1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: And I truly, truly believe like for me, for me 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: as the head coach, like I have to have that urgency, 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: I have to leave no stone unturned. I have to 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: have the same discipline in my life that I want 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: them to have. 6 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 2: All Right, everybody, It's not often that you get to 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 2: bring on a person that's not only a friend, but 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: somebody that you admire in a very significant way. Now, 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 2: over my career, I've been exposed to so many different 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: coaches and instructors and people that really spend a lot 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: of time influencing other people and particular young men. And 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: one of the people that has had the greatest impact 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 2: on me in my life because of how much he cares, 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 2: because of how much he's dedicated to what it is 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 2: he does for a living, he really transforms people's lives. 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: And So, without further ado, I'd love to welcome my friend, 17 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: coach Matt Ruhle to the show. 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: Thank you Matt for coming on. 19 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: Oh, thank you broth and for I think you know this, 20 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: but the feelings beyond beyond usual in terms of how 21 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: I feel about you. So thanks for having me here. 22 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 3: Absolutely, let's get right in. 23 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 2: I know you're coming off big ten press week and 24 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: doing five gazillion interviews about specifics and you know what's 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 2: coming up in the season. So I thought we'd just 26 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: get started with you know. I mean, you go to 27 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: through a week like that, and obviously everybody wants you 28 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 2: to give the details of your expectation of performance, what 29 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: you think is going to be good or bad? What 30 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 2: How do you look at the season in terms of 31 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 2: not verse wins or losses, but in terms of your 32 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: players and what you want your players to really lean 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: into this year in terms of their development and their 34 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 2: cohesion as a team. 35 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's year three for us, you know, 36 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: so you know, year one you come in. You know, 37 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: guys don't even know what to expect. You know, the 38 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: way we do things is is different, you know, maybe 39 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: than what they've done before. It's it's hard, and so 40 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: that the first year you're kind of teaching it. You 41 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: want them, you want them to sort of learn the process. 42 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: That that second year they start to live it out. 43 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: You know, they kind of know what to do. Now 44 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: they have to make a decision like am I gonna 45 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: am I gonna do it? Am I not gonna do it? 46 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you're you're you're working harder than you 47 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: ever have in your life, and you're getting some results, 48 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: but not what you wanted. And so there's there's kind 49 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: of almost like a decision that has to be made 50 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: by everybody, and and when they make that decision, if 51 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: they if they decide to buy in, then then year 52 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: three here for us. 53 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm looking for ownership. 54 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: I'm looking for guys that like, no longer coach rules way, 55 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: it's our way, you know. And we reported today it's 56 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: like even so I told our coaches like, I don't 57 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: I want you to walk in this building every day 58 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: as a coach and be like, I'm so grateful to 59 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: be here. I love the food, I love I love 60 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: the gear, I love the clothing. I don't want you 61 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: to complain, like this is ours, you know. And I 62 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: think when you have ownership and anything is possible, you know, 63 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: they're they're gonna they're take it and run with it. 64 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: And that's why my other college stops, we always played 65 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: for a championship a year three because it was no 66 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: longer me, it was them. 67 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 2: And that's one of my favorite components about your past 68 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 2: is you know, you look at what you were able 69 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: to do at Temple and the three year turnaround and 70 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: then at Baylor. Probably my favorite stories that you talk 71 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: about was when you went over to the Carolina Panthers 72 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 2: and how you learn you really understand, Hey, that wasn't 73 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: the right job for me, and I learned a tremendous amount. 74 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: You have two essentially new head coach, you know, had 75 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 2: new defensive coordinator and then obviously Dan Dana came in 76 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: at the end of last season. How do you get 77 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 2: them to come in and recognize, hey, this is year three, 78 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: this is the year that the expectations have rised, not 79 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 2: only for our players because they're bought in, how do 80 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 2: you get them to speed up and get on on par. 81 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: I mean, they're both incredible professionals. They have wonderful backgrounds, 82 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: whether in the NFL or or or when they were 83 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: at Houston or West Virginia. So how do you look 84 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: to them and what do you say to them about 85 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: their buy in? 86 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: You know, I think it's a great question. I think 87 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: it's it's really one of the as you're going through 88 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: the recruiting, the recruiting, but the hiring process. I think 89 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: you're looking at them and saying, like, are they going 90 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: to have the urgency. Are they going to have the intentionality? 91 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: Are they going to have the selflessness you know, required 92 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: to get this thing done. It's not just you know, hey, 93 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: what are my stats? It's what does it take to 94 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: win this game? So I hope the first part is 95 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: just in the selection of people. But I truly truly believe, 96 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: like for me, for me as as the head coach, 97 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: like I have to model. I have to model what 98 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: I want from the people you know that report to me. 99 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: And so I have to have that urgency. I have 100 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: to leave no stone unturned. I have to have the 101 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: same discipline in my life that I want them to have. 102 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: So if I have that, then I hope it's and 103 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: it starts to catch on to you know, the coordinators, 104 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: and then I hope that then it catches on to 105 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: the staff and everybody, and he catches all the way 106 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: to the players and every single player. It's really hard, 107 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: in my opinion, to tell people what to do if 108 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 1: you're not doing it. And so if I have if 109 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: I have that urgency of like, hey, it's time for 110 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: us to win. Now, it's time for us to perform, 111 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: I then can hold like I can hold people accountable, 112 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: you know, I can help them if they need help. 113 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: I can challenge them when they need challenged, but they 114 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: can't I can't allow it when they turn around to 115 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: me and they say like, well, you're not doing X, 116 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: Y and Z. And so for me, this year, I've taken, 117 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: you know, since the end of last season, I've taken 118 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: tremendous personal ownership over what happens this this uh this season. 119 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: And as you know, sometimes that means you have to 120 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: let go. I gotta let Dana go do what Dana 121 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: does and he's great at it. I have to let 122 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: John do what he does. I can't hold everything together. 123 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: I've got to just uh trust them. But at the 124 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: same time have a standard, and that standard will you know, 125 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: we won't we won't compromise that standard for me. 126 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: I one of the things that I love most is 127 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: every year, I you know, there's there's the game where 128 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: you give the badass speech and and you know it 129 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 2: goes viral on the internet, and or you do some 130 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 2: postgame interview where you just like you just deliver the 131 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: right words that that generate this fam familial atmosphere at Nebraska. 132 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: And you said something during the Big Ten media Day 133 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 2: that it was like, well, as a head What do 134 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: great coaches do right? Great coaches listen, great coaches ask questions. 135 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 2: Can you describe a little bit more about that in 136 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: terms of that relationship between your new offensive decent defensive coordinator. 137 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: They're coming in, they're implementing the air raid offense. You know, 138 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 2: you're looking for that really to beef up your secondary 139 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 2: and you know, uh in the defense. How does that 140 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: that mindset of listening and then asking and right answering 141 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 2: the right questions not only with your players, but your 142 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 2: coaches work too. 143 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 3: Can you describe that a little bit more? 144 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, And I think that's that's probably the 145 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: place of most growth for me. You know, since I 146 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: was the head coach at Temple, you know, thirteen years ago, 147 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: twelve years ago, whatever, it was. 148 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 4: Like, no just do this and no, just do that. 149 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: And you know, I think you know, when you think 150 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: about people, I mean, the best thing you can do 151 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: is ask questions and get them, especially now where people 152 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: don't want to talk they want to text, right, Like 153 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: asking questions and getting people to talk. And even if 154 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: I know what I want the answer to be or 155 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: where I believe the answer should be, if I'm asking them. 156 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 4: I started. We always start with why why would we 157 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 4: do this? And why do you want to do that? 158 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: And sometimes it illuminates for me like oh my gosh, 159 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: they're right, I'm wrong, and hey, let's go this path. 160 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: Like I could care less about being right or wrong. 161 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: I just want to end up afterwards saying, hey, we 162 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: did the right thing. So I try to ask the 163 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: right questions. But at the same time, if if, if 164 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: that's not the best path that they want to do, 165 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: and I'm asking the right questions, it's leading them, it's 166 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: guiding them. 167 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 4: Towards oh, you know, maybe we should do this over here. 168 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: And so I have no problem day would have no 169 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: problems to that saying like, no, guys, this is what 170 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: we're doing. I have no problem saying, hey, no, this 171 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: is the direction we're going to go. And uh, they're loyal. 172 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: I know they'll always they'll always buy into that. But 173 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: I think when they feel a part of it, I 174 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: think when they feel ownership to it's it's uh, when 175 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: I thought they can talk to you, I think it's 176 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: it's just a game changer. 177 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 4: Right. 178 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: So, you know, great organizations, great teams have great discourse. 179 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: You know, they challenge each other, they talk and that's 180 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: what I want. And if I'm not willing to listen, 181 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: then no one's no one's gonna ever talk. And so 182 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: I've had to grow in terms of listening better then 183 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: also asking the right questions. And when you do that, 184 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: you get great information. And you know, Dan has been 185 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: a head coach. So we were in the meeting earlier. 186 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: We were talking about like walk throughs in the pace 187 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: and tempo, and you know, I was kind of stuck 188 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: on what we should do and he I was like, 189 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: what do do you think? And he just he gave 190 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: a direct answer, and I said, great, let's let's move. 191 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: Let's let's move in that direction. And what it's done 192 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: for me is things that you should take me. I 193 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: got to make these eight decisions that's going to take 194 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: me all this time to do it. Like maybe now 195 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: it's five, maybe three, things like Johnson say, hey, I 196 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: think we should do this, So being willing to not 197 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: you know, so often as leaders we think we have 198 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: to have all the answers. You know, you just have 199 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: to end up making the right decision in the end. 200 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: And so asking people what they would do getting there 201 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: buying I think it creates a great dynamic and you 202 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: get the right answer usually I. 203 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: I you know, I've always loved the way you provide 204 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: that environment for your you know, the people that work 205 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: with you, your coaches, and your players. 206 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 3: But even goes beyond that. 207 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I you know, I just think the entire 208 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 2: community of Nebraska football, Nebraska athletics has really evolved since 209 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 2: you've been there, you know, with all the new changes 210 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: that have taken place, all the new facilities and the 211 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 2: new you know, just a Nebraska athletics as a whole, 212 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 2: it just seems like it's on this this this ascension 213 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 2: towards becoming a more dominant athletic program in a country. 214 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 2: You know, do you find that it's really bringing a 215 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: greater sensation of pride to these new players coming in? 216 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 2: I know you've got a tremendous amount of new players 217 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 2: in this year. And do you do you sense that 218 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 2: it's having the impact that you had wanted. 219 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 4: It to have? Absolutely? 220 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it takes on various forms, right 221 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: Like you know, when we when we when we have 222 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: two guys on our wrestling team, you know, win national championships, 223 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: and we have Jordy Balls, the best softball player in 224 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: the country. When are men's and women's teams, you know 225 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: make it. You know the postseason when when our volleyball team, 226 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: you know Harper Murray and you know uh Andy Jackson, 227 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: and you know all these great players Berg and Riley, 228 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: they're they're dominating. You know, you walk you walk around 229 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 1: campus and you're like, hey, I'm part of something that's 230 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: bigger than me. I'm part of an elite athletic department 231 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: that you know, we win championships at the highest level. 232 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: And to your point, we're ascending, We're getting better and 233 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: better and better. So I want them to feeld tremendous 234 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: pride in that. Then I want them to feel the 235 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: investment being made, you know, by by us as a staff, 236 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: by the athletic department, Like, hey, you're important man, We're 237 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna, we're gonna bring you the best facilities, 238 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you the best food, We're gonna bring 239 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: you the best coaches. And then to your point, just 240 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: like the state, I mean, people all across the state 241 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: like we we are we are the NFL team here, 242 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: like we are the show in town. 243 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 4: And so. 244 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that are counting on us 245 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: to play well there's a lot of people that are 246 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: counting on us, and so that can sometimes feel like pressure, like, 247 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: oh man, everyone's counting, But no, like I want them 248 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: to say to themselves, like, how lucky am I that 249 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: I'm at a place where everything I do matters and 250 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: my performance matters. And so it's not pressure, it's it's 251 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a it's a privilege that people 252 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: care that much about what you do. So, yeah, from 253 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: where we were to where we are right now, it's 254 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: it's light years ahead. And then you know, we'll just 255 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: keep taking the same path. We getting a little bit 256 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: better every day, and and as we do that, though, 257 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: as you know, the pressure will mount. But we love 258 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 1: that Pressure's why we came to Nebraska to be a 259 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: part of that. That's that's my favorite aspect of it. 260 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 2: It's like that, the the ambition of it, right, the 261 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 2: ambition of matching the expectations from you know, all the 262 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 2: different championships, all the different Heisman winners, you know, the 263 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: storied pass of Nebraska football, and it's it's like you 264 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 2: have that weight on your shoulders, but now it's it's 265 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 2: you're almost in a new place. It's you're independent of it. 266 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 2: And I think that's the beautiful aspect of your leadership 267 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 2: style and your leadership. I remember when you first got 268 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 2: the job, you know you told me that. Uh, the 269 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: ad at the time was like, you know, there there 270 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 2: there two most important people in Nebraska are the governor 271 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 2: the head football coach. And you know that's a tremendous 272 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: that's a tremendous burden. But the thing that I've I've 273 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 2: always seen with you wherever you go is like you 274 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 2: ever look at it as a burden. It's it's goes 275 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 2: back to that sensational pride. Can you talk a little 276 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 2: bit about you know, playing in that stadium that's been 277 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 2: sold out for you know what fifty plus years, the crowd, 278 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 2: the people that support Nebraska football. 279 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: Can you describe that a little bit. Yeah, it's it's humbling. 280 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: I mean it's amazing, it's you know, it's uh, it's 281 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:24,719 Speaker 1: it's humbling because you know, we haven't been really successful 282 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: since like two thousand, you know, at a high, high, 283 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: high level. Right now, there was some Bonpoline has some 284 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: wonderful years ten ten wins level and be careful how 285 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: I say that, but really till last year, it has 286 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: been since twenty sixteen, that until we won a bowl game. 287 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: Yet the fans come every week and they come because 288 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: it's their state, it's their team. 289 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 4: Those players are their players. They have tremendous ownership in 290 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 4: the program. 291 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: And you last year, I remember thanking the fans like 292 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: thanks for coming for all this time, even though it 293 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: hasn't been at the level that we want, you know, 294 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: until now and so, but that makes the game special. 295 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 4: The the the. 296 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: Traditions here, the light shows when we can do, the balloons, 297 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: the looms, you know, just I mean, it's a passionate crowd. 298 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: And David, they don't just love football, they also know football. 299 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: I'll go to speak at different places and you know, 300 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: I'll get I'll get questions from people. I'll get question 301 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: from men, women, young, old, and they're all smart football 302 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: questions because they understand the game. 303 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 4: Think. 304 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: I mean, they come early, we come out for warm 305 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: ups and everyone's there. They stay to the end. And 306 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: so to be able to last year, give them some moments, 307 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: you know, beating Colorado, which is obviously a better rivalry, 308 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, beating Wisconsin for the first time in twelve years, 309 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: going you know, which let us go to a bowl 310 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: game and seeing the people in the stands right seeing 311 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: seeing how excited they were. 312 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 4: You know, let's me. 313 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: You know, the game's over. I'm thinking about next week. 314 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: I think about what do I say in the locker 315 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: room and get ready for next week. But when you 316 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: make it about not just you but other people, when 317 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's when you're having joy for them, 318 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: it's really pretty special because they've shown up all these 319 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: years and only asking for Nebraska's best in return and 320 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: to be able to make a step and go to 321 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: a bowl, win a bowl, it was it was really 322 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: really all because they give us a great atmosphere each 323 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: and every week. 324 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: That's that's phenomenal. I think you know, when you play 325 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 2: in anytime, you're a part of a something that that's 326 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 2: not just transactional, right. I think, you know, that's the 327 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: thing I learned a little bit when you were at Carolina. 328 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 2: There's the you know that you know, pro football is 329 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 2: a little bit more transactional right within within college football, 330 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: it's it's it's there's a legacy involved that you're always 331 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 2: up against. You're always trying to cultivate it and and 332 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 2: moreph you know, your own personality to kind of keep 333 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 2: lifting it up and taking it to the next level. Well, 334 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 2: anybody that takes five seconds and looks at your upcoming 335 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 2: season and what your schedule looks like, there's no doubt 336 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 2: that you are upping you know, that that pressure and 337 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 2: upping that that level of performance. You know, I think 338 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: that obviously for me and I think everybody else. You know, 339 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 2: every question that seemed to kind of press you on 340 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: on the season, and this you know, centers around September twentieth, 341 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 2: November first, and November twenty second in terms of Michigan 342 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: Penn State and you're alma mater, you know, Michigan USC, 343 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 2: and then you're alma mater Penn State. I know you 344 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 2: don't look at at a season in that capacity. You 345 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 2: look at one game at a time. But when you 346 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 2: set a schedule like that and you pull your your 347 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 2: coaches and your team together, you know, how do you 348 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 2: get them to one respect the magnitude of what's in 349 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 2: front of them, but also stay focused on showing up 350 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: and doing the work each and every day. 351 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're exactly right like that that that that is 352 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: the job, right because you know we're so obviously we're 353 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: so outcome driven, which we should be, but you know. 354 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: To me, you know, like, okay, well we want to 355 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: go up. We want to go CFP, we want to 356 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: want to want to big win the Big ten, we 357 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: want to win the national championship. But like, shoot, so 358 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: does everybody else, you know, every every team in the 359 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: country say that. So you know, goals are easy. Execution 360 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,959 Speaker 1: is everything, and so how do you execute? You come 361 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: out every single day, And my point to our guys 362 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: is always, however, whatever the intensity we're going to have 363 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: for the last game of the season, whatever, whether that's 364 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: a national championship game, a bowl game, a playoff game, 365 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: or the last game, whatever the last game of the 366 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: year is, whatever that intensity we're going to play with 367 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: is well, then we got to practice that. 368 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 4: Way tomorrow and we probably will tomorrow. 369 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 1: But like ten days in when you're sore and beat up, 370 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: practice that way ten days from now, and there has 371 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: to be that same intensity. There has to be that 372 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: same message about every single day, like going out there 373 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: and just being great because to me, the wins are 374 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: fun because they're achievement. It's fun to go out and achieve, 375 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: but it's just a measure showing showing your greatness. Like 376 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,959 Speaker 1: I want to play good teams so that we can 377 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: show that we're great. But then I also have a 378 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: chance to just be great and everything that we do, like, 379 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: we can be great. And the way we work out 380 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: in the mornings, we can be great. In the way 381 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: that we meet, the way that we do everything. And really, 382 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: when I think about my goal, it's I want to 383 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: run an elite great really the best college football program 384 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: in the country. Like and that's not just on game days, like, 385 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: I want that to be every single day. Everything we 386 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: do is marked by excellence. And so if excellence starts 387 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 1: being your running partner, then you got a pretty good 388 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: chance if you wait for three or four games and like, okay, 389 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: let's be great today. But we got the top team 390 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: in the country and you're and you're not living an 391 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: excellence each and every day and you're not straining, you're 392 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: not you're not making yourself miserable each day so that 393 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: you could say, hey, I did something really hard that 394 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: it's hard to do something hard later we we we've 395 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: got to live that way every single day. And so 396 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: you know, it started last year at the end of 397 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: last year, and I remember putting up the schedule that David, like, 398 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: I was like, hey, look, cow, many teams are like 399 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: five and seven step six and six seven. 400 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 4: Seven five like us. 401 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: Who's who's gonna who's gonna who's gonna be, who's gonna 402 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: be pushing themselves, who's gonna be, who's gonna embrace hard things, 403 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: who's gonna have the courage to do things are afraid 404 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: to do for the next six months to get to 405 00:18:59,520 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: the season. 406 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 4: And our guys have done it. So I look forward 407 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 4: to those games. 408 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: But I also look forward to to everyone that we 409 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: played because it's a chance for our guys to go 410 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: out there and show greatness, show excellence, show mastery. I'll 411 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: show the love they have for each other in the game. 412 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: And that's that's that's why I got into this whole 413 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: thing for. 414 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, I think that's always the component 415 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 2: as a as a coach, that you want you want 416 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 2: to you want to inspire these people to go up 417 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 2: against those giant hurdles, right you you know, to look 418 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 2: at that as the aspiration, that's the ambition, right, And 419 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 2: that's if I'm not going against Penn State at Penn State, 420 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 2: then why am I even playing this damn game? 421 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 3: Right? 422 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: And and I want it, you know, And for Dylan 423 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 2: to go against Drew like that's that's his dream coming true. 424 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 2: And so for me it's just like wow, I mean, 425 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 2: these young kids are always You're always putting the opportunity 426 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: in front of them to develop those leadership traits through 427 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 2: their wor work ethic, their play and then really to 428 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 2: to lift other people around them up. Who are some 429 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: of the guys on the young men on your team 430 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 2: right now that are really exemplifying, uh, in meeting that 431 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: challenge in their development as young leaders. 432 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a great uh another great question. 433 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: But we we have, you know, you always have like 434 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,199 Speaker 1: the guys that like when I think about leadership, I'm 435 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: always there's always the guys that love like it up 436 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: and give a speech. There's always the guys a lot 437 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: like like and that that's great, right, I mean we 438 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: want we want those things, but it's convenient sometimes, right, 439 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: Like things are going well and hey, I'm gonna rally, 440 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 1: the boys are gonna go out there. To me, I'm 441 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: always looking at hey when things are really hard, when 442 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: things are you know, the shifts are stacked against us, 443 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,199 Speaker 1: like who who's gonna Who's gonna lead us? 444 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 4: Then? 445 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: Like who's gonna lead us in tough, tough, tough times. 446 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: Who's gonna put the team above themselves when need be? 447 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 1: And you know you mentioned Dylan. I think Dylan's done 448 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: a great job of it. Marquise Buford is a senior 449 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: for US, two torn acls, all kinds of adversity, but 450 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: he's one of those rare guys in today's society. He's 451 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: not afraid to speak up, he's not afraid to talk 452 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: to people. Yet he has great relationships with him so 453 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: they know where he's coming from. I think that's I 454 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: think that's really important. You know, a young man Dane 455 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: Key transferring from Kentucky. He's very verse of me, very 456 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: very very accomplished, playably well in the SEC And you 457 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: know a lot of those guys could come in if 458 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: they wanted to him, be like, well I do it 459 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: this way and I do it that way. And just 460 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: the humility that Dane has had the presence he's had 461 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: to come in to lead the group. 462 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 4: We have a tremendously talented young group and. 463 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: Just come in with that veteran experience and it's something 464 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: as simple as like every day I go down, I 465 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: do this this silly little like sawn of cold plunge 466 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: challenge things I do and about four o'clock in the 467 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: afternoons and a couple of coaches will come with me 468 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: and Dane is usually there. And this, ye I know, 469 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 1: I just noticed every every week he had a couple 470 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: more receivers with him. And you know, walk in the 471 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: sauna one day there's fourteen receivers sitting in the saw, 472 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: which I was mad because I couldn't get my normal seat. 473 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: But I just think there's something too that, like you 474 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: can say you're a leader based upon your position, or 475 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: you can say that you're a leader because you're moving 476 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 1: people outside of their comfort zone them they're doing things 477 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: that they normally don't do. And so I see that 478 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: from Dane. I see him as being one of the 479 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: guys who's really come in and helped transform a position 480 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: that really needed that leadership. 481 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:29,959 Speaker 4: And I'm real grateful for him for that. 482 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 2: I agree, man, I'm so looking forward to watching that 483 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 2: young man play, and you know, just you know, with 484 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 2: Dana's new offense and just what could take place. I mean, 485 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 2: you know, I go back and you know, anybody that 486 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 2: can can average five hundred and sixty three point four 487 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 2: yards per game in an offense is mind blowing to me. 488 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: And the fact that now you have this you know, this, 489 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 2: this receiver staff, that's that's that's coming together, these kids 490 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 2: that really are buying in. You've got the quarterback in 491 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 2: a second year and really maturing. 492 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:05,239 Speaker 3: You know. 493 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 2: It seems like the things that you always preach, which 494 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 2: is the family of the team, right and that relationship aspect. 495 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 2: Can you describe kind of that for maybe, you know, 496 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 2: younger coaches, maybe some high school coaches out there that 497 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 2: are trying to figure out how to get these kids 498 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 2: that you know, it seems like as I evaluate high 499 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 2: school football or you know, younger football wherever I go, 500 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 2: whether I'm looking at IMG, you know, or I'm looking 501 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 2: at you know, some teeny little podunk football team in 502 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 2: the Panhandle in Florida. You know, can you describe why 503 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 2: you think it's so important to that that familial attitude, 504 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 2: that the family mentality in raising young men as well 505 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 2: as young players is so critical to developing great programs? 506 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think, you know, I think the 507 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: most powerful and most powerful words in the English language 508 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: is the word us. You know, It's it means that 509 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: you're part of something like it means you're part of 510 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: a family or part of a group or uh you know, 511 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: part of part of a team, that that that. 512 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 4: Leads to belonging. 513 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: I think as humans, we all want to belong we 514 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: all want to have we all want to have a 515 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: group that we protect and we know they'll protect us, 516 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: right so, so so we're trying to always build us. 517 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 4: We're always trying to build a team. 518 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: We're trying to build a place where guys can feel 519 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: safe to challenge themselves, to put themselves out there, because 520 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: I mean, if you're just playing for yourself in crucial moments, 521 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 1: like when when you could take that chance to go 522 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: make that play, they could win the game, but the 523 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: pressures on you, you might you might not do it. 524 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: You might be afraid of making a mistake and getting 525 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: crushed on social media and all the things that people 526 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: will say. But when you know that you're part of 527 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: a group, and you know that when you fall, they're 528 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: going to be there to catch you or pick you up. 529 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: When when you know that, like, hey, it's not about me, 530 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: it's about it's about my brothers and the brother hood 531 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: that we built, and then you're gonna they're gonna lay 532 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: it all on the line. And you know, we live 533 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: in a day and age now where you know, people 534 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: are your transfer, we're moving around. It's kind of like 535 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: everyone's their own corporation, their own brand, as they say. 536 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: And and there's some good things that come along with that, probably, 537 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: but you'll you'll never ever have that sense of, hey, 538 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: I'm a part of something, that sense of belonging and 539 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 1: the safety that comes with that. Yeah, you're you're missing out. 540 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: Like you know, the locker room is the greatest place 541 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: in the world, man. So we're just always trying to 542 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: build a great locker room with people who care about 543 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 1: each other. And you have to do one and sometimes 544 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,239 Speaker 1: to walk away from toxic people. Like toxic people kill that. 545 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: And so if you can walk away, you know, if 546 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: you're willing to do that, if you'll make tough decisions, 547 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: you protect the locker room, they'll come together and then 548 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: they'll they'll they'll do things that no one thought they 549 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: could do because they're doing it for each other. 550 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: That's beautiful. 551 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 2: Well coach again, man, I, I can't thank you enough 552 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 2: for taking time out today, uh, giving me a little 553 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 2: bit of your time. As you know, I'm one of 554 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 2: your biggest fans in the world. I just have so 555 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 2: much faith in who you are as a as a 556 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 2: leader and a coach, but more importantly as a man, 557 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 2: and how you influence these young men. 558 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 3: So good luck this season. 559 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,479 Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna get up 560 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 2: to the Penn State Nebraska game. 561 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna be torn and who to root for, 562 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 3: But right now I might. 563 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: I might actually lean towards you right now, though Pat 564 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 2: would kill me if you heard me say that. 565 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: So God, bless you. Thank you so much, coach. 566 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 4: I appreciate no, thank you, my friend. You're the best.