1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,840 Welcome back and thanks for tuning in. 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:15,040 You're listening to episode three of On the Jumbotron and today we have a fantastic guest 3 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,640 joining us. 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,800 We're thrilled to chat with Brandon Meyer, the Senior Associate Athletics Director for 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:27,520 Marketing and Multimedia at the University of Nebraska. 6 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:33,180 On the Jumbotron is your backstage pass to the world of game day entertainment. 7 00:00:33,180 --> 00:00:38,360 We delve into the planning rooms and behind the scenes action to bring you stories and 8 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:44,040 insights from the pros who create unforgettable experiences for fans. 9 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:50,160 Our mission is to encourage, highlight and spotlight the creatives and professionals 10 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,200 who make game days extraordinary. 11 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:00,000 Get ready to be inspired, informed and entertained with insightful knowledge, creative hacks 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,480 and hilarious stories. 13 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:07,320 This is the podcast that behind the scenes game professionals have been waiting for. 14 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:10,520 So make sure you share this and all episodes. 15 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,440 Here's your host, Christopher Lee. 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,680 Hello and thank you for joining me today right here on the Jumbotron. 17 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,640 My name is Christopher Lee and I'm excited about today's guest. 18 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,080 Brandon Meyer is joining us from the University of Nebraska. 19 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:26,080 I'm here. 20 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:27,080 What's going on my man? 21 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:28,080 Thanks for having me. 22 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,080 Good. 23 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:30,080 I'm so happy that you're here. 24 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:39,720 You're at Nebraska and Nebraska is doing some phenomenal things. 25 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,720 But before we get into the phenomenal things, I want to go back to where it all started 26 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:45,720 for you. 27 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,600 So where did you get this bug that itched though? 28 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,160 I need to be involved in production. 29 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,400 You know, I was in the right place at the right time. 30 00:01:54,400 --> 00:02:01,080 I got a job in high school at a local TV station, one of the smallest markets in the country. 31 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:02,800 At a small market, you get to do it all. 32 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,160 I got to do weekend sports. 33 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,360 I got to do a lot of camera work. 34 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,600 I did studio camera work. 35 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,400 I cleaned the bathrooms. 36 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,440 I did everything that everything I could there. 37 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,760 And part of our job was to come to Nebraska here and cover the games. 38 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:27,100 So I got a chance to kind of see what they were doing here and meet some of the early 39 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:34,480 pioneers of the Jumbotron and big screen industry and quickly figured out like, oh 40 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:39,120 my gosh, this is something I really want to really want to try. 41 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,400 I really want to do in the future. 42 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,600 So that's kind of where it all started. 43 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:49,920 I went to school here in Nebraska, got a job in athletics in Husker vision, which was a 44 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,440 new department at the time. 45 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:57,200 They just put in the very first big screens in college athletics and really got to learn 46 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,880 from a few of the early innovators of this field. 47 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,860 And that innovator is, you know, his name is Jeff Schmall. 48 00:03:06,860 --> 00:03:09,860 And what a guy. 49 00:03:09,860 --> 00:03:10,860 What a guy. 50 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:13,640 Let's take that little rabbit trail right there because you brought it up. 51 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:17,640 I was going to go there, but I didn't know we were going to go there this soon. 52 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:23,440 He is almost like the grandfather of game day production. 53 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,480 Is that an accurate title? 54 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:31,920 You think he's definitely one of the early pioneers of, of, you know, in stadium production 55 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:35,200 and running a big screen. 56 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,640 Jeff had a very similar background to me. 57 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:45,000 He was at a local, he was the sports director at a local station and kind of made this leap 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,800 from television news over to athletics and, you know, and really embraced it. 59 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,400 You know, cared a lot about content, knew a lot about content and just, you know, used 60 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,760 a lot of his skills that he had. 61 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,000 He was an all-American tennis player at Nebraska. 62 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,740 So he was a student athlete and, you know, knew a lot about cameras and media and editing 63 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:18,620 and storytelling from his days at 1011 and made the transition to, to college athletics 64 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:22,720 because at the time there was, there wasn't anyone nationwide. 65 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,400 I think at the time maybe the Yankees and the Dodgers had big screens and, you know, 66 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:35,360 it was something that was part of a professional team's repertoire at the time. 67 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:42,800 And so, you know, he, he kind of sort of had to invent the position as he went and, and 68 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,440 build it as he, as he saw fit. 69 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:47,440 That's remarkable. 70 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,660 So were you there before the video board or you saw it come up or was the video board 71 00:04:52,660 --> 00:04:53,660 already there? 72 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:58,760 It was there a year after it was installed, so probably HuskerVision's second year of 73 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,360 existence is when I began working there. 74 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:03,520 So okay. 75 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:09,280 So when I was working at Virginia Tech, I saw our big screen, our, our Jumbotron put 76 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:13,080 up and I know the complications with all of that. 77 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,520 So being only a year in, what some of the things that y'all have to go through and learning 78 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:19,520 curve? 79 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,680 My gosh, I'll sound like a dinosaur if I begin talking about that. 80 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:25,920 But there was no LEDs. 81 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:33,520 The screens were CRT, which was kind of a really early technology where the pixels are 82 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:41,520 not as big as a pencil tip, but they're about as big as a quarter and the modules were, 83 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,560 you know, about two and a half inches by two and a half inches. 84 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,000 You know, there was no, when I started, there was no nonlinear editing. 85 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,040 We got our Avid system the next year. 86 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:04,240 So I learned doing A-roll, B-roll edits on M2 and beta machines and, you know, just kind 87 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:09,120 of learned the hard way on doing some of that stuff. 88 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,080 We weren't like splicing film. 89 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:19,120 We were state of the art at the time, but again, really learned all of the basics of 90 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:27,880 video production from lighting to shooting to lenses and different videotape formats 91 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:28,880 and all that. 92 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,000 So it was a different world. 93 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:39,160 You had a big deck on one shoulder, it connected to your camera on a big umbilical cord that 94 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:44,880 always had like 50 pins inside that they would always break. 95 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:50,920 So every once in a while I get out of bed and I still feel those three quarter inch 96 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:57,120 and M2 machines that I carried around 20 years ago. 97 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,720 I know what you're talking about. 98 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,160 I mean, I had to do some AV editing. 99 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,920 I remember the big beta decks. 100 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,440 I remember all that stuff. 101 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:06,720 And yeah, my shoulder. 102 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,600 Yeah, I still feel all that. 103 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:09,880 I still feel all that. 104 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,400 These guys today got it good, man. 105 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:17,960 These things are they're a hundred times more powerful and then they only weigh a few pounds. 106 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,400 And they're so light. 107 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:20,400 They are. 108 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,520 And then people still complain. 109 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,680 I'm like, you don't know. 110 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,960 You have no idea of what it used to be like. 111 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:38,080 So just working with with Jeff and learning from him and going into game day production, 112 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,800 how did how did y'all prepare for the fans? 113 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,160 Jeff had two mottos. 114 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,160 One's entertain and form inspire. 115 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:52,600 He said everything we create has to sort of do one of those things. 116 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,520 And all of those things are important. 117 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,800 Like you know, there are some videos and some things that need to entertain. 118 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:05,040 There are some things that need to inform and and deliver statistics and give folks 119 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,040 more stats. 120 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:11,280 And you know, there are other things that need to inspire fans to get out of their seat 121 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,360 and and get loud. 122 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:21,200 The other thing that I think it's so true in today's world where our creatives are they're 123 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:27,000 working on so many different platform forms from phones to Internet to social media to 124 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 big screens. 125 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:34,240 They're creating content in a hundred different canvases. 126 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,880 You know, but Jeff said content is king. 127 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:43,560 Like it doesn't matter where it's going to air, but good content will always win out. 128 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:50,920 And I always say I took that from Jeff and he said sometimes it's going to air on a crappy 129 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,480 little screen and sometimes it's going to air on a big screen in the stadium. 130 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,920 But he's like, if it's good content, it's going to appeal to fans. 131 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:01,920 And that's so true. 132 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:10,640 I mean, content, I mean, it's it's something that like another quote of his was, you know, 133 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,560 always make it interesting and give fans a reason to applaud. 134 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:25,320 I mean, yeah, that that line right there is is so important to understand that you are 135 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,720 creating for the fans. 136 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:33,800 I mean, as an editor, as a producer, I know that I get heavily involved in making my stuff. 137 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,320 But then I have to remember it's not just for me. 138 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,440 It's for the for the for the behinds that are going to be in the seats. 139 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,520 It's for that person that is coming to the game for the first time that's never been 140 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:45,920 to a game before. 141 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,720 It's also for the season ticket holder who who has been here, who wants to complain about 142 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:51,720 things. 143 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,440 It's all about them. 144 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,560 I mean, is that something that you stand true to today? 145 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:58,560 For sure. 146 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:02,280 And that's what's different about creating content on these different platforms. 147 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,520 You know, a lot of times the same video you put out on social media, you can't put it 148 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:14,120 out in the in the, you know, in in venue because there will be a loud roar and they're going 149 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:20,720 to need a second or a second and a half, you know, to to catch what's what's next. 150 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:27,080 So that's been something I preach when I reviewed different pieces of content like, oh, that's 151 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,400 a really good line, but you got to let it breathe because the crowd is going to go crazy 152 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,760 and then they're going to come back. 153 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:37,200 And if you go on, if you go too quickly on to the next thing, they're going to they're 154 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,720 going to miss it. 155 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,960 The other thing is just using graphics like a lot of times, you know, there we have 85,000 156 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:50,680 people who attend our games like I bet over half of them don't exactly hear exactly what 157 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:51,680 said. 158 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:55,840 So we try to enhance what those videos are with graphics. 159 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:02,800 And so I always got like you got a fancy closed caption it so that people understand what 160 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,920 that line he said was. 161 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:11,880 And so now it's a different medium for sure when you when you adapt or create content 162 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,280 for for a stadium. 163 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:24,240 So Jeff understood that and Jeff planned for it and instead he did really. 164 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:30,080 I mean, he would sit out there and kind of study like, oh, this is how they react to 165 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,640 that. 166 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,440 What traditions have you all kept from his day? 167 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:44,060 Well, the big one is this conversation with Brandon Meyer continues after this short break 168 00:11:44,060 --> 00:11:45,720 from our sponsor. 169 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:50,780 Ever wonder how those fans on the Jumbotron 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conversation and thanks for joining us on the Jumbotron podcast. 181 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:45,920 So what traditions have y'all kept from his day? 182 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,200 Well, the big one is the tunnel walk, the team entrance. 183 00:12:50,200 --> 00:13:00,120 That was sort of Jeff's vision from the beginning was to create this video that would reveal 184 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:07,700 the team walking down the tunnel and the music that the team still walks out to is the music 185 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:12,360 Jeff chose long ago back in 1994. 186 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,120 It's still the serious music. 187 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:23,160 And so, you know, that's a that's probably the biggest tradition, you know, that that 188 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:27,760 stayed true here in Nebraska. 189 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,600 You know, I think the other one is less content. 190 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,320 It's more student based. 191 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,680 Jeff hired a lot of students. 192 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:42,720 I was fortunate to be one of those students that was hired and learned from them. 193 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:50,000 And Husker vision still to this day leans on probably got about 50 right now over there 194 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,200 that that help them out. 195 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:59,200 And we couldn't do anything that we're doing without their help, without their creativity, 196 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,320 without their innovation, you know, and without their hard work. 197 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:08,720 And that's that's a tradition that I hope stays here at the university for years to 198 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,720 come. 199 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:14,000 They give a they make a big deal of a student of the year. 200 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,520 You know, they really honor and celebrate those. 201 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:21,680 And what's really cool to see is some of those kids are having scholarships that are in Jeff's 202 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,660 honor and shot clean is now doing a scholarship. 203 00:14:25,660 --> 00:14:28,760 He took over the department after Jeff left. 204 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:37,000 And that's it's really neat to see, you know, those guys sort of celebrate and honor the 205 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,320 great student program that has put so many professionals like myself out into the sports 206 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,440 world. 207 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:51,480 So being a student and now being the person where, you know, where Jeff was sitting and 208 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:57,520 now where you're sitting, I mean, does that does that at times blow your mind? 209 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:05,120 I just think it gives me a unique perspective to, you know, there's there's two ways to 210 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,360 think about students. 211 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,360 One, they're not good enough to do, you know, what we need them to do. 212 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:16,560 And a lot of folks have come across a lot of people that say that they're like, yeah, 213 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,120 this student student can't do this. 214 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:24,640 Like we need to we need to hire an outside company or we need to bring in freelance professionals. 215 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:30,080 Or there's some that are like that sort of embrace it and go, oh, no, students have the 216 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,080 passion. 217 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,080 They have the energy. 218 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:37,520 They have the creativity and the drive to do great work. 219 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,080 And you know, we're going to let them do that. 220 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,920 You know, I would say at the Houston Rockets, like I wanted to to get more of a student 221 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,040 program going and professional sports are a little different. 222 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:54,560 Like you're not sitting on a campus surrounded by one hundred and fifty kids that that's 223 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,280 their major and this is what they wanted to go into. 224 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,920 So no, it was a little different. 225 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:09,840 But I would say one constant, though, is this teamwork like this industry. 226 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,280 You can't do much by yourself, to be honest with you. 227 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:20,760 I mean, it's about coordinating and collaborating and it's about working with a with a team. 228 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,160 And that's that's what I do right now. 229 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:30,080 More than anything is just try to wrangle all of our content creators and get them to 230 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:37,340 collaborate, get them to share content, to share ideas, make sure there's not duplication 231 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:38,500 of effort. 232 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:43,040 Try to build systems so that they can easily share content. 233 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:50,760 And so we've got we've got like 50 people that hold a camera at any given time here 234 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:58,200 working at Nebraska and just making sure that they're all going the right way. 235 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:04,520 And you know, doing the right thing is is a big part of my job right now. 236 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:13,600 And then you have 50 50 plus ideas from from creators who are using their phones are almost 237 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:18,280 like their jumbotrons and that, you know, they you know, they're on there, they're 238 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:23,080 being creative, they're using and searching TikTok or they're searching other forms of 239 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,840 media to find these things. 240 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:34,400 What sort of ideas are they bringing to Nebraska to you to be put on the jumbotron? 241 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:41,600 You know, I think what they're doing is using those techniques and using those things that 242 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:47,920 they see on TikTok to sort of adapt it to different things we're doing here. 243 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,320 I mean, to be honest, yeah, they're constantly bringing us ideas. 244 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,620 I would say very trendy ideas like, hey, this is a trend I saw on TikTok. 245 00:17:55,620 --> 00:18:01,180 What have we got to Batman's basketball players or women's basketball players to to do this? 246 00:18:01,180 --> 00:18:05,000 And then we create some big screen content with it. 247 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,360 So you know, more than anything, that's it. 248 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:12,760 I think it's just good for for new ideas. 249 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:19,000 You know, but they're they're they're constantly sometimes I feel like TikTok is now probably 250 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:27,080 old and they're on to a new platform that they're out there grabbing ideas. 251 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,280 So what is the best idea that a student has brought to you? 252 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:32,600 That's a good question. 253 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,960 The best idea that a student has brought to me. 254 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,000 The answer is coming up after this short break. 255 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,160 But for now, check out this in case you missed it. 256 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,520 Replay brought to you by fun 360. 257 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:51,480 It's an OTJ replay brought to you by fun 360. 258 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,600 Jeff's Jeff had two mottos. 259 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,600 One's entertain and form inspire. 260 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:03,040 He said everything we create has to sort of do one of those things. 261 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,960 And all of those things are important. 262 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,240 Like, you know, there are some videos and some things that need to entertain. 263 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:15,480 There are some things that need to inform and and deliver statistics and give folks 264 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:16,480 more stats. 265 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:21,720 And, you know, there are other things that need to inspire fans to get out of their seat 266 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,800 and and get loud. 267 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:31,640 The other thing that I think it's so true in today's world where our creatives are they're 268 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:37,440 working on so many different platform forms from phones to Internet to social media to 269 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:38,440 big screens. 270 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:44,680 They're creating content in a hundred different canvases. 271 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,280 You know, but Jeff said content is king. 272 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:54,000 Like, it doesn't matter where it's going to air, but good content will always win out. 273 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,320 And I always say I took that from Jeff. 274 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:03,440 And he said sometimes it's going to air on a crappy little screen and sometimes it's 275 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,920 going to air on a big screen in the stadium. 276 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,640 But he's like, if it's good content, it's going to appeal to the fans. 277 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:18,640 In case you missed it brought to you by 360 can smile, spin, share. 278 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:23,320 Now let's get back to the podcast. 279 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:31,060 When I was at Oklahoma, a student brought some ideas on a on a women's gymnastics video 280 00:20:31,060 --> 00:20:32,360 intro video. 281 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:34,240 And like it was for women's gymnastics. 282 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:41,080 And we were kind of like, man, OK, like, let your creativity soar and use, you know, use 283 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,400 all these techniques and cold sparks. 284 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,560 And there's some things I hadn't even heard of before. 285 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:47,560 Right. 286 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,360 And and the video turned out amazing. 287 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:57,400 And you know, it's kind of one of those that I look back and go, you know, wow, what a 288 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,360 what a great idea. 289 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:06,320 You know, you you took a chance and like and it really, really paid off. 290 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:17,040 So but there was like some glow in the dark paint used and all kinds of just kind of wild 291 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,040 stuff. 292 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,040 And I was like, oh, man, this is not going to work. 293 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,400 But no, it turned out to be one of the best videos we've done that year. 294 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,760 And I think won a bunch of idea awards. 295 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,480 I remember the smoke bomb era. 296 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:31,480 Yeah. 297 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,720 Where everything was a color smoke bomb. 298 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:34,720 Yeah, for sure. 299 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:35,720 Remember that? 300 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,320 Did you all do anything like that? 301 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:38,320 We did. 302 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,320 Yeah. 303 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,560 That was kind of on that same path. 304 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:47,080 And then just things got so messy with the camera and you had to be, you know, careful 305 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,040 about where you release the smoke bombs and, you know, facilities. 306 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,840 They got upset with us. 307 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,680 They're messing up the field. 308 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:55,680 You're messing up the court. 309 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,880 But I'm like, but this shot is going to be so cool. 310 00:21:58,880 --> 00:21:59,880 Yeah. 311 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:04,160 Heck, just the other day, you know, someone said, why don't we do a drone fly through 312 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,160 the new facility? 313 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:11,560 You know, here's some ideas like, you know, I don't know if that was completely student 314 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:17,680 led, but it's like, you know, yeah, just getting different perspective is great. 315 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:18,680 And we did one. 316 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:24,200 And I think it has more views than any video we've put out this entire year. 317 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:31,720 But a continuous fly through of our entire new Osborne athletic complex. 318 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,880 Those videos are pretty hot right now. 319 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:34,880 Yeah. 320 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,560 Continuous fly through and whoever is driving those drones, man, they are good. 321 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,240 It's one thing I just love about the industry. 322 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,960 Like I'm at a level where I'm sort of overseeing creatives. 323 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,320 But yet, like, I just love that you can't ever master this. 324 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:57,680 Like, you know, every six months, new technology comes out, new cameras come out. 325 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:04,800 They're now talking 6K and they're, you know, they're smaller, they're lighter, they're 326 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,760 point of view, they can fly on a drone. 327 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:14,880 Like, you know, you can't ever just sit back and go like, I've mastered this. 328 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,920 Like the industry will pass you by, you know, so quick. 329 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:25,840 So I love watching our creative guys push the limits. 330 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:31,040 And like I cringe, but yet I smile every time they come to me and they say, hey, we need 331 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,440 some extra money. 332 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:33,440 We've got this idea. 333 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,160 I'm like, you know, but I, but I get it. 334 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,960 Like that's what it takes. 335 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:44,400 That's one thing that you all at Nebraska are, are good at is pioneering things. 336 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,800 And recently, volleyball day. 337 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,200 I mean, that was a huge, huge success. 338 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:56,480 Let's, let's talk about that and the planning and you know, the outcome from that. 339 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,200 Oh man, it was. 340 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,320 Only the great outdoors can accommodate a celebration this big. 341 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:13,600 Women's sports simply has never experienced any number of fans above 91,700 in the history 342 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,160 of the planet. 343 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,320 Now it's competing in front of 90,000 people at Memorial stadium. 344 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,560 It is an amazing story. 345 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:29,720 It was a great event. 346 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:36,320 You know, I, I thought it was a crazy idea at first, but I'm like, man, I'm, I'm, I'm 347 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,240 into crazy ideas. 348 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:46,840 I had no idea that we would get 92,000 people to attend a volleyball event. 349 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:52,440 I think my, my prediction was like 40 or 50 and keep in mind, like the all time record 350 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,280 was 18 something at the time. 351 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,360 So I'm like 40, like we're going to double the record. 352 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:03,360 Like that's, that's a big number. 353 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:08,520 But it was just all ever, ever the stars aligned on everything on the project, to be honest 354 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,280 with you from the announcement and the president and AD and the governor sort of challenging 355 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:22,480 fans the week we started off the football team was away. 356 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:28,220 You know, everything aligned the weather, if we'd had the event a week before or a week 357 00:25:28,220 --> 00:25:31,280 after it wouldn't have happened a week before would have been too hot. 358 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,520 It was a hundred degrees in the week after it was raining, but the stars aligned, we 359 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:41,120 got a beautiful night, the ticket was affordable. 360 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:46,120 You know, volleyball is, is huge here in Nebraska. 361 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:51,040 The popularity is big and there's just a lot of people who can't get a ticket. 362 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,660 So this was that opportunity. 363 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:59,880 You know, we plan to do sort of an end stage show and do a concert afterwards. 364 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,160 And there was even just complications with that. 365 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,320 The NCAA said, you know, like, well, you can't announce the concert then, or then you wouldn't 366 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,360 hold the record. 367 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:17,760 So we, you know, we sort of put our concert plans on hold until we went on sale. 368 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:24,560 And you know, 24 hours into the on sale, we had to open up the South end zone and because 369 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,740 we needed more seats. 370 00:26:26,740 --> 00:26:31,160 So it was a crazy event. 371 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,540 You know, I've never been a part of anything like it. 372 00:26:34,540 --> 00:26:38,960 There was a magical, special feeling in the building that night. 373 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:45,200 It was, it was like you were a part of a world record that you're only going to get to be 374 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,440 a part of it's at some point. 375 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,920 I've never felt like that at any other event. 376 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,800 There were, there were people crying. 377 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,000 It was just, it was special. 378 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:06,840 So and I just, I'm fortunate that I got to be a part of it. 379 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,160 And you know, I got to learn from it. 380 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,160 It's cool. 381 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,800 Also, my, my boss at the time, I said, like, what's our budget? 382 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,600 And he was like, you know, we really don't have a budget. 383 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:24,280 So I said, you mean we can do drones and fireworks and like, whatever I can come up with, we 384 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,360 can throw at this. 385 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,360 And he said, sure. 386 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:31,160 So that's, that's fun for me as well. 387 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:37,960 Like I, we've, we pulled out every, everything we could to make that event special. 388 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,520 So was that the, was that the first drone show? 389 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,840 That wasn't the first drone show that you guys had done, right? 390 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,400 It was, it was our first time ever doing anything with drones here at Nebraska. 391 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:55,760 So yeah, and even that aligned like six months before that, a company had come to us that 392 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,800 is just right up the road and said, Hey, we're starting this drone company and we want to 393 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,600 test it out. 394 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,700 So no, it was, it's, but I'll tell you to tribute to our fans. 395 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:08,880 Our fans are awesome. 396 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,000 They, they came out, they were loud. 397 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,200 They didn't complain that they may have had a bad seat for volleyball. 398 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,320 They just wanted to be part, you know, of this special night. 399 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,880 And man, it was magical. 400 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,440 What special content did y'all have on the jumbotron that night? 401 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,020 You know, Tyler Rice, who always works, he works in our house, Christian department kind 402 00:28:34,020 --> 00:28:42,520 of does a lot with volleyball, did an awesome, you know, kind of tunnel walk video for the, 403 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,520 for the girls. 404 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,080 So that was part of like, Hey, we want to incorporate the football tunnel walk into 405 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,040 the, into volleyball day. 406 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:58,600 Gosh, there was, there was just a lot of sort of celebratory historical type videos that 407 00:28:58,600 --> 00:28:59,600 night. 408 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,920 And then after the event, we had, we had a whole light show. 409 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,160 We had a drone show. 410 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,040 We had a fireworks show that led into our concert. 411 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,400 It was probably six minutes long. 412 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,920 So but yeah, there was all kinds of really good video content. 413 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:25,400 And then, you know, all kinds of content to help celebrate that, you know, that milestone. 414 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,840 We, we really tried to, it was five o'clock the night before the event, when we, when 415 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:36,120 I said like, look, that's our deadline to get the drone folks, the actual number of 416 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,680 tickets that were sold. 417 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:44,280 So it was, it was cool to get that from our team, get that to the drone folks, they programmed 418 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:51,720 it, they sort of flew them up in the sky and did the 92003 with the drones. 419 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,400 It was a world record for a women's sporting event at the time. 420 00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:01,220 So and I believe obviously still, still holds the world record. 421 00:30:01,220 --> 00:30:07,240 So let's get into a little bit of the rehearsals because you mentioned that and the structure 422 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,640 that you guys have to do for game day preparation. 423 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,520 Let's let's talk about that for a little while. 424 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,840 I'm a big rehearsal guy, probably learned that in the NBA. 425 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,520 You know, every, every game, if it's a seven o'clock game, we rehearse at four o'clock 426 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:29,600 with everyone on the team from cheerleaders to mascots to video board operators to audio 427 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,200 operators. 428 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,080 So it's just not call time at four. 429 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,720 That's rehearsal at four. 430 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,720 That's rehearse. 431 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,400 Yeah, we rehearse from about 430 to five. 432 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:48,760 But you know, it's your, your, you're part of a show, you know, and a lot of times there's 433 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:54,160 so many different moving parts and elements that that you that you got to rehearse it 434 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,160 and you got to try it. 435 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,480 You got to tweak it. 436 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,120 And then I also think it's just really important in this day and age to let other people's 437 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,240 eyeballs see see things. 438 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,860 We used to have a back in the day we had like a Friday meeting where we watched every piece 439 00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:14,360 of content in the Husker vision studio. 440 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:21,040 Now we kind of do that on the Dropbox zoom type deal platform where people can watch 441 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,880 it all and give feedback. 442 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:30,040 But and then again, Friday at one o'clock here, we'll go up and watch every single element 443 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,540 and play it back and monitor audio levels. 444 00:31:33,540 --> 00:31:38,440 And then we'll do it again tomorrow before Rutgers game. 445 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,760 We'll do it again in the morning and run through all the content. 446 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,000 So now I mean, man, rehearsing is is important. 447 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000 It's key. 448 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,920 We've got skydivers in tomorrow. 449 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,200 We're rehearsing with them here at noon today. 450 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,360 So but they won't actually are they going to rehearse jumping? 451 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:58,800 They'll do a practice jump. 452 00:31:58,800 --> 00:31:59,800 Yep. 453 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,960 They'll all do a practice jump figure out exactly where they want to land, how they 454 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,960 want to hit the ground, who's going to carry what flag. 455 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:17,920 So no, man, I'm a big practice makes perfect like rehearse it if and I also don't like 456 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:24,360 to play back anything that I get sort of last minute either, you know, I'm like, I want 457 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,360 to see it on the big screen. 458 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,360 I want to hear it. 459 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:33,320 I want to make sure the playback is fine once or twice before we ever run it in our venues. 460 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:41,000 And that's why you guys are so successful at Nebraska, because just like with Jeff, 461 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,060 attention to detail. 462 00:32:43,060 --> 00:32:45,360 You want to know how things are going to be. 463 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,720 You want to know how it's going to sound in the arena. 464 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,220 You want to know how it's going to sound in Memorial Stadium. 465 00:32:51,220 --> 00:32:52,600 You want to know. 466 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,520 So there's you're not leaving anything up to chance. 467 00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:02,620 Those that don't rehearse, those that don't practice, you're leaving yourself open to 468 00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:05,040 have disaster. 469 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:10,760 Virginia Tech has a mantra called a one day vacation. 470 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,400 And that's what they want to do with their with their fans that come in. 471 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,960 They want to have them relaxed. 472 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,800 They want to have them, you know, enjoy the game. 473 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,320 And they also want them to be entertained. 474 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:26,960 And it's just if you don't rehearse, if you don't practice, if you don't know that this 475 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,700 video is going to cut out at this point and then the cheerleaders need to do what they 476 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:35,820 need to do, you're going to be you're going to have downtime and you don't want to have 477 00:33:35,820 --> 00:33:42,920 downtime at a game, especially if the football team is needing their fans to be, you know, 478 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,400 loud and proud. 479 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,280 You don't want to have downtime. 480 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,280 So true. 481 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,200 By the way, Virginia Tech is on one of my it's my one of my bucket lists that I've yet 482 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,920 to see a game there. 483 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:56,920 You got to get to. 484 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:02,480 I've got a good friend, Brandon Hall, who just just went back to Virginia Tech. 485 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,680 So I'm going to lean on him one of these days. 486 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:11,440 But that's one of the parts of my job that I love is just going around and seeing what 487 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:17,280 everybody else does and seeing how they do it and and stealing their ideas as well. 488 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,280 Right. 489 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,280 That's right. 490 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,880 I mean, I don't know if it's it's if it's stealing or if it's like it's a what was 491 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:24,880 it the rip off? 492 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,880 What was that? 493 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,360 Brad rip off and duplicate, rip off and duplicate. 494 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:31,360 Yeah. 495 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,360 R&D. 496 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,880 You're not really stealing. 497 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,840 You're just ripping off and duplicating. 498 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,840 How is it? 499 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,240 How has it been working with the new coach, Matt Ruhl? 500 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:41,240 It's been great. 501 00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:50,240 I mean, Matt cares about every piece of his program from recruiting to nutrition to to 502 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:56,800 what music is being played and how we're how we're getting the crowd going. 503 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,560 We had a meeting with Matt this summer. 504 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:04,920 And, you know, Matt was like, hey, you guys can impact our game. 505 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,400 And here's what I'd like to see. 506 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:15,160 And we had really good dialogue about music and tempo and videos and timing and all that. 507 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:22,520 So, man, to have a head coach, it's like engaged in what we're doing and, you know, and gives 508 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,200 us constant feedback on what we're doing. 509 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,960 Has been awesome. 510 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,400 And Matt's the first one to say, man, I love that. 511 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,840 Or or say, you know, hey, that didn't hit. 512 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,760 You know, let's let's try something different. 513 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,920 So that to be honest with you, that's what makes our jobs like, you know, that's what 514 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:44,960 fuels us. 515 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:51,440 That's what makes our job so much fun is, you know, kind of seeing their reaction to 516 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,440 different things. 517 00:35:52,440 --> 00:36:00,240 So that's special for not only me, but our entire crew to know that that that's engaged 518 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:03,040 and is is on our team. 519 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,600 That's great to have him on your team. 520 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:10,320 I mean, are your kids Brady and Bailey, are they on the team or are they criticizing, 521 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,920 you know, what dad is doing or daddy could have done this better or how are they how 522 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,280 are they are they judgmental? 523 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,440 Because I know my kids are judgmental on things that I do. 524 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,600 My wife, my kids, all of them, man, they give me feedback all the time. 525 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:29,240 So but I love that they they get to attend the games like we did. 526 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,040 We did a light show. 527 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:36,200 We did a drone show and my family sits in their seats where they couldn't see the drone 528 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,120 shows kind of behind them. 529 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,320 So they were like, man, this stinks like we want to see the the drone show, dad. 530 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,760 So the other day we had to I said, well, all right, we'll come down to this spot at this 531 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,200 time so you guys can get the full the full effect. 532 00:36:52,200 --> 00:37:00,280 But no, they we I talk about different ideas with them all the time. 533 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:07,200 Like I have a freshman in high school and you talk about Tick Tock and trendy, you know, 534 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,880 I'm like, hey, what do you think of this idea? 535 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:17,200 So we started kind of a video this year with Will Compton, where Will comes on right before 536 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:24,840 kickoff and sort of does a WWE style hype video. 537 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,240 And I kind of threw that idea by my son and was like, he was like, yeah, I think that 538 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:30,240 would be great, dad. 539 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,440 Here, but try this. 540 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:37,400 So he usually pushes the limit a lot more than I'm comfortable with. 541 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,560 But now it's good having their having their feedback. 542 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:48,880 And it makes me happy to see that they're engaged and what dad's doing and give me music 543 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,400 ideas and keep me young. 544 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:59,880 So let's talk about the one idea that didn't work, because everybody has those those those 545 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:04,520 times where they play a video or they have an idea and they think it's going to work 546 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,000 in their in their arena stadium. 547 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,440 And it doesn't do you have a story like that? 548 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:17,040 Um, I have we've got many videos that just probably never worked. 549 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:25,760 But what I think is probably more important is just the timing of where those videos played. 550 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,560 You know, that's what I've learned over the years. 551 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,560 Like, if the video is bad, I'm not going to run it. 552 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,800 But if the video plays at the wrong time, then the video may not be bad. 553 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:47,960 But the video, you know, probably didn't go over as well as we wanted to. 554 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:52,480 And so timing is just timing is just critical. 555 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:58,160 We try to keep some of our lighter videos like, you know, feel like there's a good menu 556 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,880 for big screen production. 557 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,160 Like you got to have an interactive feature. 558 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,840 You got to have sort of a good music video. 559 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:15,040 You got to have a shuffle or some some sort of game that your fans can play along with. 560 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,520 You got to have some hype videos. 561 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:23,680 But if if it's late in the game in the fourth quarter and I'm running a shuffle like shuffle 562 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,520 is probably not going to go over that well. 563 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:26,520 Right. 564 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,680 So a lot of them just come down to execution, man. 565 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:36,440 A lot of the videos that are very dialogue heavy and that are maybe hard for people to 566 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:41,000 understand or, you know, they don't they don't go over that well. 567 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:48,680 If it's if it's two student athletes and there's no caption, there's no text on what they're 568 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:54,200 saying back and forth, then, you know, it'll get a golf clap. 569 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,080 And that's I love that about this industry. 570 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:03,240 Like we don't have to wait for YouTube views in order to see like, did this video perform 571 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:05,560 well or did people like it? 572 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:12,760 Did they comment like, you know, instantly when you play something, if it's good or bad. 573 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,920 That is so true, especially with, you know, ninety two thousand people right there looking 574 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,200 at the video. 575 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,200 You know if it's good or bad. 576 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,200 Yeah, for sure. 577 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:26,480 Because you're going to get a big roar or you're going to get that. 578 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:27,960 I've been doing this so long. 579 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:35,360 I'm experienced enough to know, man, is this a I always say like, is this a turd? 580 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:41,280 If it is like I can I can spot them pretty easily and go, OK, like, do we have to play 581 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,280 this? 582 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:49,560 If we do, then we're moving into a to a spot where it won't impact our our game, our fans 583 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,480 and even like the the heartwarming videos. 584 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,120 You have to play in those. 585 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,120 Definitely. 586 00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:02,000 You're just right, because if if the mood is up and you play something like that, you 587 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,360 know, if it's like, you know, unfortunate somebody is going through some type of medical 588 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,920 illness or whatever that can kill the mood in the stadium. 589 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:15,400 So you have to realize where, you know, you mentioned placement, where that video needs 590 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:22,400 to be, you know, where things are going to lift up and keep the momentum going. 591 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:23,840 One hundred percent. 592 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:29,680 And I would say if there's probably one thing in Nebraska we've done that we could do more 593 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,520 is place those in different spots like we. 594 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:39,280 We have a lot of presentations and we have a lot of honor, you know, that we honor people 595 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,280 during the game. 596 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:41,840 And you're right. 597 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:48,080 Sometimes they can they can take the wind out of the out of the crowd. 598 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:54,240 And so now it please me, you're right, is is so important. 599 00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:59,120 You mentioned earlier the the the light show that you all do. 600 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,400 Yeah, take me through that. 601 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,960 I'll watch some videos on there and the LEDs, the lights and how everything goes red. 602 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,960 It's it's awesome. 603 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:10,960 How did that come about? 604 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,920 First, I want to give credit where credit to do. 605 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:21,080 There's a guy on the Husker Vision staff, Kevin Raguse, who can has learned to program 606 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,600 our stadium lights. 607 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:30,160 So first and foremost, like that's without him being able to write code in order to control 608 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:35,080 each individual musco LED light in the stadium. 609 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,600 Like we we can't we can do that. 610 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,360 So it starts with Kevin. 611 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:41,360 We're going to stop right now. 612 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,040 We're just going to do this for Kevin. 613 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,040 Yes, for sure. 614 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,040 All right. 615 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,040 Thank you, Kevin. 616 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,040 All right. 617 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,040 You can continue. 618 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,040 He's amazing. 619 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:55,920 And he does it quick to like he can do this within a day or two days. 620 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,560 But Kevin programs the lights. 621 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,760 And then we just add all of these layers to that. 622 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:09,600 You pick the music, kind of pick a video or a track. 623 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,560 Kevin programs it to that. 624 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:17,680 We share that with our pyro guys on the field that do the light towers. 625 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,400 We share that with spirit. 626 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,120 Say how can you get involved? 627 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:28,560 Like, you know, we share it with our show light guys who may bring in spotlights. 628 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,240 We share with our drone guys. 629 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:35,200 They sort of program, you know, to that as well. 630 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,280 And then obviously all of the LED boards in the stadium were fortunate. 631 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:40,280 We have a ton of them. 632 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:46,200 And when you do different colors on them, they give off some some cool light. 633 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:51,160 Our pyro guys do a really good job of shooting up sort of ends and, you know, off of our 634 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,160 scoreboard. 635 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,160 So a total, total team effort for our light show. 636 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:04,240 But again, like we talked about earlier, rehearsing, sharing, you know, your vision, your your 637 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:12,040 sort of music, your track, and then changing it up all the time and like sitting down with 638 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,640 our team saying, OK, like this is the 400 sellout. 639 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,960 Like, how do we you know, how do we make this one better than the last one? 640 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,680 But yet how do we have a little piece of thunderstruck? 641 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:27,640 Because you know, that's become really popular with our fans. 642 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:34,920 So now I love I'm sure my team doesn't love it, but I love getting in there and throwing 643 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:43,160 out crazy ideas for our fourth quarter light show and then kind of just love watching our 644 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,160 fans react. 645 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,120 Well, that's what it's all about. 646 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,840 It's about experimenting. 647 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,840 Yeah, it's about being inspired. 648 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,760 And it's also about, you know, just taking a chance. 649 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,440 Yeah, 100 percent. 650 00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,160 That's what production is all about. 651 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,760 I mean, it's all about the almost like a call and response. 652 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,400 You know, I put this out here. 653 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,360 Let me see how you're going to respond back to it. 654 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,560 And I mean, and that's why I love production. 655 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:17,320 That's why I love all things video production with, you know, the from the jumbotron all 656 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,960 the way down to the field, all the way down to, you know, these things right here, which 657 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,200 are little jumbotrons. 658 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:23,960 I mean, yeah, right. 659 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,920 You mentioned earlier, like every six months is going to be something new. 660 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:32,080 So it's it's always pushing the envelope of what we can do and what we can create and 661 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,080 what we can become. 662 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:34,080 Yeah. 663 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,040 My staff brought me back these like bracelets from a Taylor Swift concert. 664 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,040 Right. 665 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:39,040 And they're like, let's do this. 666 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,880 Like, that's a that's a new that's another element. 667 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:43,120 That's a that's a new element. 668 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,440 I saw one of those at a at a presidential rally. 669 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,320 I went to a concert. 670 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,920 I went to a concert recently and I saw the bracelet and put it on. 671 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,240 And then it just started going off. 672 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:58,120 It scared me for half a second. 673 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:03,760 You're always thinking and pushing the envelope and then what the drone shows and what they're 674 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:04,760 doing. 675 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,160 I mean, I can I can. 676 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,860 It's amazing. 677 00:46:08,860 --> 00:46:13,520 My mind kind of explodes at times with with what is going to happen next. 678 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,960 I mean, with with A.I., with A.R., V.R. 679 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,840 I mean, are you all experiencing any of that right now? 680 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,400 A little bit. 681 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:22,400 I'm working on an idea. 682 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:27,520 I don't want to share yet, but I'm working on something that I'm going to test. 683 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:32,080 What's great about the university is I can test it in some of our smaller Olympic sports 684 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,160 and we're going to test it. 685 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,840 And if it goes well, we'll definitely adapt it to football. 686 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:44,440 So you asked me earlier something you said, like what missed? 687 00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:51,320 You know, we last year spent forty thousand dollars and brought in lasers like, you know, 688 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,240 and I'll be honest with you, like they sort of missed. 689 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:59,320 You needed you need smoke and you need you need the atmosphere in order to really make 690 00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,840 the lasers show up. 691 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,480 But like, but at least I know now. 692 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:14,560 So we did some specific designs out on the football field during the light show. 693 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,740 So we're always experimenting with with things. 694 00:47:18,740 --> 00:47:21,680 Sometimes they hit, sometimes they they miss. 695 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,840 Sometimes you need to adapt them a little bit. 696 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:31,160 But we are projecting on the field doing some laser projecting on the field. 697 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,720 We did it last year and that worked out. 698 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:42,240 But some of the other lasers we put up along every every 10 yards along the right in front 699 00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:43,240 of the fans. 700 00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:51,960 They went up and it was very concert idea and it didn't show up that well. 701 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,080 So it needed more like smoke. 702 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,080 Right. 703 00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:59,200 And I'm like, well, if I fill the I fill the entire bowl with smoke and then they come 704 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,200 out of the TV break, then I'm going to be in trouble. 705 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:03,200 Right. 706 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,200 Yeah. 707 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,440 How do you get rid of that smoke once you just put it in to do something real cool on 708 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:07,440 the floor? 709 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,720 How do you get it out real fast? 710 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:10,720 That would be challenging. 711 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:13,040 But you guys are going to figure it out. 712 00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:14,040 I'm pretty sure of that. 713 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:15,040 We'll try. 714 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,040 We'll try anything once. 715 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,800 You're you've been to idea conference. 716 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,800 It's like I've been to the idea conference. 717 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:30,440 How has that enriched your your perception of your job and what you do? 718 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:39,680 Man, it's just an amazing community of really good people who care about the industry and 719 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:47,640 care about each other and help each other and build each other up, share ideas with 720 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:48,640 each other. 721 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:53,880 And really, man, a rising tide like, you know, rises all boats. 722 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:59,600 Like I've watched everyone that attends idea over the I think I went to my first idea conference 723 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:08,000 in 1998, but I've watched just this industry grow and evolve and and, you know, and I love 724 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,000 it. 725 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,080 It's so much fun to. 726 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:19,400 I had a boss in Houston say like, what is this idea boondoggle you're going on? 727 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:20,720 And he challenged me. 728 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:24,560 He's like, write a write a page review of what you learned. 729 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,200 And I was like, oh, I like that. 730 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:33,280 And I go, trust me, I have no problem writing a page about what I learned at the idea conference. 731 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:39,560 Because like we just talked about, there's, you know, this industry is always evolving. 732 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:48,960 And even on the non the engineering type side, like we're now into IP routers and IP video 733 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:55,160 systems and and, you know, things are changing quickly. 734 00:49:55,160 --> 00:50:02,640 And I want to be knowledgeable and know what's going on in the industry in order to serve 735 00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:08,560 the folks that report to me and the departments that report to me in the best way. 736 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:16,600 So no man, ideas great, but more than anything, it's, it's great connecting with with friends 737 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:21,760 and learning from them and networking with them. 738 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:27,560 So there, some of the guys there that I met are the reason that I'm sitting here right 739 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:28,560 now. 740 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:33,360 They they I went to Houston and I honestly I was fresh out of college. 741 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:34,880 I didn't know anything. 742 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,640 And I started my Ed at Miami Heat. 743 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:42,840 I met Sergio and the bulls and I started like pounding them with questions. 744 00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:48,560 And they've, they've been a wealth of knowledge for me and helped me through every little 745 00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,320 hurdle that that I've had. 746 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,840 So and I wouldn't have met him without idea. 747 00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:03,760 Now, every conference that I've gone to, I've always come back with more fire, more inspiration 748 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:10,360 and just more knowledge and business cards and contacts from different people, you know, 749 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:17,080 to and also challenging myself to take the information back to where I was and to make 750 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,320 things better. 751 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:24,800 And that that that whole conference is just awesome for that. 752 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,040 I love the competitiveness as well. 753 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,960 Like I want to compete for the best big screen. 754 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:37,480 I want to win the GMA, you know, like I I told my guys the other day, like I'm tired 755 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,200 of Auburn winning every year. 756 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,040 Like let's step up our game. 757 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:48,080 Like we, you know, we have good people, we have good ideas, like let's let's elevate. 758 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:53,020 The problem is like every school is is elevating and it's very competitive. 759 00:51:53,020 --> 00:51:54,020 But I love that. 760 00:51:54,020 --> 00:51:57,960 I love that about the conference is very competitive. 761 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,440 And I mean, and yeah, Auburn does win a lot. 762 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,200 I think the Miami Heat win a lot. 763 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:07,720 I'm trying to think of who else the Houston Rockets win a lot. 764 00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:14,320 Yeah, some of the hockey stuff is is awesome. 765 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:21,000 I love I love hockey because there's like so much time in between, you know, intermissions 766 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,160 there to do cool things. 767 00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,560 So yeah, no, I love idea. 768 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,600 I think this year is in Boston and I've personally never been to Boston. 769 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:37,680 So I'm really looking forward to to go in there. 770 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,560 Brandon, I just appreciate your time. 771 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:49,200 I appreciate you making putting me on your schedule to be able to talk to me about game 772 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:54,880 day production, to talk to me about how you structure things and how you go about building 773 00:52:54,880 --> 00:53:01,200 teams and and the importance of using students and not always, you know, professionals, because 774 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,560 those students will become the professionals just like yourself. 775 00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,600 It's my pleasure. 776 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,080 Thanks for thanks for doing this. 777 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,640 It'll it's going to be fun to follow some of these podcasts. 778 00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,160 So it is. 779 00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:20,760 And I mean, the idea of on the jumbotron just came to me one day. 780 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:28,840 And I mean, I was doing a gig at a local school and I just kept people just react to seeing 781 00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,880 themselves on the jumbotron. 782 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:36,000 And I was like, but they have no idea the behind the scenes of what it takes. 783 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:42,160 And I was like, I understand the time, the dedication, the hours, the, you know, the 784 00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:47,680 creativity that you need to do this and to always keep it fresh. 785 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:52,040 And then the other cool thing about it is we get to represent our school. 786 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,840 We get to represent the places where we got our where we got our pieces of paper, our 787 00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,140 diploma, our degrees, our whatever. 788 00:53:58,140 --> 00:54:01,620 We get to represent them and tell the story. 789 00:54:01,620 --> 00:54:02,840 That is the other thing. 790 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:08,920 We're telling a story in real time that's bringing a legacy to what we're doing. 791 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:13,320 We're documenting things and we're documenting the teams and everything. 792 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:18,680 I mean, the drone show will be talked about for years. 793 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,320 Volleyball Day will be talked about for years. 794 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:23,640 And that's what it's all about. 795 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:31,600 It's about educating, creating, entertaining and setting memories for people that that 796 00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,400 they can that they can go back and draw from. 797 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,160 They may remember a score. 798 00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,880 They may remember a drive, but they're also going to remember them seeing themselves 799 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:42,880 on the jumbotron. 800 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,680 They walk away with those memories more than they do the game. 801 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:52,560 I always have parents tell me like they know their their son or daughter talks about being 802 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:57,800 held up for the Simba cam more than they or or seeing the mascot more than they did the 803 00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:58,800 winning touchdown. 804 00:54:58,800 --> 00:54:59,800 And those are cool. 805 00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,560 Well, again, my friend, I thank you for your time. 806 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:07,840 I thank you for being on this podcast and keep being creative. 807 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:08,840 Keep being pioneering. 808 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,320 I cannot wait for the idea that you didn't tell me. 809 00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:12,840 I thought we had a scoop. 810 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,920 I thought we had a scoop, but I cannot wait to see what's going to happen. 811 00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:21,560 Because I when the drone show went up, I mean, even Travis Hunter was talking about it. 812 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,360 Nebraska is a good team and they beat us. 813 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:24,360 Fair and square. 814 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:25,360 And we just got to come out and do better. 815 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,880 We got to play Colorado football and that's not Colorado football. 816 00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:29,920 No discredit to the team, good team. 817 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:30,920 They play a good ball. 818 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,680 But I want to give more credit to the fan base and the way they got the stadium set 819 00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:35,680 up. 820 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,000 They get you here from the time you step foot out your locker room to the time you get to 821 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,000 the field. 822 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,000 Our environment was top 10. 823 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:41,000 Yeah, I got to give it to them. 824 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,000 I was top 10. 825 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,000 The little light show in the fourth quarter. 826 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,000 That was good too. 827 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,000 I ain't even gonna lie. 828 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,000 That was a good little show, boy. 829 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:52,000 That fans was loud on third down when you break the huddle, when you get in the huddle. 830 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000 I can't even think to myself how loud it was. 831 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,000 Yeah, shout out Nebraska. 832 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:56,000 That was fun. 833 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,000 That was fun. 834 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,000 That was really cool. 835 00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,000 I was like, man, Coach Pram is watching the drones. 836 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,000 So that was good. 837 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,000 That was one of my top 10 moments just watching him. 838 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,000 I'm like, man, he's not coaching. 839 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,000 He's just looking around enjoying it. 840 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:04,000 So that was cool. 841 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:05,000 He's like, why didn't I think of the drones? 842 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,000 Why didn't I get drones on the Colorado? 843 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:07,000 But yeah, you guys are just excellent at what you're doing. 844 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,000 Thank you, man. 845 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,000 We got a great team here. 846 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,000 We really do. 847 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,000 It's not me. 848 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,000 I just, I'm not going to lie. 849 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:34,440 I just try to keep it all going in one direction, but we got an awesome team here and it's 850 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:35,440 fun. 851 00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:39,000 Maybe we can do a part two one day where we're sitting and talking to the team. 852 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,000 Let's do it. 853 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,840 The people that are being creative and pulling everything together. 854 00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:48,560 We have so many good creatives and good people here that you should do a little zoom call 855 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,280 with four or five of them. 856 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,520 And they know a lot more than I do. 857 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:54,520 We'll set that up. 858 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,000 We'll definitely set that up. 859 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,440 But again, thank you guys for being on the podcast. 860 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,520 We'll talk to you another time. 861 00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,000 See you, man. 862 00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:09,960 Thanks for watching another episode of On the Jumbotron Podcast with host Christopher Lee. 863 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:14,080 Make sure you like, share and subscribe. 864 00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:18,360 Follow us on Instagram at On the Jumbotron Podcast. 865 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,960 On YouTube, follow it on the Jumbotron. 866 00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:25,920 This podcast is produced by Great Shot Productions. 867 00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:30,240 Opening and break music is produced by DJ LL. 868 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:37,640 If you're interested in sponsoring the show, email us at OTJ Podcast, booking at gmail.com. 869 00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:43,800 Until next time, stay creative and humble and always entertain, inform and inspire.