# Petros Papadakis on Nebraska, Colandrea, Oregon, Neuheisel, Lincoln

An episode of [Softy & Dick Interviews](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1245866571), 28 Oct 2026, 21 min.

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Petros Papadakis in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about going to Lincoln, Nebraska this week for the Huskies game, the history of the Cornhuskers program and key players over the years, quarterback Anthony Colandrea presenting challenges, the Ducks falling apart in 2026, the Neuheisel family, and Lincoln Riley’s situation with USC. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
[0:04] Speaker 1: Petros Papadakis.
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[0:24] Speaker 2: Baruch atah Ushallah. And now with Petros, here's Dave Softy Muller.
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[0:34] Speaker 2: All righty, boys and girls, here we go.
[0:37] Speaker 3: On a very, very, very, very, very busy Wednesday afternoon,
[0:40] Speaker 3: cracking hockey against the Maple Leafs. Yeah, coming up pregame 630,
[0:44] Speaker 3: face-off 7 o'clock right here on 93.3 KJRFM. But before then,
[0:49] Speaker 3: a chance to talk to one of the, let's face it,
[0:53] Speaker 3: I think more talented studio analysts in college football, color
[0:57] Speaker 3: analysts in college football. He is what they refer to
[1:01] Speaker 3: as an elite football mind at this level, former USC
[1:04] Speaker 3: football star. Greek-American legend, father of the month, husband of
[1:09] Speaker 3: the year, my friend, and a Trojan legend himself, Petros Papadakis.
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[1:47] Speaker 2: Great to have you, pal. Great to be here, Softie.
[1:50] Speaker 2: What's the word?
[1:51] Speaker 4: How are you? How's life in the Northwest?
[1:53] Speaker 2: Good. Going to Lincoln Friday for the big game with
[1:56] Speaker 2: the Cornhuskers.
[1:57] Speaker 4: You're going to have a great time.
[1:58] Speaker 2: Nebraska?
[2:00] Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. I know where that is.
[2:02] Speaker 3: Land at 10 o'clock on Friday night, play the game
[2:05] Speaker 3: at 7, and get the hell out and go home.
[2:07] Speaker 2: I did a game there once. How'd that go? It
[2:10] Speaker 2: went really well.
[2:10] Speaker 4: It was Scott Frost. Okay.
[2:14] Speaker 2: Scott Frost, the former Nebraska. Did he win the Heisman
[2:16] Speaker 2: at Nebraska?
[2:18] Speaker 4: No.
[2:18] Speaker 2: That was Eric Crouch.
[2:20] Speaker 4: Yeah, he won the Heisman at Nebraska. But Frost was great.
[2:23] Speaker 4: Frost was a safety. He was a safety at Stanford.
[2:28] Speaker 1: And.
[2:29] Speaker 4: Was unhappy there. His older brother went to Stanford. He
[2:33] Speaker 4: is from Nebraska, a family of Huskers. And while he's
[2:36] Speaker 4: at Stanford and they're going like 500 back in the day,
[2:41] Speaker 4: they were winning at Nebraska championships under Tom Osborne and
[2:44] Speaker 4: all that. And he just did not like the vibe
[2:47] Speaker 4: at Stanford. And he said one night after spring football,
[2:50] Speaker 4: he heard a hustle and bustle in the hallway. And
[2:54] Speaker 4: it was after like a spring game where he had
[2:56] Speaker 4: played well. And he said, finally, you know, there's something
[2:59] Speaker 4: going on and went outside and he saw a bunch
[3:02] Speaker 4: of Indian kids or something playing human chess.
[3:05] Speaker 2: What?
[3:05] Speaker 4: He said, that's it. That's the last straw. And he
[3:08] Speaker 4: transferred back to Nebraska and had a great career as
[3:12] Speaker 4: the quarterback, though he was embroiled in the part of
[3:16] Speaker 4: the Lawrence Phillips controversy. Nothing that he did wrong, but
[3:19] Speaker 4: I believe that was his girlfriend. that Lawrence Phillips assaulted. Wow.
[3:23] Speaker 4: And then was able to play again.
[3:25] Speaker 2: Sheesh.
[3:25] Speaker 4: If you remember that whole thing. So yeah, Scott Frost,
[3:28] Speaker 4: he was the coach the last time I was at Nebraska.
[3:32] Speaker 2: Gotcha.
[3:32] Speaker 4: Now it's Matt Rule.
[3:34] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[3:34] Speaker 4: But it is a remarkable thing to watch that city transform.
[3:39] Speaker 4: I got there on like a Thursday night and watched
[3:42] Speaker 4: it transform through the game day and how many people
[3:46] Speaker 4: showed up. And that's the only time in my life
[3:48] Speaker 4: I went to a yoga class locally, just found a
[3:52] Speaker 4: morning yoga class on Saturday, and there were five or
[3:55] Speaker 4: six women in the class that all had T-shirts on
[3:57] Speaker 4: that said game day, which was shocking. You usually don't
[4:02] Speaker 4: get a real ardent football following at yoga, but it
[4:05] Speaker 4: was a fun experience and something I'll never forget. I
[4:09] Speaker 4: hope to get back there someday. But usually my games
[4:12] Speaker 4: are less impactful.
[4:13] Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't.
[4:14] Speaker 3: I haven't been there since 1998, which I think was
[4:17] Speaker 3: the first year without Tom Osborne, if I remember correctly.
[4:21] Speaker 2: And first of all, Solich. Yeah, Solich.
[4:24] Speaker 3: I feel like an idiot confusing Eric Crouch for Scott Frost,
[4:27] Speaker 3: but you know.
[4:28] Speaker 4: Stupid idiot.
[4:28] Speaker 2: Whatever, it won't be though. Won't be the last time.
[4:31] Speaker 2: And we got destroyed.
[4:31] Speaker 4: They also had Tommy Frazier. Yes.
[4:34] Speaker 2: How many tackles could one man break? Remember that? The
[4:36] Speaker 2: Orange Bowl? Florida, yeah. Yeah. We got destroyed.
[4:41] Speaker 3: It was Jim Lambright was the head coach and Dick Baird,
[4:44] Speaker 3: our buddy Dick Baird, that guy right there.
[4:46] Speaker 4: Stupid.
[4:47] Speaker 3: Was coaching linebackers and we got hammered. And here we
[4:50] Speaker 3: are now almost 30 years later. And I hope that
[4:52] Speaker 3: Jed fish can walk out of there with a win,
[4:54] Speaker 3: but he's got to figure out who's playing quarterback. I mean,
[4:56] Speaker 3: you tell me, man, Elijah Brown goes to Purdue and
[4:59] Speaker 3: I know it's Purdue, but they look pretty good on offense.
[5:01] Speaker 3: Put up 38 through for three. I told you this
[5:04] Speaker 3: last week.
[5:05] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[5:06] Speaker 4: Should play with the kid that gets the most inspiration
[5:09] Speaker 4: for the offense.
[5:09] Speaker 2: They haven't announced it yet. They haven't said anything.
[5:12] Speaker 4: Why would they? There's no reason to do that because
[5:15] Speaker 4: there's a, a, the element of surprise involved and you
[5:19] Speaker 4: want Nebraska to have to prepare for both guys and
[5:22] Speaker 4: watch the tape on both guys incessantly. But I'd like
[5:25] Speaker 4: to talk more about Nebraska in the nineties. And then
[5:27] Speaker 4: we can get back to your stupid quarterback situation. Okay.
[5:31] Speaker 2: Go ahead.
[5:34] Speaker 4: You know, one of the worst things that ever happened
[5:37] Speaker 4: in the history of the sport of football in our lifetimes,
[5:42] Speaker 4: other than people dying and stuff is the fact that
[5:46] Speaker 4: that Nebraska fired Frank Solich.
[5:49] Speaker 2: Okay.
[5:50] Speaker 4: And maybe he was a drunk or something, but they
[5:53] Speaker 4: could have still hired somebody else that could have kept
[5:56] Speaker 4: that option going. When they hired Bill Callahan and cut
[6:00] Speaker 4: the head off of the most beautiful triple option in
[6:03] Speaker 4: the history of the world, they hurt college football badly.
[6:08] Speaker 4: And it was a time where the running quarterback or
[6:11] Speaker 4: any kind of quarterback that ran or the option was
[6:14] Speaker 4: very much frowned upon. in the NFL, and they lost
[6:17] Speaker 4: one recruit in particular, a guy named Tommy Zbikowski, who
[6:22] Speaker 4: we all remember played safety in the NFL and for
[6:25] Speaker 4: Notre Dame and was a prominent boxer and all of that. Well,
[6:29] Speaker 4: he was the best option quarterback in the country, and
[6:31] Speaker 4: he was committed to Nebraska. And they convinced him not
[6:35] Speaker 4: to go there because there's no future in the option
[6:37] Speaker 4: as a quarterback. So he went to Notre Dame, and
[6:41] Speaker 4: his career went from there, and that prompted Nebraska to say,
[6:44] Speaker 4: that's it. We have to evolve with the rest of football.
[6:48] Speaker 4: And I don't think they've had a great year since
[6:52] Speaker 4: that has happened. I think Pelini had them once in
[6:54] Speaker 4: the Big Ten championship game. I did that game. And
[6:58] Speaker 4: Matt Rule is battling and scuffling, but they're still not
[7:02] Speaker 4: over the hump. And it's a crazy thing to sort
[7:06] Speaker 4: of look back upon because I remember, I'm sure you
[7:09] Speaker 4: do too, the moment where Nebraska said, okay, we're not
[7:12] Speaker 4: doing this anymore. We're hiring this West Coast offense team.
[7:15] Speaker 4: dead piece of beef jerky coach named Bill Callahan. And
[7:22] Speaker 4: the whole thing collapsed and no one, not Mike Riley,
[7:27] Speaker 4: who we all love, not Scott Frost, who was great
[7:31] Speaker 4: when he was at UCF the first time around, not
[7:35] Speaker 4: even Matt rule, who I think is an excellent coach.
[7:38] Speaker 4: Nobody has been able to salvage what they were.
[7:43] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[7:44] Speaker 4: And it's because once you kill the option, once you
[7:47] Speaker 4: stop running it all year long, once you stop having
[7:51] Speaker 4: that as your culture, like we see with the academies,
[7:54] Speaker 4: you can't get it back. The old don't rub off
[7:58] Speaker 4: on the young. They just cut the tree off.
[8:00] Speaker 2: Right.
[8:01] Speaker 4: And it's one of the great travesties in the history
[8:03] Speaker 4: of football. So when you Washington types are watching that game,
[8:07] Speaker 4: you better thank your lucky stars.
[8:10] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[8:11] Speaker 4: And you're Northwestern God above that you don't have to
[8:15] Speaker 4: face that triple option or the real black shirts.
[8:17] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[8:18] Speaker 3: Well, they haven't had, they've only had three 10 when
[8:21] Speaker 3: Frank Solich went 58 and 19 and they fired him.
[8:24] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[8:25] Speaker 3: And he was 33 and 15 in the big 12.
[8:28] Speaker 3: I think it was right back in the day.
[8:29] Speaker 2: Yeah. Big 12.
[8:31] Speaker 3: And they've only had three 10-win seasons since. But now
[8:34] Speaker 3: they've got this Calandria kid, the transfer from UNLV.
[8:39] Speaker 2: He was at Virginia.
[8:40] Speaker 3: He's got like 2,000 total yards, 20 touchdowns, running around.
[8:45] Speaker 3: I hate playing running quarterbacks, and this guy can run.
[8:48] Speaker 4: He can run around to create. He's looking to throw, though.
[8:51] Speaker 4: He will run, and he can, but he's looking to throw.
[8:55] Speaker 4: And he's got a little Johnny Manziel in him, not
[8:58] Speaker 4: the a-hole part. But he's a fun player to watch
[9:02] Speaker 4: and move all around the field. And he kind of
[9:04] Speaker 4: has a little bit of four-wheel drive in him, backing up,
[9:07] Speaker 4: going forward, avoiding people, and then getting rid of the
[9:10] Speaker 4: ball down the field. And that part of it is dangerous.
[9:14] Speaker 4: He can also get himself in trouble in that way
[9:16] Speaker 4: as well, and I've seen it go bad for him.
[9:19] Speaker 4: But he's a good quarterback. He's better than anybody Washington has,
[9:23] Speaker 4: let's put it like that.
[9:24] Speaker 3: That's a low bar there, pal.
[9:26] Speaker 4: Yeah, well, he's a lot to contain.
[9:28] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[9:28] Speaker 3: I mean, you said that like you were trying to
[9:30] Speaker 3: be that, you know, make an insult there and get
[9:32] Speaker 3: under my skin.
[9:34] Speaker 2: No. I'm like, duh.
[9:35] Speaker 4: I think everybody understands that that's the truth. Good Lord, man.
[9:38] Speaker 4: But I think it's going to be tough to contain him.
[9:41] Speaker 4: They should beat you guys.
[9:42] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[9:43] Speaker 2: Hey, thanks again. How about what's going on down in Eugene, man?
[9:49] Speaker 2: Holy moly.
[9:51] Speaker 3: Dante Moore done for the year. You spend a gajillion
[9:53] Speaker 3: dollars on your roster. You go from number two in
[9:56] Speaker 3: the country to out of the poll.
[9:58] Speaker 2: Suck it, Ducks. How about that?
[10:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's one thing to pay a football
[10:03] Speaker 4: player a whole bunch of money. It's another thing to
[10:06] Speaker 4: play a football player a whole bunch of money and
[10:08] Speaker 4: the season goes absolutely sideways. But you understand that as well,
[10:12] Speaker 4: don't you? Because that's what happened with your guy's quarterback.
[10:15] Speaker 2: Good Lord.
[10:15] Speaker 4: This time.
[10:16] Speaker 2: What is going on here?
[10:17] Speaker 4: Am I wrong to say?
[10:19] Speaker 2: Why all just the shots? Why?
[10:21] Speaker 4: It's not a shot.
[10:22] Speaker 2: Why?
[10:23] Speaker 4: I'm just being honest. Okay. You're ugly. I mean, it
[10:28] Speaker 4: sucks to pay a guy $ 20 million and he's not
[10:30] Speaker 4: going to play, you know?
[10:31] Speaker 2: Or whatever it is.
[10:32] Speaker 4: $ 5 million, $ 10 million. I don't know.
[10:34] Speaker 2: $ 20, $ 30, whatever.
[10:36] Speaker 4: I don't know. But it sucks. You're paying that guy
[10:39] Speaker 4: to sit there and wear a hoodie and have his
[10:41] Speaker 4: hair all on his face. That feels bad. It feels terrible.
[10:45] Speaker 4: And then you pay the backup and he goes out
[10:46] Speaker 4: there and throws 20 picks. And it's like, what are
[10:48] Speaker 4: we doing?
[10:50] Speaker 2: He's terrible.
[10:51] Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the attrition of the coordinators, something we
[10:55] Speaker 4: talked about after the Oklahoma State game, might have caught
[10:57] Speaker 4: up a little bit to Oregon having to replace Dillingham
[11:02] Speaker 4: and then another really good hire in Stein. And maybe
[11:06] Speaker 4: they don't have enough age on their roster, coaching-wise.
[11:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
[11:11] Speaker 4: That's been some of the criticism. Somebody showed me a
[11:13] Speaker 4: stat where every 10 years, Oregon has a really down year,
[11:17] Speaker 4: like Mark Helfrich or Willie Taggart or somebody like that.
[11:21] Speaker 4: And I don't think it's the end of Dan Lanning.
[11:23] Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of disappointment. I think there
[11:26] Speaker 4: is some unrest just because Oregon is Oregon because of
[11:30] Speaker 4: one guy. And that's the Nike situation and Phil Knight.
[11:34] Speaker 4: And I'm sure he has it in place to where
[11:37] Speaker 4: even after he's gone, the spigot doesn't stop spraying money
[11:41] Speaker 4: all over them.
[11:42] Speaker 2: No question.
[11:44] Speaker 4: But at the same time, there is a sense of
[11:46] Speaker 4: urgency to win while he's alive. And he's pretty old.
[11:52] Speaker 4: So I understand that part of it. But I don't
[11:54] Speaker 4: think starting over at Oregon may be a little bit
[11:57] Speaker 4: of a tweak to the coordinator situation, which is something
[12:00] Speaker 4: they're already doing. But I don't think starting over is
[12:03] Speaker 4: the answer. But I think they better buckle up and
[12:07] Speaker 4: be happy to play in the Alamo Bowl or something
[12:09] Speaker 4: like that.
[12:10] Speaker 2: Well, you know who they have this weekend in Eugene?
[12:13] Speaker 2: Chip Kelly. Northwestern.
[12:14] Speaker 4: Northwestern and my guy Aiden Childs.
[12:17] Speaker 2: How about that?
[12:18] Speaker 4: Who's having a great comeback year. Former Oregon State Dynamo
[12:23] Speaker 4: crapped out at Michigan State with Jonathan Smith. And now
[12:26] Speaker 4: he's with Jerry Neuheisel and everybody's hero, Chip Kelly. And
[12:33] Speaker 4: whoever the head coach is, nobody even knows the head coach.
[12:35] Speaker 4: It's just Jerry and Jim Kelly. He's some white guy.
[12:38] Speaker 4: Why do you say Jerry Neuheisel like that, though? Jerry Neuheisel.
[12:43] Speaker 2: Because he's kind of a dork. Is he?
[12:45] Speaker 4: Well, yeah. Like a dork in that, like a bad
[12:48] Speaker 4: guy in an 80s movie type of dork.
[12:50] Speaker 2: His dad's on the show tomorrow. Yeah, tell him I
[12:52] Speaker 2: said hi.
[12:53] Speaker 4: Rick.
[12:54] Speaker 2: Yeah, I know who his dad is. Are you tight
[12:55] Speaker 2: with Rick?
[12:57] Speaker 4: We're not tight, but we get along quite well. He'll
[13:00] Speaker 4: come on the show if I ask him.
[13:02] Speaker 2: To, Softie. Not after I tell him you called his
[13:04] Speaker 2: son a dork.
[13:05] Speaker 4: Well, I think Rick probably knows that. Rick's a pretty
[13:07] Speaker 4: big dork, too, with his pear body. Tell Rick to
[13:11] Speaker 4: play us a song on the guitar. I gave my
[13:16] Speaker 4: love a cherry that had no stone. I gave my
[13:28] Speaker 4: love a chicken that had no bone.
[13:36] Speaker 3: Hey, how about your guy Lincoln down there in L.A.?
[13:42] Speaker 3: I'm the best for USC, and USC is the.
[13:46] Speaker 2: Best for me. Did you see that quote?
[13:49] Speaker 4: You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh darn it.
[13:53] Speaker 2: People like me. Stuart Smalley. Yeah.
[13:55] Speaker 4: Daily affirmation. You know, that's the more, that's the most
[13:59] Speaker 4: human I've seen him sound in years. Really?
[14:01] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[14:02] Speaker 4: I mean, that was, and then that's not even that human. Right.
[14:05] Speaker 4: So I don't understand why it's a week to week
[14:09] Speaker 4: situation at USC. I think this team basically showed their
[14:13] Speaker 4: true colors under this head coach when they lost to Tulane.
[14:16] Speaker 4: It is very first year and then turn things around
[14:20] Speaker 4: the next year with Caleb Williams being the number one
[14:22] Speaker 4: team in the country. and being nowhere near as good
[14:26] Speaker 4: as they were when they had a more Clay Helton-esque roster.
[14:30] Speaker 4: And it's not been any good since then. And you
[14:33] Speaker 4: could say, well, USC's okay, but that's not good enough.
[14:36] Speaker 4: The amount of money they've invested in this coach, what
[14:39] Speaker 4: they've given to this coach, they've hired him a GM
[14:42] Speaker 4: to introduce him to the high school coaches in town
[14:44] Speaker 4: because they didn't think that was important.
[14:45] Speaker 2: That is amazing. That is unbelievable.
[14:48] Speaker 4: Yeah, they had to hire a guy for a million
[14:50] Speaker 4: dollars to take him down to modern day and send
[14:53] Speaker 4: a margarita. And Carson, I'm serious.
[14:55] Speaker 2: Come on.
[14:56] Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, they had to fire Grinch.
[14:59] Speaker 2: I'm not lying.
[15:00] Speaker 4: They had to fire Grinch and hire, uh, then, uh,
[15:04] Speaker 4: D and Lynn steal him from UCLA that he didn't
[15:07] Speaker 4: want to coordinate defense there anymore. So now it's Gary Patterson.
[15:11] Speaker 4: They've hired some of his friends. They fired some of
[15:14] Speaker 4: his friends. They've hired more of his friends. It's never ending.
[15:18] Speaker 4: And it's all down to one common denominator. The team
[15:22] Speaker 4: doesn't run the ball. Well, The team is terrible on
[15:25] Speaker 4: the road. They get punched in the mouth when they travel,
[15:28] Speaker 4: and it's clear how to beat them on the road.
[15:31] Speaker 4: The quarterback has not developed like he's supposed to under
[15:34] Speaker 4: a quarterback guru like Lincoln Riley, and it's not going
[15:39] Speaker 4: to be any different. It's not going to change because
[15:42] Speaker 4: he's shown you over and over year after year, regardless
[15:45] Speaker 4: of what he says, that this is who he is now.
[15:48] Speaker 4: Is there a buyout in place? Is somebody going to
[15:50] Speaker 4: be able to do something? I doubt it. The silver lining,
[15:53] Speaker 4: if you're a USC fan is, or you care about
[15:55] Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley, if you beat Ohio State with their backup quarterback,
[16:01] Speaker 4: you're playing at home where you play pretty well. If
[16:03] Speaker 4: you beat Indiana in Indiana with that defense, I don't know.
[16:10] Speaker 4: after Wisconsin just did what they did to you, and
[16:13] Speaker 4: then you'd have to beat UCLA, who's pretty darn good. Yeah. Like,
[16:16] Speaker 4: if you beat all those teams in Maryland, then you're
[16:18] Speaker 4: going to be in the college football playoff.
[16:20] Speaker 2: That's a lot of ifs, pal.
[16:21] Speaker 1: Right?
[16:22] Speaker 2: Well, I mean, that's what they have ahead of them. Yeah.
[16:24] Speaker 4: But, I mean, I don't think it's going to happen.
[16:27] Speaker 4: I think I've been telling you the same thing that
[16:29] Speaker 4: we've been looking at for years.
[16:30] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[16:31] Speaker 4: And it seems like it happens.
[16:33] Speaker 2: What are you doing, by the way? Did you just
[16:34] Speaker 2: fall over?
[16:35] Speaker 4: No, I just got up off a very squeaky chair. Ha, ha, ha.
[16:41] Speaker 2: I thought you fell off your chair and hit the deck.
[16:44] Speaker 1: No.
[16:44] Speaker 2: All right.
[16:46] Speaker 4: I'm done answering the question. I don't have any questions.
[16:49] Speaker 2: How about UCLA?
[16:50] Speaker 4: No, I'm done.
[16:50] Speaker 3: UCLA is the hot story, though, man. I mean, Chesney's
[16:53] Speaker 3: kind of making a mockery of this guy, isn't he,
[16:55] Speaker 3: a little bit?
[16:55] Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the framing in town. And it's really interesting, too,
[16:59] Speaker 4: like the media part of it. Because Lincoln Riley doesn't
[17:01] Speaker 4: let anybody talk to anybody. He's very churlish about that.
[17:06] Speaker 4: And the only time that people get to talk to
[17:08] Speaker 4: players is like the seven minutes he sits there after
[17:10] Speaker 4: the game with two guys flanking him. And the media
[17:13] Speaker 4: is very frustrated in town. They don't get to tell
[17:15] Speaker 4: any stories about USC, even though there's good stories. And
[17:19] Speaker 4: most of the time, you really just want to celebrate
[17:21] Speaker 4: these guys. And UCLA, conversely, I mean, they're not even
[17:24] Speaker 4: on our station. But if we call them and say, hey,
[17:27] Speaker 4: we want to talk to that Dieffenbach guy, they say,
[17:29] Speaker 4: what time? What time do you want him? We say, hey,
[17:32] Speaker 4: do you have a linebacker or something that's a good talker? Yeah,
[17:35] Speaker 4: what time? We want Chesney. What time you want him?
[17:39] Speaker 4: Coach would love to come on. I mean, they're giving
[17:41] Speaker 4: their players media training. It's like the opposite of what's
[17:45] Speaker 4: going on at USC, and it makes USC look even worse. Yeah,
[17:48] Speaker 4: they hit a little bit of a scheduling lottery, so
[17:51] Speaker 4: to speak. Joel Klatt used that term. UCLA has this year.
[17:56] Speaker 4: But they've also, I mean, I don't think any of us,
[17:59] Speaker 4: regardless of what their schedule is, looking at it before
[18:01] Speaker 4: the season started, none of us, saw what UCLA was
[18:05] Speaker 4: going to do, saw that coming. That maybe that they'd
[18:09] Speaker 4: be improved under Chesney, but undefeated Halloween weekend with Nevada
[18:14] Speaker 4: coming into town, going to be undefeated after Halloween in November,
[18:19] Speaker 4: none of us saw that coming. And it's been inspirational
[18:23] Speaker 4: to watch it happen and watch them try to wake
[18:25] Speaker 4: up that sleeping giant. And with that going on across town, yes,
[18:29] Speaker 4: it makes Lincoln-Riley look even worse.
[18:31] Speaker 3: What do you got planned for Saturday night? Taking the
[18:33] Speaker 3: kids out trick-or-treating? No, I got another national game.
[18:37] Speaker 4: I have Ohio State-USC on national radio, so I'm going
[18:40] Speaker 4: to go back over there and call that game.
[18:41] Speaker 2: Does Dana take them out, the kids?
[18:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, they just do their own thing. The neighborhood is
[18:46] Speaker 4: kind of like a real S-show on... halloween you know
[18:50] Speaker 4: there's a lot of people that come into the neighborhood
[18:52] Speaker 4: and do all kinds of stuff and everybody's got like
[18:54] Speaker 4: a giant blown up grim reaper some stupid ass skeleton
[18:57] Speaker 4: that looks like a giant and i just i despise
[19:00] Speaker 4: halloween i'm glad i'm doing a game.
[19:02] Speaker 3: That is the worst i think i don't know maybe
[19:04] Speaker 3: i'm in no position to talk about it because i
[19:06] Speaker 3: don't have any kids but no you don't i got
[19:08] Speaker 3: a fundamental problem with people that like get in the
[19:10] Speaker 3: car and drive like 20 neighborhoods over just to go
[19:13] Speaker 3: trick or treat.
[19:14] Speaker 4: Well some neighborhoods are more desirable for that and i
[19:17] Speaker 4: understand but and uh Yeah, but you're right. I mean,
[19:20] Speaker 4: it's a long-standing debate in the city of Los Angeles.
[19:24] Speaker 4: Is it cool to go to a different neighborhood and trick-or-treat? No.
[19:27] Speaker 4: Because that neighborhood is bougier than yours and they give
[19:29] Speaker 4: out whole Snickers bars.
[19:30] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[19:31] Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not acceptable. Stay in your own neighborhood. No!
[19:35] Speaker 2: Do your own trick-or-treating.
[19:37] Speaker 4: Do you have candy and distribute it to the young fans,
[19:39] Speaker 4: the young fans of KJR?
[19:41] Speaker 2: No, we turn our lights off and act like we're
[19:43] Speaker 2: not home. I can see that. I won't even be here.
[19:48] Speaker 2: I'll be in Lincoln.
[19:49] Speaker 3: Like I said, apparently Huskies have no chance of winning,
[19:53] Speaker 3: according to you.
[19:53] Speaker 2: I didn't say that. You absolutely did say that.
[19:56] Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to win.
[19:58] Speaker 2: See? Alright, we gotta run. Good stuff.
[20:00] Speaker 3: I don't like your head coach doesn't inspire me. We'll
[20:03] Speaker 3: see what happens on Saturday. He might surprise you.
[20:05] Speaker 4: I called Steve Spurrier before the game. He said we
[20:07] Speaker 4: were going to win.
[20:11] Speaker 2: We got to go, man.
[20:12] Speaker 4: Bill Belichick said we win.
[20:19] Speaker 2: Have fun Saturday.
[20:21] Speaker 4: Thanks, Softie. Happy Halloween to all you and your wonderful listeners.
[20:24] Speaker 2: See you, buddy.
[20:25] Speaker 3: Petros Papadakis, Kevin Harlan joins at five. Coming up before
[20:29] Speaker 3: Kraken Hockey, the boys in Toronto at seven from Climate
[20:33] Speaker 3: Pledge right here on 93.3 KJRFM.

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