Join us on Corn Nation’s You Tube channel tonight for Husker Heat as we review a disappointing weekend in Ann Arbor, talk a little Iowa doubleheader as that will likely be winding up during the show and look ahead to this weekend where things don’t get any easier. Northwestern currently sits a 1⁄2 game in front of Michigan for 1st place in the Big 10, a spot they’ve occupied for most of the last few years. We’ll let you know who to watch out for.

Mitch Sherman of The Athletic will join me tonight. There is a lot to ask of Mr. Sherman. He’s been places. He’s seen things. Like Nebraska football practice. Dylan Raiola and Danny Kaelin in action, one presumes. I think the number one question I want to ask him is, disregarding the players, what do you think is the biggest difference between last year and this year that you’ve seen and the little bit that you’ve had of being around the team? He has to talk a little bit about Dylan Raiola and the quarterbacks. Obviously the biggest thing is the quarterbacks. Matt Rule, in his role as a CEO type coach, what is he like at practice? Does he really let the coaches coach the players? Does he intervene like a benevolent dictator? Or does he watch from afar? Is that the kind of coach Matt Rule is? Is he really hands-on? Is he hands-on with his assistants? How does he lead?

This week on the show, the Panel discusses the wide receiver room.  Jaylen Lloyd. Malachi Coleman. Alex Bullock. Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda. Jahmal Banks.  While there’s a fair amount of depth behind this quintet, there’s not a lot of experience. So who steps up? Who is ready to go?  Nebraska returns over 75% of production from last year. How does that fit in with Matt Rhule’s philosophy?  Two Big Ten schools had their spring games this past weekend. What took place in Columbus and West Lafayette? How many people attended? Does spring game attendance matter?  And finally, RedditCFB came across the “leaked” super league proposed for college football? What does that look like and is it likely to take place?

Producer's Note: I have no idea how this one slipped through the cracks unless I was just too distracted by work. So this is a make-good from a couple weeks ago. My apologies to Andy, Mylie, and all the fans. - GM ---------- This week we’ll dive into the sweep of Wisconsin where Syd Gray arguably did enough to win her 3rd B1G Player of the Week award and Kaylin Kinney battled her way to her best weekend of the season. We’ll also preview the upcoming Penn State series and let that slide into a Path to the Dance segment in which we get into the metrics and what the Huskers need to do to avoid the only option into the NCAA’s being to win the conference tourney. Click below to join the show and please add any comments or questions and we’ll do our best to address them. Or at least better than last week - sorry about that.

Pod #6 is reloaded and ready to rock this weekend! Apologies for last week’s snafu, we are locked and loaded for this episode Husker Heat begins at 8pm every Tuesday night - Join us or listen later by clicking the link below. We’ll cover the weekend rewind and the previews of what’s ahead. We’ll also start diving in weekly to the RPI and strength of schedule as the Huskers try to move up high enough to earn an NCAA bid. This week, we’ll discuss Penn State AND Rutgers weekends, preview the trip to Ann Arbor and go over the Huskers Path to the Dance as the 1st of two crucial series begins Friday. Nebraska Cornhuskers Penn State Rutgers Michigan Wolverines

Last week, Iowa lost the national title in the women’s basketball game to South Carolina. At that time, I had tweeted out toward the end of the game, “Iowa will not win another national title,” and it started a bit of an argument on Twitter with some Iowa fans who I had trolled, and who started talking about their national titles and how they have more, because Iowa has 24 national titles in wrestling. That’s a lot of titles, but it’s the only sport they’d ever won a national title in. One of the responses was that Iowa has five national titles in football, to which I went, “What the hell is that about?” Because they don’t have five national titles in football. They claim five national titles in football. At the same time, one of the other accounts on Twitter tweeted out a list of national titles held by people in football, and of course, Alabama claims 18 national titles and Michigan claims 11. Nebraska has won five national titles. Could we claim more? Particularly the 1915 national title. We could, and that’s the subject of tonight’s show. GET A SHIRT! We will be having a get together/tailgate on Sunday, April 28th. More info to come. In the mean time, join the cult! GET A CN SHIRT! GO HERE

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, LIVE and rocking the Chatterfields, the crew discusses the quite possibly the worst thing to happen to Husker football...apathy.  We’re a few weeks away from the 2024 Spring Game with a 5-star quarterback, an Elite 11, homegrown quarterback, some exciting returning pieces and some dynamic transfer portal acquisitions. And tickets are still available to the Spring Game. Will that change before April 27? Probably.  You would think enthusiasm would be higher. We’re heading into Matt Rhule’s second season, where he traditionally sees a bump in the win column. But we’ve been through the “off-season champions” schtick before. So perhaps tempered expectations are the right step. It just seems...odd.  Weird things are happening in Lincoln this Spring. Things like “trades” and “roster maneuvers.” This three-roster split drives competition but are the waters too muddied?  Meanwhile, a world champion coach was in Lincoln dispensing his wisdom. Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick spoke at the X’s and O’s Conference.  Position changes and a Matt Rhule press conference.  Did I mention the best collection of a live audience n the Chatterfields? You know they always bring it!

It’s a full house this week as Greg and Minnie are joined by Andy and Aaron.  You know Andy from Husker Heat, the Nebraska softball show. Aaron is a pretty regular Chatterfield who has been a guest on the show before and is also the Corn Nation baseball beat writer.  So we obviously have to discuss Tuesday night’s loss to in-state rival Creighton. The 5-3 tilt ended Nebraska’s 10-game win streak that saw the Huskers appear in this week’s top-25 rankings. Aaron will break down Nebraska’s rise to the rankings and the likelihood that Will Bolt’s squad can stay there after the disappointing outcome Tuesday night in Omaha.  Basketball continues its roster maneuvers, with attrition and addition.  Let’s not forget that it’s April and we are in Spring Football season. Minnie has the latest and greatest news and notes from Lincoln as practices continue.  GBR.

Nebraska made the NCAA tourney for the first time in 10 years, and because of that, I've continued watching more basketball than I can previously recall. It has been one fun tourney on both on the men's side and the women's side. On the women's side, we have Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese going at it. And by the time we do our show tonight, they will have played to see who gets into the Final Four. Zach Edey and Purdue have made the final four in the men's bracket. These are fun things, because it's sports ball. Otherwise, it's spring football time for Nebraska fans, and there's plenty going on there. And we will discuss some of the things about football, because when spring happens, it's time to look at our roster and say, what is going to be different or better than last year? So that's what tonight's show will be about.

Insert exhaustive sigh here.  One win. That’s all we wanted. Nebraska men’s basketball made the tournament for the first time in a decade, but that 8 versus 9 matchup is always a toss-up. And Texas A&M shot the ball better than they had all season while Nebraska, sadly, was well under average. So not to sound like a beleaguered Cubs fan in the depths of misery, but “there’s always next year.”  Husker women fared marginally better, winning their game against Texas A&M just to follow it up with a loss to Oregon State. The magic just ran out.  But the saddest part will be saying farewell to great players who added so much to the program during their time in Lincoln. Players like Jaz Shelley and Keisei Tominaga, among others, left their mark on their respective teams.  Oh, and other players enter the transfer portal, making reiterating that “once a Husker always a Husker” is no longer valid.  Turning the page to Spring Football, a new athletic director, and “hope springs eternal” is how we end the show.  Despite recent outcomes and roster attrition, Nebraska is on the rise.  GBR!

Tonight we’ll review & preview as always and also chat about Billie hitting #55 and also some of the injuries which have plagued the team. Corn Nation is providing the most comprehensive coverage of Huskers softball. Be sure to check out our recaps, posted ASAP following the game’s completion, and our weekly previews of the weekend’s action.

Nebraska basketball season is over. The men had their best season in 23 years, beat a number one opponent for the first time in over 40 years, enjoyed court stormings and a trip to the NCAA tourney, but they still missed out on that elusive first win. The women got their first NCAA tournament win in 10 years. Were these seasons successful? What about basketball? What were the best, and what were the worst things? And what will the future hold? For the second half of the show, Aaron, our baseball writer, joined me for an update on the baseball team. We covered the following: Can Nebraska baseball win the Big Ten?Why are other teams with worse RPI ranked and Nebraska isn’t?Has the starting pitching rotation worked itself out yet?Why do we want other Big Ten baseball teams to be as good as possible?Who is Nebraska’s biggest rival in baseball now?

What a time to be alive.  Both the Nebraska men’s and women’s basketball teams are in action Friday night in their respective NCAA Basketball Tournaments. And in a wondrous case of coincidences, BOTH teams are playing Texas A&M. You remember them, right? That’s the same school that stole our former athletic director out from under our noses.  BUT GUESS WHAT...WE GOT OURELVES A NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR!  And if rumors are to be true, he has more history of building athletic programs than his predecessor. Some athletic directors close down wrestling and football programs. Others build up football programs, make the right hires along the way, and have Midwestern roots and sensibilities.  So that’s it...that’s our show in a nutshell. Probably won’t mention quarterbacks or anything because it’s not football season right now.  GO BIG RED!

Corn Nation founder and fearless leader Jon Johnston spends this episode discussing the Texas A&M Aggies with Robert Behrens. Behrens is the managing editor of Good Bull Hunting, SB Nation’s Texas A&M team site. He is a 2005 Texas A&M graduate, a lifelong Aggie fan and is often too rational for his own good. Nebraska faces Texas A&M in the first round of both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament. Time to ask some questions about what we’re up against. It’s our beloved Huskers chance in quite a while to get that elusive NCAA tournament win. Can they do it?

We’ll review a successful home weekend as the Huskers swept Northern Colorado (2), North Dakota and Creighton to raise their record to 16-12. We’ll talk about their hot bats and Caitlyn Olensky’s rise and other things we observed. In addition, we’ll talk about the upcoming game with UNO, which looks to be pretty even as well as the kickoff of Big 10 play as the Fighting Illini come to town for three. Click below to watch at please join in the comments with thoughts and questions and we might put it up on the screen and discuss.

There is so much to talk about this week. Continued fallout and discussion of Trev Alberts leaving for Texas A&M - thrown directly in our face because the NCAA selection committees for both men’s and women’s basketball has chosen to put Nebraska up against the Texas A&M Aggies in both sports in the opening round of the NCAA tourneys. Matt Rhule had his opening press conference today for spring football, and boy was it a doozy. He wants to be in Nebraska. His son is going to school at UNL and his wife is starting a business in Lincoln. Is that proof enough? That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s the NCAA Wrestling Championship coming up this week. There’s Nebraska baseball. There’s a whole lot of fun going on. It’s an amazing time to be alive.

I didn’t have Trev Alberts leaving on my 2024 bingo card. So there’s that. Look, I know there are going to be plenty of questions about why and who’s next. But in this episode, we’re going to talk about:  Women’s basketball loses in OT to that team over there, settling for B1G Tournament runners-up. Men’s basketball ends regular season with a road win and ranked third in the conference. Hoiberg shares coach of the year honors with Matt Painter of Purdue, and how the transitive property should have shut that $#!& down. And there’s also a couple Huskers who received some all-conference honors.  And since last week, Greg watched Napoleon and found an intriguing link between that movie (and history) and where we are today in the landscape of college athletics. Did Minnie really sacrifice an entire Monday night watching it for no reason?  Chatterfields, mount up. I don’t think we’ll see Jon this week either.

We’re back for our second show tonight following the Huskers return from the Razorback Rumble in Fayetteville and also two games earlier today down in Lincoln. They are in town this weekend as well for the Big Red Spring Classic where they will play Northern Colorado (again), North Dakota and Creighton (ew). We will review last weekend, preview the next, mock an opposing fan, celebrate all the Husker Katelyns (multiple spellings) and talk about Billie Andrews’ amazing season thus far.

It was a fairly decent weekend for Nebraska Athletics as the wrestling team finished third in the Big Ten in the Big Ten Wrestling Tournament with Ridge Lovett claiming a Big Ten Championship at 149 pounds. The Nebraska men’s basketball team beat Michigan on the road and it was almost like an afterthought for everybody. They beat Michigan soundly, playing well in the process and they have the right momentum going into the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament this week as the number three seed which means they will have two byes. The Husker women’s basketball team took Iowa to overtime in the Big Ten title game, unfortunately didn’t finish and win, but against the number three team in the nation, that’s a pretty good representation. The Nebraska track and field men’s and women’s team both finished in the top 25 and out of 12 Husker entries, eight earned first team All-America honors by placing in the top eight.

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, Jon, Minnie, and Greg are joined by Kevin Knight, one-time basketball writer for Corn Nation and lifelong Big Ten Country dweller. A Spartan by birth, Kevin will join us to talk about Nebraska’s incredible season. And since the regular season finale is against the Michigan Wolverines, a team he’s hated since birth, there’s no shortage of schadenfreude at Michigan’s expense. But being a Big Ten lifer, Kevin shares his opinion on the history of men’s basketball in the conference (is it historically the best basketball conference?) as well as offer an insider’s opinion to the continued expansion of the league. Chatterfields…Mount up!