Number three, welcome in the program. I'm Jim Rome. All right. We start the interview portion of the show. We're going to go back to back right now. If you're on hold, stay there. If not, again, the telephone number is toll free. 1-800-0-636-86. Coming up in about 20 minutes, Bob Costas. But right now, we are joined by the head football coach at Nebraska. He is entering his second season there.

He previously served as the head coach of Temple University, Baylor University, the Carolina Panthers in the NFL.

He was the Big 12 coach of the year in 2019.

The start of the season is right around the corner.

The Huskers are going to open up at home against U-TEP on August 31st.

Of course, I'm talking about Nebraska head coach. Matt Ruhl. Matt, awesome to have you back on the show.

I'm always up for talking Nebraska football. How you doing personally? And how does everything look to you both on and off the grass from your team right now?

Well, it's great to talk to you.

I just spread it off the practice field to get up here because, you know, I'm always excited

to talk to you.

Things are going well here.

I mean, we have what we think is a really good football team.

We're making a lot of progress.

We're excited to get this season rolling.

I'd love to hear it.

Matt Rulll joining us. I appreciate you making the run up there too, Matt.

So the last time you and I spoke, if I'm not mistaken, was right after you were hired in November of 22, we spent some of that conversation talking about the importance of culture building.

Do you feel like you've completely set the standard and the type of culture you're looking for, or maybe given the extreme turnover in the sport

right now, do you have to reset that standard in culture every single year?

You know, I think we've done a really good job, and the players have done a really good job

of sort of establishing our culture and the way that we want to do things. But I think you're

right. I think with the turnover, with the amount of guys coming in and sometimes leaving, every year you have to kind of have a refresh. You know, you, in what you need is you need some key players and some veteran guys in that locker room who welcome everyone with open arms. But at the same time, tell them, hey, this is how we do things here. This is what it means to be a Husker. And the first year is hard. You have to establish it. But I really like where we are right now.

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