This week on the Five Heart Podcast, it is officially game month. College football will be here be month’s end, when the Nebraska Cornhuskers open the 2024 campaign against the University of Texas - El Paso. 

As we get closer to gameday, we are delighted to discuss once and future Huskers. Adrian Martinez gets another shot at the NFL and Ndamukong Suh receives high marks about fifteen years too late. 

Dylan Raiola welcomed the #1 offensive lineman prospect to Lincoln over the weekend and asked Husker Nation to turn out. 

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, the team will break down the Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis. While we may hit some of the highlights of other coaches, our focus and emphasis will always be on the main man, Matt Rhule. 

While Rhule and a few players were out of town, the recruiting did not end. Kade Pietrzak committed this week, adding depth to the defensive line with the number one player in North Dakota. 

Technology has changed the sport immensely over the years, and it’s not ending. How are iPads and tablets on the sidelines changing the game? 

Our own (and yours) Aaron Rastovski will join us to discuss College Football 25 and the return of the greatest sports video game of all time. 

Blue Chips featured Nick Nolte, fantastic as a college hoops coach, and young Shaq & Penny Hardaway as recruits, but in 2024 is the booster Happy played by the late JT Walsh the real hero?

Join us for Blue Chips, a college basketball movie from 1994 starring Nick Nolte, Shaq O’Neal, Penny Hardaway, Ed O’Neill, Alfre Woodard, Bob Cousy, Mary McDonnell, JT Walsh, Bob Cousy, Matt Nover, Marques Johnson, Robert Wuhl, Bobby, Knight, Rick Pitino, George Raveling, Larry Bird, Dick Vitale…

You get the point.

Maybe like me, this one grew on you when you realized the movie wasn’t about the big game.

In 1994, everyone was still taught to believe a player who wanted anything more than a scholarship was a greedy leech with no love for the game…and we just never really asked where all the money did go.

This movie did help that conversation along, but it also had some fantastic performances - even by non-actors - some really funny scenes and, of course, probably the best movie basketball playing ever.

Scott Dochterman, who covers Iowa for the Athletic, will join me tonight and we will discuss the 2024 Iowa Hawkeyes football.

Brian Ferenz is gone as the offensive coordinator. Tim Lester has taken over the offense.

Will the offense get any better, or will it still be hamstrung by Captain Kirk?

Quarterback Cade McNamara returns. Iowa returns 18 returning starters, the most in the Power Four. But one player is missing, Cooper DeJean.

Will there be any drop off in the Iowa secondary because of Cooper DeJean?

Will there be any drop off in Iowa’s offense overall?

Can Iowa put an offense together that could get them into the college football playoff or win the Big Ten championship?

What about Scott?

Was Scott forced to cover Iowa as a young person and now he’s stuck there forever or did he make that by choice?

If by choice, what appealed to him about Iowa?

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I know, I know. This isn’t a fun headline. It wasn’t a fun game.

Well, it certainly started fun. Going up 14-0 after the first quarter, only to be outscored 24-3 the rest of the game.

Hoss and Greg discuss the game and grass fields, Braelon Allen going to the NFL, Jaylen Lloyd, turnovers, and more.

I’d like this description to be better but this isn’t my day and I have to get this episode out in a few minutes.

Who can forget Walter Matthau taking a paid position as the manager of a gaggle of foul-mouthed losers whom the league didn’t want? Tanner, Engleberg, Kelly Leak and Amanda taught many of us some prime and proper cursing in the bicentennial year which we still employ to this day.

And some more we definitely don’t.

And remember - Buttermaker’s not dead, he’s just drunk.

Tonight, I’ll be talking to my friend Ramzey Nazrallah. He is the publisher of Eleven Warriors.com, a very large Ohio State site, and he knows everything about the Ohio State Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes this year are poised to be a contender for the national title and win the Big Ten conference.

So let’s learn about the Buckeyes.

Who amongst the 18 five-star quarterbacks will be the starter?

Who are the great offensive players that we need to know about?

What does Ramsey think of the expanded new Big Ten and what is he most excited about?

Oregon joins the Big Ten, poised to begin at the top. What do Ohio State fans think of Oregon as a football team and as a potential new rival?

And what about Michigan????!!!! There’s a new coach, there’s a new Netflix documentary coming out about “SIGN STEALING”.

So much going on!

All these questions and more!!!!

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Well, things got weird. Jon didn’t have power tonight and largely no internet outside of his phone. So the audible was called and Greg did a one-man show tonight with the benefit of the comment section feeding him content.

Case in point - this hype video that Linda shared. Linda also had some R-rated thoughts for the guys watching this video.

This week on Overreaction Revisited, Hoss and Greg return to that fateful day, November 11, when the Maryland Terrapins invaded Memorial Stadium and left with a 13-10 win.

It may have been the most devastating loss of the season.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, went well for the Huskers. Three quarterbacks managed a measly 86 yards while throwing a combined four interceptions. Add in a lost fumble and it was not a good day for the offense.

Hell, two punts went further than ten receptions.

Javin Wright put on a performance, with eight tackles, a forced fumble, and an interception. But as we said a lot during 2023, the defense deserved better.

Thing get better. I mean, not in 2023, but 2024 sure looks promising.

GBR...always.

We are finally reaching that time of the year where you can stick your tongue out and taste college football in the air.

With 46 days left until kick off, the Huskers have lots going on, Fall Camp will soon begin, B1G media days start next week and oh yeah there was that one guy, you may have heard about, another Blue Chip, from the Texas recruiting pipeline, DB Bryson Webber.

Then there’s a video game that has come out and consumed all of the college football world. Minnie doesn’t know it yet, but she’s about to be exposed to gamers!

With all of college football aware that our beloved Cornhuskers are on the brink of something special, at 5 Heart, our dedicated listeners are the real super fans that help us dive even deeper into Husker Football.

Greg is on vacation this week but Jon and Minnie are excited to steer the Five Heart ship in his absence.

Please join Thursday night for what is sure to be a fun filled show.

What are ya? St-st-st-STOOPID? NCAA 2025 is in mid-release, so tonight we’ll examine the timeless classic of Bobby Boucher and friends playin’ that foosball.

Sorry for the slightly late notice, but here it is anyway! Join me at 8pm CST tonight for All the Right Movies and a review of The Waterboy which was a massive hit for Adam Sandler and company.

Reviled by critics and beloved by audiences, The Waterboy threw everything against the wall and most of it stuck leaving audiences with huge smiles. The characters ranged from the crazy weird like Farmer Fran and Colonel Sanders to real life sports figures such as Bill Cowher, Jimmy Johnson, Dan Patrick, Dan Fouts and Brent Musberger.