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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Matt Rhule on returning Nebraska to prominence & expectations for Year 2 | Big Noon Conversations

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Nebraska Head Coach Matt Rhule talks with FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt about his expectations for the Cornhuskers going into Year 2 of his tenure and the importance of bringing Husker nation back to the top of the sport. Coach Rhule speaks about why his team is ahead of schedule in the rebuild and ready for a big jump in 2024. He also discusses the impact of landing 5-star QB Dylan Raiola and what that signals to the rest of the teams in the sport. The two look at the importance of their rivalry game against Deion Sanders and Colorado in Week 2 and the challenges that matchup presents. Coach also reflects back on his time in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers and what that experience taught him as he decided to return to the college game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I expect us to have a really good team this year. I expect us to be a team that people don't want to play.

0:07.0

Most influential people in the sport talking about the sport globally.

0:13.0

On this episode,

0:15.0

on this episode of

0:16.0

big noon conversations, I talk with Matt Rule, the head coach of the Nebraska

0:26.5

Cornhuskers.

0:27.0

Matt Rule, head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

0:35.0

Thanks for joining us.

0:36.0

We appreciate it.

0:37.0

I appreciate your time.

0:39.0

It started off every conversation just like this.

0:42.0

What's the best part about being the head coach in Nebraska?

0:46.8

I'd say living in Nebraska.

0:48.7

You know, that might shock people across the country,

0:51.5

but it's probably, I've lived a lot of places probably the best group of people I've ever been around

0:57.7

Like a hardworking a population of people that you know love Nebraska football so if you're a football guy

1:03.2

I can't think of a better place to live in the country than in Nebraska. I mean all attest

1:07.2

to that I know I'm I played at Colorado but having to play Nebraska in

1:11.3

Lincoln twice during my career. I tell you what always shocked me so much

1:16.0

is, and this is as unique and weird a feeling as you'll get is that we had to warm up in front of 90,000 because they're in their

1:25.2

seats like an hour before the game. That's right. I'm warming up and I'm like this

1:29.0

this is wild. It created a really uneasy feeling having all those people watch the warm-ups.

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