This episode features my conversation with Kyle Crooks, the radio voice of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. Topics of discussion include:
- The guy from the gym that started the dominos falling for his career.
- Choosing to go to community college to start his career.
- Finding mentors and building real relationships.
- What he learned from a year in Minor League Baseball.
- The sequence of events that landed him a job for University of Florida.
- The biggest adjustment from a freelance schedule to being a team employee.
- How he handled his analyst being caught in traffic before his first ever soccer broadcast.
- The pair of binoculars he bought to call soccer from the highest point of a stadium.
- Dealing with frustration while working on his craft at Florida as a secondary broadcaster.
- The importance of maximizing every opportunity.
- Getting great tape from mock broadcasts.
- Experiencing the hiring process for the Nebraska job.
- Why he was the right fit for the position.
- Following in the footsteps of a beloved broadcaster who recently passed away.
- The importance of authenticity and being himself in that position.
- Dealing with the negativity of social media trolls.
- Building a giant list of descriptors and implementing them into a broadcast.
- Being energetic without being a homer.
- Using his Uber driver as a sounding board to get recon on Nebraska radio.
- The support of his family and the important piece of advice he received from his father before he passed away.
- The importance of knowing how to engineer and produce a broadcast, even when you don’t need to do it.
- Developing chemistry with a new analyst.
- His broadcast horror stories.
- His favorite broadcasters to listen to on an off day.
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