GREG RETURNS! Greg joins me and Todd for an afternoon discussion about college football season. THIS college football season, which is quickly coming upon us! IT IS TIME TO START DRINKING THE KOOL AID YOU SUNSABITCHES. You can be all... “I’ll wait and see... ” or “They need to show me something...” Or you can just give it up and get on this boat, that’s leaving the harbor in less than 30 days. It might sink 200 feet offshore when we hit the Illinois game, but it might be the greatest journey you’ve been on in a while. I’d recommend you get on the boat, you doubting candy ass. Either way, it’s going to be a fun adventure. Maybe fighting for your life while sharks circle isn’t your way of defining fun, but it’s better than hiding under your bed waiting for the day they tell you you’re bound for the rest home for the rest of your days. IT HAS OCCURRED TO ME This might be the funnest football season we’ve seen in quite a while. Can you imagine what it will be like watching Texas and Oklahoma go through what might be their final season in the Big 12? Do you think Texas will get an extra second? Do you think they’ll get any call in their favor? Do you think they could go 0-however many Big 12 games they play? Oklahoma is poised to be a playoff contender. Do you think Bob Bowlsby really wants to give them a Big 12 trophy? Or do you think they might get robbed of a couple victories that ruins their playoff chances? Oh, my friends. This could be a blast. Then there’s Nebraska. So many questions. Who’s the starting running back? Who’s the backup quarterback? Will Omar Manning contribute this season? Will we find a pass rusher? And then, Todd teaches us a new song. It’s kind of.... weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Five Heart Podcast Episode 235: It’s Fun Not Being in the Big XII

This is a brand new Five Heart Podcast, with Jon Johnston and Todd Wolverton. There was plenty of scuttlebutt this week as Texas and Oklahoma announced their intentions to leave the conference they love to go to “greener pastures.” And in this case, it’s all about the money. I mean, it was a decade ago for Nebraska, too, but we also hate Texas. It’s odd to me that two teams that hate each other as much as they do would be in cahoots to abandon the Big XII together, hand in hand, skipping on down to the SEC. Also, it was Big Ten Media Days. And things were said. That’s about it. And from the feedback we saw on social media this week, you all are tired of hearing talk and are anxious to see improvement on the field (we are too, but we’re contractually obligated to cover B10 Media Days). Meanwhile, hang in there. We’re getting closer every day. GBR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 234: OU/Texas, Big Ten Media Days

Todd and I get together for another episode of the Five Heart Podcast! It’s a grand old time as we discuss the latest monumental hire of Rob Childress as director of player development for the Nebraska baseball program. Then there’s this other hire that happened this week as Trev Alberts is Nebraska’s athletic director. Neither Todd nor I are that impressed with this hire. We discuss that. KEEP IN MIND - that just because neither of us are really positive on this hire that we want Mr. Alberts to fail. I speak for myself when I say that I hope he’s incredibly successful to the point that my questioning of this hire is ridiculed for ages to come. We also wonder if Nebraska’s media has asked Mr. Alberts about his dismissal of the UNO Wrestling program and given him a chance to clear the air. Enjoy the podcast! Give us some feedback! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 234: A Monumental Hire - Rob Childress. Trev Albert And Texas’ Preferential Treatment From Our Old Buddy Greg Burks

It’s been a couple months since the last episode of The Counter Bootleg Podcast. In the 12th episode I quickly discuss who I wanted as Athletic Director. Spoiler alert - Trev Alberts was not my first pick. Then I went over my initial reaction to the news that Trev Alberts would be the new athletic director at Nebraska. As I say in the podcast my immediate reaction was, “OH, COME ON!.” After several hours of thinking about the hire the excitement dissipated and I reevaluated my initial reactions. If you listen to the podcast I bet you will find that you probably also had a lot of the same thoughts one way or the other. I still don’t know where I land on the decision but regardless he’s the one they picked and now all I can do is hope he is successful. Please give it a listen! Please subscribe and download the podcast. Leave a review and let me know what you think! If there’s a football topic that you would like me to comment on for less than 10 minutes then let me know. I appreciate your time. You can find me on twitter @nmchugh85 Also you can contact me through Cornnation.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Counter Bootleg - Episode 12: Not Quite Sold On Trev Alberts...Yet

Nebraska hires Trev Alberts as the new athletic director. I am not happy with this. I make that pretty clear in this video, done out in the woods so I could walk the anger out of me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Corn Nation Reaction: Instant Reaction to Nebraska Hiring Trev Alberts As Athletic Director

In case you missed it yesterday, the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ 2021-2022 men’s basketball non-conference schedule was released in full. With that in mind, Patrick and Kevin got together to look ahead at how it shakes out. Are there great games on it? Are we excited about some? Are we constructively critical of other aspects? Do we have our usual energy, funny jokes, witty banter, and unique perspectives you crave if a regular listener? You’ll have to listen to the latest episode to find out! Please Subscribe! Be sure to download and subscribe to our podcast on whatever platform you prefer (that way you won’t miss next week’s very special episode), and you’ll also get all of the other great, but not quite as great, Corn Nation Radio podcasts as well. Finally, please follow us on twitter for all the latest Nebrasketball and Husker action. Follow us on Twitter at @Bangs&Dags Follow Kevin on Twitter at @SpartyOnHuskers Follow Patrick on Twitter at @PatrickGerhart Leave a Review! You could go out on the Apple podcast app and leave a review for us as well or send us feedback by making a comment on this article. Please Listen And Share! If you don’t feel like subscribing, you can listen in the player below. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Of Bangarangs and Daggers Episode 69: Looking at the Nebraska Huskers’ Non-Conference Schedule

It’s a state law, a media regulation, that every offseason, typically in May or June, that we must discuss the end of the Nebraska football sellout streak. Therefore, here is your 2021 Nebraska Football Sellout Streak might end video. It’s not looking that good right now, after talking to some people who buy season tickets. There are a lot of reasons for that, and I try to cover them in the video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Corn Nation Reacts: Will The Nebraska Sellout Streak End?

It’s another episode of the Five Heart Podcast! Jon and Todd get together and discuss the events of the week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 233: NIL, Bill Moos, and Will Bolt

Name, Image, and Likeness - NIL - goes into effect TODAY. This is one of the biggest developments in college athletics, EVER. CAPITAL LETTERS EVERYWHERE! I got the chance to interview Boost Mobile’s CEO Stephen Stokols about NIL. Boost Mobile is sponsoring Hanna and Haley Cavinder, twin guards on the Fresno State women’s basketball team. The Cavinder twins have one of the biggest social media followings of any current NCAA athletes as between them, they have over 5 million total followers across Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.  NIL will be interesting because it may benefit small business more than it will massive companies like Verizon, Nike, etc. College athletics is very regional in nature. A local bakery shop could get more mileage out of sponsoring a local college basketball player because that player wouldn’t even show up on a large company’s radar. We talk about some of these issues in the interview. Mr. Stokols talks very fast. There is a LOT going on, and there will be an explosion of announcements about this over the next few days. One point of confusion. We kind of go back and forth about today or tomorrow. I say “Today” because the content wouldn’t be released until Thursday. He says “tomorrow” because he thinks I’m putting something out immediately. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jon’s Postlife Crisis: Stephen Stokols, CEO Of Boost Mobile Talks NIL

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, Greg is back and Jon feels like shit. So that’s what you have in store for you today. We talk about Adrian Martinez and Scott Frost’s legacies being intertwined and if it’s a bad idea for coaches to go back home at some point in their careers. Also, the CWS, and the Supreme Court decision that will likely affect the NCAA at some point in the next eighty years. Tell your friends. Be watching for the video at some point this weekend, maybe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 232: Are We Apathetic?

Heyoooooooo! Todd and I get together for another episode of the Five Heart Podcast! This episode we discuss: New recruits - Quarterback Richard Torres and kicker Josh Jasek The Christian McCaffrey tweet taking a shot at Scott Frost as shown below The Big Red Blitz tour and the recruiting class numbers How much Todd hates exploitation Name Image and Likeness as it pertains to Nebraska Regarding the McCaffery Tweets: Mitch Sherman started it when he tweeted the bit below. Then Luke’s overachieving brother took at shot at Scott Frost when Frost was talking about bad advice, not Luke McCaffrey. I got in on it with a really mean tweet, honestly, because I thought Christian McAffrey’s tweet was stupid. STUPID. Dylan McCaffrey transferred from Michigan to Northern Colorado to play football. Luke McCaffrey went from Nebraska to Louisville to Rice, a place known for great pitching, or at least it used to be. Sensitive much, McCaffrey brothers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 231: New Recruits, Big Red Blitz, The McCaffrey Tweet, and NILBRASKA

Todd and Keith Yaple join me as we celebrate, bitch, and moan about Nebraska’s loss to Arkansas in the regional final. We discuss: Nebraska’s loss to Arkansas The Strikezone How will Arkansas be treated if they get to Omaha A quick run around look at other regionals The Strikezone Kevin Kopps and the 743,000 pitches he threw Arkansas’ complete disrespect toward Mojo Hagge and his family What about pitchers for next season? It was a great season for Nebraska baseball. Now it’s over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 230: Nebraska Baseball’s Loss to Arkansas - An Overreaction

Many of you likely remember former Nebraska Cornhuskers beat writer Christopher Heady from his days with the Omaha World Herald. The secret Kansan spy spent a number of years following the inside action at the Hendrix Training Complex and Pinnacle Bank Arena during the end of the Tim Miles era and start of the Fred Hoiberg era. That unique perspective gave him an interesting look at how two very different coaching era were in Lincoln. Luckily for our listeners, Chris was generous enough to give us his time and talk about some of the contrasts between the coaching regimes and the overall picture of where basketball stands in his mind among the Husker fanbase. Did the athletic administration care about basketball before Hoiberg? Did fans? Do facilities actually matter? What about after Hoiberg’s hire? How significant was the hiring by Nebraska in contrast to previous hires or even at other Power Six programs? How much did support from the athletic administration change overnight? What went wrong in the first two seasons and where are things heading from here? Also, is Ohio State a “basketball school”? What about Michigan? If you haven’t gotten the picture by now, this was an all encompassing episode and listeners won’t want to miss a second of it! Thanks again to our special guest Chris Heady, and we hope you enjoy this week’s episode. Please Subscribe! Be sure to download and subscribe to our podcast on whatever platform you prefer (that way you won’t miss next week’s very special episode), and you’ll also get all of the other great, but not quite as great, Corn Nation Radio podcasts as well. Finally, please follow us on twitter for all the latest Nebrasketball and Husker action. Follow us on Twitter at @Bangs&Dags Follow Kevin on Twitter at @SpartyOnHuskers Follow Chris on Twitter at @heady_chris Leave a Review! You could go out on the Apple podcast app and leave a review for us as well or send us feedback by making a comment on this article. Please Listen And Share! If you don’t feel like subscribing, you can listen in the player below. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Of Bangarangs and Daggers Episode 68: Putting Nebrasketball in Perspective with Chris Heady

Heyoooo. Todd leads the Five Heart podcast this week. I join him. We talk for a bit about the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and what changes it may bring. If you think we should stick to sports, sorry, not sorry. Todd reveals that an athlete he coached was inducted into the Iowa Hall of Fame recently. That is pretty cool. Todd and I discuss: Nebraska baseball winning the Big Ten conference after being picked eighth. Why were they picked eighth? How far can they go in the NCAA? Will they beat Michigan? The tweet below has since been deleted. Here’s a partial screenshot. The tweet is regarding that Kevin Warren thought the letter last year to the Big Ten from Ohio State parents about canceling football season was made up. This leads us to a discussion as to whether or not Warren should keep his job. Are we being fair to him? Wasn’t it hard to lead during this pandemic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 229: Husker Baseball Huzzah And Should Kevin Warren Keep His Job?

Todd leads the podcast because he does a GREAT INTO. He’s joined by Jon Damn Johnston and Nate McHugh. We have a grand time discussing the following subjects: 100 Days Til Football season Ronald Thompkins and the transfer portal - How many players transferred under Tom Osborne? The Battle for NU in 2022 Will Take Place in Ireland - Would you go? Nebraska baseball - where they’re at and the wild two weeks left Lexi Sun returns for another season. She is the closest thing to an Amazon goddess that exists - how much could she make if NIL gets enacted within the next year? Then, for a stupid offseason topic, we discuss the following: And what wild beasts do Americans think they themselves can take on? You have to have a plan. I could kill a grizzly bear. I reveal my plan. We want to hear your stupid offseason topics! Give us some to discuss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five Heart Podcast Episode 228: Ireland, Baseball, Lexi Sun And A Stupid Offseason Topic

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