiting like you first hear i will recruit a kid from miami recruit a kid from anywhere and you're here in And you think, honestly, they dig like cornfield and a campus, right? And I remember when I was in the big 12, you know, you go to Oklahoma State and it was like a little downtown and then a big stadium. So I thought it was going to be that. And my wife and I were like, I don't know about that.

We came here and we went down. We drove around the Haymarket. We drove down O Street. And I was like, this is like a city. I mean, it's not a big city. But this is like a big town or a small city. I was like, if I can't recruit here, you know, where can I recruit? You know, we started driving around looking at, you know, the town.

overall. I mean, it's, man, it's like eight or nine public high schools right here in Lincoln. And then, you know, you drive 40 minutes, 45 minutes to Omaha. And Omaha is one of the coolest cities that people don't know about one of the coolest cities in the Midwest. Like, you come back here. I don't know if you ever went to the College World Series. I thought I was in like, it's like a mixture of like the NCAA Final Four and Mardi Gras all in one. I'm like, this is unbelievable and great concerts and great. So, so yeah, it's not New York City. But the people here love football. It's safe. You know, there's not a place in town where I'm like, there's on a place here in Lincoln

where I'm like, hey guys, don't go there, don't go here. It's, the people here care about the team. They care about people. It's safe. It's close to everything. We're in the Big Ten now that goes from East Coast to West Coast, but we only have a two and a half hour flight here or two a half hour. Other guys are going to be swinging five, six hours

West Coast to East Coast, East Coast to West Coast. Like, we're in the center part of the country, a quick flight to Chicago, two hour drive to Kansas City. I came here and I was like, you know, Lincoln, Lincoln's Lincoln's what I was kind of looking for. A big city, not just a college town. It's a state capital.

And Omaha's fire. I don't care what people say. It's got a great restaurant scene. So I've really, really, really enjoyed it. I still like going back to New York City every once in a while and getting on the subway. And, you know, I need a little fixing. But I've loved being able to be here, be out on a farm and then be downtown in a nice restaurant, you know, 20-minute difference. Dylan was talking about the mat drills.

and talking how serious those were. Some coaches do away with the mad drills, especially in this day and age. Why? You got them alive and well. You know what's really cool for me is there was like a Twitter thread, and it was players, you know, Jared works for me over here, that played for us at Western Carolina, I don't know, 20 years ago,

and players from Temple and players from Baylor, and the players from here, and they were all making, basically making fun of me. me, you know, because I run the mat drill. Like, it ain't like I'm like, I show up, but I sit in the mat drill. I'm the first row. Like, I run the mat drill and sat, who's my OC, was been with me at Western and Temple. He's the next guy.

And then a coup who did the mat drills as a player, he's one of the guys. So like, if you're coaching the mat drill, if you're on the mat, like, you either went through it or you know, you're kind of OOU from way back when. So. Yeah. But to me, it's a right of passage. And we have a player, M.J. Sherman here. he came from the University of Georgia,

won national championships, you know, and at first was kind of like, why are we doing this coach in a very respectful way, but struggled with it. And he had an interview the other day, and he was like, you know what, I would never want to go through the Matt drills again, but a Matt drill will make a man out of you. And, yeah, you can go out there and you can do football drills only,

and you can run around bags and all that. But, like, all the research, I don't care if you listen to David Goggins, Jock, Willink, you read, all the research says, that our brains get better, they get stronger when we do things we don't want to do. We have to, we have to.

We can't get saturated with dopamine where everything's at our fingertips. And you have to earn and do hard things every single day, not as punishment, but actually as a reward for yourself. So the mat drills, man, they're just eight times. The standard's unbelievably high. If you don't do it, we're doing it again the next morning. And when they graduate and come through that,

the goal is someday. Someday we take the field and our guys look at the other team and they're like, you know what, There's no way you paid the same place we played. There's no way you're out there for three hours in the spring ball like we are. There's no way you have six a.m. meetings. There's no way you do mat drills and then do position work afterwards. There's just no way.

And if you do, then let's have a good game. And so that's, we're not there yet, but we're pushing it towards that. And look at Dylan, five-star recruit, you know, quarterback. You know, should he lay out and dive in the mat drills? He gets out there. He's doing it. You know, he's doing it. And they will eventually have a brotherhood where they all like, hey, we all did it.

I love that. I wonder how Nash How do How Nash You gotta dominate Huh? Yeah Nash is

You don't want to go With the med ball Against Nash You know And in fairness This year You know We didn't have Nash

Do anything But Nat You know He basically went through his own I mean He's crazy And you know It's funny with

He He He uh And the one Chasing 3 We did that We did that little We did this little

episodes A little documentary And he's talking about Wrestling He was like His dad said Yeah Like

He was excited To finally get back to that type of training where you really push yourself. And I was like, oh, so you're trying to say wrestling's harder than football. He was like, no, no, no, no. But he told me, he's like, coach, it's just, and our defensive staff went over and watched wrestling. And they came back and they were like, you know, all right, we got it.

Like, whatever he's doing is enough. And God bless him. Like, he showed up every day to Matt Jones with his cleats on, his shirt on. And I'd be like, stand on the side and he'd watch, but he was there for his brothers, you know, like, but what he was going through was tough, man. Oh, yeah. What he was going through was tough. You know, he was losing weight and still lifting and training with us and then going out and fighting for the wrestling team.

I mean, you know, we have three guys running track. We have one guy running, one guy did wrestling. I mean, we kind of got some multi-sport. Half-time dunk contest. Fire. That one was. I got dunk. Emmett went up to dunk and he hit me in the back of the head, but I was out there for him, you know.

But you know what? I think that's so cool for our guys, right? Like it's one thing to get a bunch of publicity like for like, you know, for your name. It's another thing to get publicity for like what you do. And those guys, whether they're giving back to the community or they're dunking a basketball halftime, like it's way different dunking a basketball at the intramural center than in front of like 15,000 people. Your heart rate's jumping out, you know, but you know.

It looked good. It was, they were throwing it down. Yes. Fidoni was, you know, Fidoni coming off two ACLs. I mean, that went from the foul line, you know, I mean, it was really fun to see those guys go out there and get that done. Well, Coach, we appreciate your time. I feel like I had one other thing.

Oh, Heinrich, we get a pet peeve. We asked him what he loves about Coach Rule and a pet peeve about Coach Rule. His pet peeve is, what was his pet peeve? Basically, you get started on something. You're like, hey, it's going to be, guys, just a quick little message, quick little two-minute message that turns into like 15 minutes and then you get the rambling about some story. Because you say he got to go to class.

He's like, I'm trying to get the class. ends up running Texas Heinrich tell them to see him in the office real quick No, it's funny because like they

I can see the guys imitate me and it's like I don't realize I do some of the things I do but like the guys that Bailey would imitate me

they'd be like we're gonna go here and then I see these guys doing the same invitation I'm like I must really do that I guess I really do that well coach we appreciate your time

nah I appreciate you guys being here though that means a lot that you guys are here so thanks for having sorry for letting you down in Memphis

you know what though the fact that you're here and the fact that we got the live show tonight, like, that's going to be... You're wearing the jersey? If I can fit into it. You can fit into it.

I mean, I know they had to stretch it back in the day, you know? That would have been a different story. But appreciate you. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what?

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