Corn Nation: for Nebraska Cornhuskers fans

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, there's no Jon. There's no Todd.It's just Greg.We apologize in advance, and we appreciate your loyalty to the show.That being said, this episode is a mailbag episode, where we asked you to submit questions, and you did. Well...one of you did. And I turned that into an episode.But there's also a little women's basketball talk after the Huskers lost (WHAT?!?) to Penn State.The question of the week: Who has the brighter upside in 2022 and beyond...Nebraska or Texas?Find out in the audio or video versions, provided for your convenience. Be sure to subscribe to the new Corn Nation Podcasts channel so you never miss an episode.GBR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week, the Five Heart Podcast was being recorded while Nebraska was winning its first conference game of the season, defeating Minnesota. And we start the show by showing some love to the oft-maligned Nebrasketball Head Coach Fred Hoiberg.Todd thinks there are some among you who think Nebraska should hire Rick Pitino.Greg believes that while perhaps national media shapes public opinion (think politics), it is public opinion, even if it’s the vocal minority, that determines which way local sports media blows.And also in this episode, while it’s not completely Husker Athletics-related, we hear a little bit of Todd’s origin story. For example, do you know that Todd wrestled at the Division I level? Find out where and how he ended up at Nebraska, where he eventually met Jon and his liver hasn’t been the same since.Husker Women’s Bowling will be the first bowling to be televised on the Big Ten Network at the end of this month.And we wrap up the show with just a little baseball talkSo as always, GBR and tell your friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg, Todd and I get together to discuss the results of National Signing Day. Nebraska pulled in two four-star recruits on the last day, giving them quite the number of four star recruits when you include the transfer portal players.This is a roster that should win a lot of games.Unfortunately, I said the same thing last season.What’s going to be different this year?New offensive coaches. A special teams coach.Are the new coaches on the offense going to come together and work together as a team? Will everyone get along?Nebraska now has seven scholarship running backs:Rahmir Johnson
Jaquez Yant
Anthony Grant
Gabe Ervin Jr
Markese Stepp
Emmett Johnson
Ajay Allen
Which one of those running backs can get 1500 yards? Which one can get 1000?Nebraska has quite the number of receivers. Which of our receivers is 1000 yard receiver? TThat and much more is what was discussed on this episode of the Five Heart Podcast!Please subscribe and go to our new YouTube channel just for podcasts and subscribe there.Subscribe everywhere!!Send us free money!!!Thank you. I love you too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we sit down once again with college football guru Steven Godfrey. Steven is a long time contributor to SB Nation and other periodicals such as Athlon. He is currently working with SB Nation’s Secret Base and The Split Zone Duo Podcast.In today’s episode the 2021 college football season which brought back a lot of normalcy to the sport post the COVID outbreak. We go over the ups and down along with what the future of the sport might hold.We also jump into the recent development of the Big Ten possibly getting rid of of football divisions and what implications that could bring to the league.Finally, we of course talk about our beloved Huskers. The good and the bad along with what 2022 might bring.To check out more of Seven you can go to Secret Base for all of his great contributions there and the Splitzone Duo for all of your in depth college football needs. I would recommend joining the Patreon page for the last one if you truly love college football. There you will get extra in depth episodes. You can also follow him on Twitter at @38Godfrey.Please Subscribe!Be sure to download and subscribe to our podcast on whatever platform you prefer (that way you won’t miss next week’s very special episode), and you’ll also get all of the other great, but not quite as great, Corn Nation Radio podcasts as well.Follow Patrick on Twitter at @PatrickGerhartFollow Corn Nation on Twitter at @CornNationLeave a Review!You could go out on the Apple podcast app and leave a review for us as well or send us feedback by making a comment on this article.Please Listen And Share!If you don’t feel like subscribing, you can listen in the player below. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, Greg, Todd, and Jon talk about the transfer portal, its pros and cons. This year, at least so far, Nebraska has really benefitted from the transfer portal. But Todd is curious as to how many athletes enter the portal and never land at a school.So while Greg didn’t intend for the transfer portal talk to dominate the conversation, it did occupy the most time.And while we recorded this before the Husker men’s and women’s basketball teams were in action Thursday, we had a pretty good idea of the outcomes.But Husker wrestling took down a higher-ranked opponent in the Wisconsin Badgers before also beating Northwestern.At the end of the episode, Todd talks fondly about the late Meat Loaf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg is out due to Dad duty, but Jon and Todd get together and discuss the recent news and addition to the program.Nebraska picked up quarterback Chubba Purdy. Who is Chubba Purdy? Why is he named Chubba?Running back Anthony grant has joined the program through the transfer portal as has Javier Morton.We discuss the the big questions:Is the transfer portal the preferred way of building a team from here on out?Should Nebraska play Northwestern in Dublin, Ireland for the first game of the 2022 season?Mark Whipple has had an impressive start, getting two highly sought after quarterbacks to come to Nebraska within his first month on the job. What more can we expect?I take Todd down some rabbit holes to the edge of an abyss where neither of us want to be. It’s fun! Have a listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the Five Heart Podcast, Jon, Todd, and Greg talk about some of the new acquisitions for the football team, both the players and the staff. Mind you, this was before we had a new RB coach on Thursday. So...sorry.Todd has a couple good rants. Greg is repping some Steelers gear since they’re in the playoffs. And Jon is on Twitter too much.All in all...welcome to the off-season. We’ll try to update you on basketball, but there’s another podcast for that...somewhere.Mostly it’s more lamentations about Scott Frost and Trev Alberts. It’s a FUN episode. Be thankful Todd’s going to give up drinking next month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Corn Nation Radio! It has been awhile but we are back with our interview series for 2022.In today’s podcast we sit down with Wescott Eberts of the SB Nation site Burnt Orange Nation. Wescott gives us his thoughts on current Husker and former Longhorn Quarterback Casey Thompson.Casey is a big get for the Huskers and should play in nicely once spring practice starts up for the Big Red.Please Subscribe!Be sure to download and subscribe to our podcast on whatever platform you prefer (that wy you won’t miss our next week’s very special episode), and you’ll also get all of the other great, but not quite as great, Corn Nation Radio podcasts as well.Follow Wescott on Twitter at @SBN_Wescott and at www.BurntOrangeNation.comFollow Patrick on Twitter at @PatrickGerhartFollow Corn Nation on Twitter at @CornNationLeave a Review!You could go out on the Apple podcast app and leave a review for us as well or send us feedback by making a comment on this article.Please Listen And Share!If you don’t feel like subscribing, you can listen in the player below. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Egad.I, Jon Johnston, finally returned to the podcast after having been in Texas for a few weeks previous. I spent some of my time living in a RV in my brother’s yard in Dallas. It was a much better experience than staying in his house where he insists anything below 76 degrees will cause hypothermia.When I set the zoom meeting up for the podcast, I jokingly referred to it as “Return of the King”, which as you know, is one of the books of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now Greg named the podcast that. And now this article is named that. And here we are.Greg, Todd, and I get together and do an update on Husker sports. There’s many additions to the coaching staff, new players and I sat in a RV thinking a lot about what my perspective is on Scott Frost as our head coach.I am on record as saying Scott Frost needs to be fired. I would be happy to be wrong, but I don’t think whatever changes Frost has made will save his job next season.I thought a lot about this. I ask myself, “What If I’m Wrong” and we have a decent discussion about that.I wonder what would happen if Scott Frost just left the offense alone like he clearly did the defense. We have a decent discussion about that.While in Texas, I became convinced I need to buy 27 guns. And I talk about a trip to Waco, Texas. And Virtual Reality headsets.We do updates on Nebrasketball, women’s basketball kicking , and our hope for baseball season.Give it a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices