Another week and more commitments for the Nebraska football team. The Huskers added four commits (three high school, one transfer) in the past few days, so Michael Bruntz and Brian Christopherson discuss the additions and where they fit on Nebraska's roster. The guys also discuss the season-ending injury to Emmanuel Bandoumel and how it affects the conversation about Nebraska's season and the direction of the program going forward. Subscribe to the Husker247 YouTube Channel or wherever you get y...
Jan 25, 2023•51 min
Nebraska makes another transfer portal addition from Georgia, this time former five-star tight end Arik Gilbert. Michael Bruntz and Brian Christopherson break down what the addition means for the Huskers, Nebraska's tight end picture in 2023 and what Gilbert brings to the table. The guys also preview another big recruiting weekend for Matt Rhule and his staff and discuss Nebraska basketball's win over Ohio State and what the road forward looks like with Juwan Gary. To learn more about listener d...
Jan 20, 2023•48 min
Husker247's Brian Christopherson and Michael Bruntz break down a newsy few days in the transfer portal that saw the Huskers add Georgia transfer MJ Sherman, lose Stanford transfer Walter Rouse and retain two former players out of the portal to help add depth to the wide receiver spot. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 17, 2023•45 min
Nebraska landed a big offensive tackle in Walter Rouse and isn’t yet done with the transfer portal. Mike Schaefer and Michael Bruntz get together to discuss what the Huskers are cooking up and where things seem to be headed to close out the class. First though Bruntz walks through why Rouse is a big addition and what it means for all parts of Nebraska’s line. Then the duo discuss if his absence this upcoming spring while rehabbing a shoulder injury matters much. From there the two talk about ini...
Jan 13, 2023•38 min
Nebraska had a busy weekend of official visits from transfer portal recruits and the basketball team went up to Minnesota and came back with a victory. The Husker247 Podcast breaks both of these down in its latest episode. Things kick off with the commitment of Virginia wide receiver Billy Kemp, who announced for the Huskers on Monday night. The trio of Michael Bruntz, Brian Christopherson and Mike Schaefer discuss the commitment and how Kemp fits, what reasonable expectations are and more. Disc...
Jan 10, 2023•42 min
The Husker247 Podcast welcomes you into a new year with a new podcast covering everything from Nebraska’s new additions to the 2023 class to Jim Harbaugh’s clock management in the college football playoff. Here’s how things unfold as the guys discuss the college football playoff games and what stood out during the bowl action this season. Brian Christopherson makes an impassioned plea for people to consider their timeout strategies. Meanwhile Michael Bruntz casually mentions Harbaugh as the next...
Jan 05, 2023•51 min
The Husker247 trio gathered two days after Christmas to discuss the gift the transfer portal gave the Huskers in center Ben Scott, discuss Matt Rhule’s second major media appearance, Nebraska’s 2023 current signing class and a little hoops talk with Iowa coming to town. How did the Huskers land Scott? More importantly the group discusses what it means and the value of locking down the center position potentially for each of the next two seasons. Nebraska also landed a critical transfer portal ad...
Dec 27, 2022•49 min
It’s National Signing Day and Nebraska is busy as the Huskers have things rolling for Matt Rhule in his first recruiting cycle. Husker247’s Michael Bruntz and Mike Schaefer break it all down on the latest podcast. The two start with a conversation about where the class stands and the new additions for the Huskers on Wednesday, including getting a commitment from Malachi Coleman. The two also discuss the effort Nebraska’s staff put into keeping players from the state home and discuss why it’s imp...
Dec 21, 2022•28 min
The Husker247 Wheel of Topics makes its big return in this weeks podcast. We load up the wheel with topics and give it a spin to answer listener questions about Nebraska football, Matt Rhule’s first few weeks on the job, Husker recruiting and even some Husker History what-ifs. Will Nebraska take a high school quarterback? What has been most impressive about Matt Rhule’s staff? Why Rhule will and won’t work in Lincoln and the most overrated holiday season treat. Listen in and don’t forget to subs...
Dec 15, 2022•49 min
The Husker247 Podcast started on a somber note on Tuesday as the the group remembered Mike Leach for his unique blend of personality and air raid football. The long time college football coach faced Nebraska six times in his career and appeared on the radio despite never coaching in Lincoln. Following the look back on Leach’s legacy the podcast shifts to conversations about Nebraska’s recruiting efforts, its latest commitments and the big visit weekend that featured a number of commits and targe...
Dec 13, 2022•45 min
It’s a big recruiting edition of the Husker247 podcast as the first half of the episode features Mike Schaefer and Michael Bruntz, before 247Sports analyst Andrew Ivins joins to talk about Matt Rhule’s recruiting, new commit Brice Turner and several of Nebraska’s weekend visitors. Despite the heavy recruiting talk the podcast actually starts with Tony White as Nebraska’s next defensive coordinator. Bruntz and Schaefer run through his background, why the 3-3-5 intrigues them, which positions the ...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 4 min
It’s been quite a week at Nebraska with coaches getting on the road, the transfer portal popping and Matt Rhule still needing to put together his full staff. The Husker247 crew assembled to discuss all of these things, but started with Brice Turner, Nebraska’s newest commitment and how he came to join the class and why he represents the kind of players the Huskers could load up on to finish things out in 2023. From there the conversation gets into in-state recruiting and what Rhule has been doin...
Dec 07, 2022•58 min
The full group gathered for a podcast for the first time since Nebraska won at Iowa, Matt Rhule was hired and parts of the new coaching staff came together, Discussion centered on Nebraska’s new assistants with conversations largely focused on new offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield, his experience and what he can bring to the next Huskers offense. At that point conversation turned to what the Huskers have to go add to finish out the staff and a little speculation as to who those people cou...
Dec 01, 2022•45 min
It’s a new era of Nebraska football with a new face and voice to go along with it. On Monday the Nebraska Cornhuskers officially introduced Matt Rhule as the new head coach of the football program. On this edition of the Husker247 Podcast cohosts Mike Schaefer and Brian Christopherson break down the opening press conference, offer takeaways from what they heard on Monday, provided thoughts on Rhule’s first appearance and more. The conversation largely focuses on Rhule, his style, his plans and w...
Nov 29, 2022•40 min
Husker247 writers Mike Schaefer and Michael Bruntz discuss Nebraska's new head coach Matt Rhule after he was named to the position on Saturday morning. How did we get here? What's next for Rhule and what does it mean for the Huskers? Those questions and more are answered as the Rhule era in Lincoln is about to get under way. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.co...
Nov 26, 2022•18 min
The week of Thanksgiving is a mess. To make it simple Husker247 has recorded a podcast combining all the banter and chatter you’ve come to expect from the Husker247 Podcast with the fly-by-night analysis and insane predictions the come from the Husker247 HypeCast. Please enjoy the first ever ComboCast! Things start, after Mike Schaefer gets everyone nice and hyped, with a look back at the loss to Wisconsin. What worked. What didn’t. Who stood out? And where do things sit as the Huskers head into...
Nov 22, 2022•52 min
This week on the Sunday Side Session good friend Josh Peterson joins Mike SChaefer to walk through Nebraska’s latest second half collapse and its ninth straight loss to Wisconsin. The two discuss the game and what they saw, Nebraska’s inability to close games and if the Huskers would benefit from simply moving on from everything and try to start as fresh as possible. There’s also discussion about Nebraska’s next coach and much more. Be sure to subscribe to Husker247 Podcast wherever you listen t...
Nov 20, 2022•42 min
Husker247 host Mike Schaefer is joined by Mike Sautter of NebPreps to break down the upcoming slate of high school championship games being played at Memorial Stadium on Monday. The two run through all six matchups, stand out players, recruits having good seasons and more. They were work backwards starting with the D2 title game and finishing with Class A. Be sure to subscribe to Husker247 Podcast wherever you listen to have episodes downloaded automatically to your device. To learn more about l...
Nov 20, 2022•45 min
It’s time to get hyped as Nebraska hosts Wisconsin in the interim coaches battle featuring Mickey Joseph for the Huskers and Jim Leonhard for the Badgers. Popular assistants have become the head coach and the results for both are fairly uneven. The HypeCast welcomes in Dirk Chatelain to the conversation and he joins Michael Bruntz, Brian Christopherson and Mike Schaefer to discuss the Wisconsin game. Conversation starts on offense where once again the Huskers enter a game with a murky outlook at...
Nov 17, 2022•37 min
The Husker247 trio got together on Tuesday morning to discuss Nebraska football, the coaching search and how to best run a sports bar. Seriously Michael Bruntz and Brian Christopherson had a bad experience at one in Michigan and have tips to offer to those in the sports bar hospitality game. Conversation picks back up with Nebraska football as things shift to the Michigan game and the guys give what takeaways they have coming out of the 34-3 loss and a look ahead to Wisconsin with what everyone ...
Nov 15, 2022•48 min
Nebraska football played Michigan on Saturday and fell in a 34-3 game that probably wasn’t as far apart as the score indicated but not as close either. Gary Sharp joined Mike Schaefer to break the game down and discuss how the Huskers got to this point, if Michigan was a markedly different team than 2021 where the Huskers hung close and, of course, a conversation about the quarterback decision and quarterback play. Eventually conversation shifted to what things look like going forward, who the n...
Nov 13, 2022•43 min
Nebraska heads to Michigan on Friday and the Husker247 crew has the coverage you want for a game that certainly looked more interesting before the season started. 1620 The Zone host Josh Peterson joined the group to chat about the game and the conversation started with quarterback play and who the Huskers might put out there between Chubba Purdy and Logan Smothers. From there it was discussed both how the Huskers can move the ball and if Trey Palmer or Anthony Grant can have a bigger game agains...
Nov 10, 2022•34 min
The Husker247 Podcast covered a lot of ground on Tuesday. Things begin with some early banter about where The Big House ranks among stadiums Brian Christopherson and Michael Bruntz have been to followed by some reminiscing about games played there. Eventually someone points out this podcast needs to go somewhere and discussion morphs to Nebraska’s quarterback situation. What happened at Minnesota and are the Huskers making any changes? What about a little coaching chatter? Both Bruntz and Christ...
Nov 08, 2022•59 min
This week on the Sunday Side Session Sam McKewon form the Omaha World-Herald joins Mike Schaefer to discuss Nebraska’s latest frustrating loss. As expected the conversation starts at quarterback where the two dissect what led to Nebraska choosing Chubba Purdy before Saturday and then the in-game decisions that resulted in sticking with the backup, even after it was well apparent he struggled when things went off script. From there McKewon offers an analysis of Mark Whipple and Nebraska’s overall...
Nov 06, 2022•31 min
The Husker247 HypeCast returned with Gary Sharp from 1620 the Zone and started with a brief summation of the weird recent history between Nebraska and Minnesota, as the two teams have played some strange and notable games in recent seasons. From there Sharp talked about his expectations for Nebraska football this weekend in a similar kind of game as the one the Huskers lost to Illinois last Saturday. Michael Bruntz discussed the merits of getting Anthony Grant going in the running game and if Al...
Nov 04, 2022•30 min
Plenty to talk about and the Husker247 Podcast managed to cover a big chunk of it in one big swoop. On this episode nearly everything was covered. The talk actually starts with a brief couple minute discussion about Nebraska basketball and where things sit before diving into the Illinois game, what happened the second half, how the Huskers could approach the forthcoming week and more. And before moving off the game the Husker247 crew chatted about what this all means for Trey Palmer and the work...
Nov 01, 2022•44 min
Another Sunday. Another conversation about a Nebraska team that failed to seize an opportunity right in front of it. On Saturday for almost a half the Huskers were in position to be holding a lead and threatening, maybe, to even push it to a two score lead against a ranked team. After forcing a three-and-out and with good field position the Huskers had the perfect play. And it was dropped. Two plays later the game flipped. Two plays after that the score flipped. Thank you for playing. What else ...
Oct 30, 2022•38 min
Hopefully everyone enjoyed another brief intermission because that’s the last time this season Nebraska won’t be playing on a Saturday. And this Saturday the stage is set for the Huskers to duke it out with Illinois, the ranked team in the drivers seat for the Big Ten West, just two years removed from a coaching change. Can Nebraska play spoiler? Can the Huskers slow down Chase Brown? Are we hyped yet? This HypeCast features a regular guest in Kevin Sjuts, who reprises his role as the guy we go ...
Oct 27, 2022•38 min
In this week's episode, the guys break down the commitment of 4-star athlete Malachi Coleman and what it means for the future of the Huskers. Later, the guys preview the matchup with Illinois and discuss the start of the Nebraska basketball season. Listen in. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 25, 2022•35 min
On Saturday Nebraska added Malachi Coleman to its 2023 recruiting efforts, the first commitment for the team since the season started and an important player to keep home. Allen Trieu joins Mike Schaefer to talk about Coleman’s decision, Nebraska’s 2023 class and where things sit for the Huskers with other recruits. Conversation spills over a bit to Carter Nelson, a 2024 tight end that’s starting to receive national buzz and 2025 prospects Christian Jones and Tyson Terry. Be sure to subscribe to...
Oct 23, 2022•11 min
