Connor Krumme

UNL ‘28 Journalist, 93.7 the Ticket

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"Khalil Taylor, 4 🌟receiver, chooses Nebraska over Penn State."

"It was a significant victory... number 4 in Pennsylvania gets your attention... number 4 player in Pennsylvania's probably pretty good."

"Been a lot of NFL players come out of that state."

Early Break reacts to 4 🌟WR, Kahlil Taylor, committing to Nebraska over Penn State yesterday. Taylor is the 94th overall recruit in the 2027 class and the 17th overall receiver.

📸's via On3, Trib HSSN and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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"How much of Nebraska's potential success relies on (Anthony) Colandrea's ability to RUN the football? If the offense is just, 'breakdown, he's just gonna take off and go'. That works to only a certain extent right?"

"What (that) usually does is it just beats the bad teams worse and you really struggle against better teams. The one that bothers you the most is the one that can make plays with his feet when the coaching's over. "

"Now, Colandrea will be able to do that. What I'm interested in with Colandrea is: What kind of runner is he? Is he just a Fran Tarkenton, escape the pass rush guy, or is he a real runner? Is he gonna get to a linebacker, juke him, stiff arm him and run by him?"

Early Break reacts to an article written by Sam McKewon yesterday referring to Nebraska's potential success via explosive plays with Anthony Colandrea for the upcoming 2026 season.

📸's courtesy Sports Illustrated, On3 and 247
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"He (Shawn Eichorst) took over at Nebraska when Bo Pelini was winning 9-10 games..."

"I wonder if it's a similar situation, that they brought him here to fire (Luke) Fickell... the idea was to hire the anti-Bo (Mike Riley at Nebraska). Now is the idea to hire the anti-Fickell?"

What does the "Anti-Fickell" look like for Wisconsin AD, Shawn Eichorst, if he was indeed hired for the same reason he was at Nebraska, to fire the head football coach?

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If you were watching a game with the CFB 150 patch you’re probably watching an instant classic

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"He can spin it... I don't miss that... 'my character was enhanced', from the lousy job I did at Nebraska... he's a good administrator."

"He's a politician."

"Very much so."

@937JakeSorensen and @steven_sipple react to Shawn Eichorst's reflection on his time at Nebraska on Early Break.

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"Everyone in Huskerland is banging on Shawn Eichorst... if the firing of Bo (Pelini) was so wrong, why was Youngstown his only coaching gig?"

"Youngstown wasn't his (Bo Pelini's) only gig, he had some opportunities. There was one opportunity at a Big 12 school and him and the basketball coach there were on the phone for about 3 or 4 hours trying to talk him into it.
Bo made a decision that was best for his family... that's the same thing with Kirk (Ferentz). Kirk got offered Notre Dame before Brian Kelly...
When I got to Nebraska, Bo dropped me off at the Cornhusker Marriott and said, 'Hey, don't buy a house we might be going to Penn State.' (In 2011)...
I know North Carolina came after him, Arkansas, Miami... he had opportunities to be a D coordinator in the NFL..."

Former Nebraska and Iowa Defensive Line Coach, @CoachKaz_NU, debunks the theory that Bo Pelini couldn't get a better job than Youngstown State after being fired at Nebraska.

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ICYMI: We celebrated @steven_sipple's 60th birthday on Early Break today, and several called or visited to wish Sip a happy one!
-@RhondaRevelle
-@Coach_Manning
-@jim_pillen
-@derrickpearson
-@ParkerJGabriel
-@Chris_Basnett79

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"We're talking about the most watched college football teams in 2025. 8 of the top 10 teams are from the SEC... Why does the SEC dominate viewership to that level?"

"The population trends are incredibly beneficial for the Southeastern Conference... but also, there's not the same amount of competition with NFL teams...
Secondly, the SEC and Big Ten have different media strategies. The SEC is all in with Disney/ESPN, so when you turn on ABC at 11 a.m. CT, you can just leave the channel on ABC, and you're gonna get an SEC game through the evening broadcast.
The Big Ten has more of an NFL-like model, where you have FOX for the first window and you've got the CBS window and you've got the NBC window, and what our research shows (is) that's been a good strategy for us so far...
And, the last point I'd make: There's incredible depth in the SEC..."

SEC Associate Commissioner, @GarthGlissman, talked about some of the reasons the SEC dominates TV ratings every year as opposed to the Big Ten on Early Break yesterday.

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"We go up to Minnesota, Mike Riley's gonna get fired... we're gonna take Sipple out to a dinner that's not 'Amigos' after the game... Sipple gets word (that) they're thinking about firing Mike Riley... so we drive through 'Wendy's', and @Chris_Basnett79 is driving. And Sipple chokes on a chicken bone. Bas looks in the rearview mirror and says with a contempt, 'just die man.'"

On Early Break this morning while calling in for Sip's birthday, @ParkerJGabriel, shares his favorite @steven_sipple story.

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On Early Break @derrickpearson joined the stool in studio to give @steven_sipple some boxing gear for his birthday. It went about how you would expect...

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SEC Associate Commissioner, @GarthGlissman, on the SEC's opposition to the Big Ten's 24-team playoff proposal:

"One of the beauties of college football is the fabric of the regular season, every Saturday means something... if you expand to 24... regular season games will not mean as much...
What happens towards the end of an NFL regular season? You see teams resting guys. And I don't think it's a stretch to say that the same would happen in college football if you get to a 24 team playoff...
Some of the most iconic traditional rivalries happen on the last play date of the regular season. Can you imagine a scenario (Michigan and Ohio State) and they're resting their starting QB?"

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SEC Associate Commissioner, @GarthGlissman, on the reasoning behind a push for postseason expansion in college football and basketball:

"The push to expand the postseason is about relieving the pressure on the campus level. Because it allows coaches and administrators to point to some type of objective success and say, 'we had a successful season', your investment in our roster, therefore, was worth it."

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SEC Associate AD, @GarthGlissman, on the "impasse" between the Big Ten and the SEC:

"Calling it an impasse I think is in many ways a media-driven characterization. I was talking to one of my counterparts at the Big Ten just yesterday! And he calls and he wants to talk shop on a couple matters. So we have this healthy working relationship...
I view the SEC/Big Ten rivalry as good for college sports... I think it makes for a great narrative."

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SEC Associate Commissioner, @GarthGlissman, on the confidence from the Southeastern Conference despite three straight Big Ten national titles.

"The results speak for themselves, I think the SEC still, we have a lot of confidence that we're going to compete at the highest levels... I look at the SEC this year in football, I think there's going to be really good QB play. There's 6 or 7 elite QBs in the SEC this year...
The SEC standard is national championships, and of course it's bothersome when you don't meet your own standard."

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SEC Associate Commissioner, @GarthGlissman, on the reasoning behind expanding the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament to 76 teams:

"You look throughout history, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has incrementally expanded. Recent expansion has not caught up with the size of the expansion of division 1 membership...
So on a percentage basis, we were due for expansion... then... it will mean more access. On an average year, we think the SEC will get one more team in the men's basketball tournament, I think the same is probably true for the Big Ten...
And then the next argument that fans go to is, 'well those teams don't deserve to be in.' In response to that I would cite some recent historical precedent. In the SEC in the last two years, we have had two teams go sub .500 in SEC play make the Sweet 16."

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Early Break reacts to Wisconsin's hiring of former Nebraska AD, Shawn Eichorst:

"He didn't have a good tenure (at Nebraska). He fired Bo Pelini and then he hired Mike Riley... Eichorst would be appealing (though) to a university I think because he's NOT an alpha... He's gonna ruffle feathers with probably a degree of incompetence...

there was a point where Bo was really tense on a Saturday morning and he said, 'I can't get a hold of Eichorst... I have a staff meeting and the guys wonder, 'did you talk to Eichorst', and I gotta tell them no because he doesn't talk to me.'...
What does that suggest to a head coach? You're probably in trouble."

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"Nebraska is 6-22 in November since 2018 (excluding 2020)... I know they're (Iowa) good in November... you can't just say, 'oh because they're overly talented', not necessarily. They have some sort of formula that they're good in November. I mean, they haven't had great offensive lines."

Yesterday, Early Break addressed the chilling statistic that Nebraska is 6-22 in November since 2018 (2020 not included), and that the Huskers may need to look to their neighbors to the East for how to succeed in the month that has plagued the Big Red.

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BREAKING: LeBron James will continue his NBA career for the 2026-27 season and has informed the Los Angeles Lakers that the franchise can move on without him because he will play elsewhere, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN.

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Is FOX's Big Noon Kickoff to blame for the SEC's dominance in the TV ratings?

"It doesn't help, your best game every week is at 11 a.m. It's 11 a.m. here, it's 9 a.m. on the West Coast."

"Ohio State Texas. Oh (it's at), 9 in LA... It's on during breakfast at the Hampton Inn."

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"He (James Franklin) felt 'blindsided' by his firing... I thought we agreed that he had kind of run his course. He was arguing with fans coming off of the fields..."

"It would have blindsided you, things had turned awful, they had just lost to a really bad UCLA team, and a Northwestern team at home... it was toxic."

Early Break reacts to James Franklin's remarks on the @3xOptionShow that he was "blindsided" by his firing at Penn State.

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