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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Welcome to the Carriker Chronicles,
00:09 the people show.
00:11 Checking the pulse of Husker Nation,
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00:14 Ladies and gentlemen,
00:15 I have a special guest with me today.
00:17 He played football at Lincoln East High School,
00:20 is one of the top recruits in the country
00:21 coming out of high school.
00:23 He played in 11 games last fall for the Big Red
00:26 with six starts,
00:27 including an electrifying 44 yard touchdown grab
00:31 versus Northwestern.
00:33 Now before I bring, it's Malachi Coleman,
00:34 before I bring him on real quick,
00:36 for those who don't know,
00:37 okay, most people do,
00:38 but for those who don't,
00:39 Malachi donates 100% of his NIL money
00:42 to kids in foster care
00:44 and all of the proceeds that Malachi receives
00:47 from his book, "Fly Like Kai"
00:49 will be donated to charity
00:51 and kids in the foster care as well.
00:53 And I wanna talk football,
00:54 I wanna talk about the book
00:55 and I wanna talk about all of that.
00:56 But first, let's bring on Malachi Coleman.
00:58 How you doing, my friend?
01:00 - I'm good, how are you?
01:02 - Dude, life is good.
01:03 It's like a heat wave outside.
01:04 It's a full, what, 12 degrees today
01:06 as we're recording this.
01:07 So, man, life's good.
01:10 Hey, real quick.
01:10 - I'm good, how are you?
01:11 - Yeah, man, let's talk a little football,
01:13 then I wanna talk about the book
01:14 and how people can contribute,
01:17 donate and help in the cause.
01:18 But first, man,
01:20 how was your first season at Nebraska?
01:22 Okay, the season for the team, as we all know,
01:25 was a bit up and down.
01:26 You gotta love what Matt Rule's done so far
01:28 this off season,
01:29 but you got to play in a lot of games,
01:31 you got to start six.
01:32 How was your first season of college football for you?
01:35 - Oh, I absolutely loved it.
01:37 These fucking times, absolutely,
01:40 but I mean, that's part of the development.
01:42 And just looking back and seeing my progress
01:44 and where I started in the beginning of the season,
01:46 and seeing where I ended,
01:47 I'm like years ahead of us,
01:49 where I thought I would be.
01:51 Especially with just getting on the playing time
01:53 with the unprecedented injuries that happened
01:55 and just being able to contribute to my team.
01:58 So I learned a lot,
01:59 not just to me, but to my teammates as well.
02:00 And I loved it.
02:01 So you can't depend on me.
02:04 - Did you have what some folks like to call
02:06 a welcome to college football moment?
02:09 Like for me, it was in practice,
02:11 a lovely offensive lineman named Nate Kolterman
02:13 hit me well after the whistle had blown,
02:15 drove me way out of bounds, smiled,
02:18 had a few choice words for me.
02:19 He was a senior, I was a freshman,
02:21 he jogged back to the huddle.
02:22 And I was like, oh, this is for fricking real.
02:24 Okay, that was my moment.
02:26 Did you have a moment like that?
02:27 And if so, what was it?
02:29 - I would honestly say my first one came in the game.
02:31 Probably the hardest hit that I had to do was
02:35 by the block of Michigan.
02:36 I had to crack first offensive play
02:38 of Michigan State linebacker, number 27.
02:42 I don't know what I was playing,
02:43 but he had no gloves on, no nothing.
02:47 He was just straight up out there.
02:49 And my first job was to go crack him.
02:51 I hit him with absolutely everything I had.
02:53 That man barely moved.
02:54 (laughing)
02:57 Yeah, I had about a 40 pound weight difference right there.
03:01 That boy just barely moved.
03:02 I'm like, yeah, this is for real.
03:04 Everybody out there like that.
03:05 - All right, man.
03:06 So what's the biggest thing you learned from year one
03:09 that you'll take with you
03:10 as you go into your second year of college?
03:12 - Everything's a mentality.
03:14 You know, the way you do everything
03:15 is the way you practice.
03:17 It just translates to games,
03:19 the way you do school is the way it translates to practice.
03:21 Like everything correlates with each other.
03:23 And if you slack in one department,
03:25 they ain't gonna help you in anything else.
03:26 So I'd say just learning the process
03:29 and sticking with it just helped me
03:31 to know it and translate everything to the field.
03:33 And I'm gonna keep doing that.
03:34 - Dude, I love that answer.
03:36 I'm actually gonna backtrack for a second.
03:38 I love that your welcome to college football moment
03:40 was a block.
03:41 'Cause most receivers would say some sort of catch
03:43 or going against a certain DB.
03:45 I think that just shows the mentality
03:47 of blocking and physicality that Coach Rule,
03:50 Coach McGuire are trying to instill
03:52 in the wide receivers in Nebraska.
03:53 And I think that's awesome.
03:54 So speaking of wide receivers Coach Garrett McGuire,
03:57 okay, as most people know,
03:58 he spent some time in the NFL.
04:00 He was the youngest coach in the NFL at the time,
04:02 which is kind of cool.
04:03 Now he's your position coach in Nebraska.
04:05 What's he like as a coach?
04:07 - He's intense, but it's intense love.
04:10 He wants nothing more than for you to succeed.
04:13 And it takes a little bit for you to see that sometimes,
04:16 especially coming in as a freshman.
04:17 I've never been approached like that before.
04:19 But now that I'm out right now,
04:22 I would want to be coached by anyone else
04:24 or like any other way.
04:26 'Cause he makes you spend extra time.
04:29 He makes you go back when you do stuff wrong.
04:32 He makes you get 10,000 catches.
04:33 Otherwise he's not even gonna take you to fall camp.
04:35 He has these high expectations of you.
04:37 But he just knows what you're capable of.
04:39 And he believes in you.
04:41 And there's no other senior coach in the nation
04:44 that believes in anybody as much as he believes in us.
04:46 And I absolutely love that.
04:47 - So we're early on in the off season so far,
04:51 but what's been Matt Ruhle's message to the team
04:54 so far this off season?
04:55 - The work starts now.
04:57 I mean, that's basically been there.
04:59 Everybody's still got that taste in their mouth.
05:00 Why?
05:01 What's next mentality?
05:02 What are you gonna do to get three points better?
05:05 Last time, like four or five games, about three points.
05:08 But what are you gonna do to make those three points
05:10 turn into seven points where it's opposite?
05:11 Where we're winning, you know?
05:13 So what are you going to do to make sure that we're on top?
05:17 Like, that's what it's coming down to.
05:19 - All right, man, we got three quarterbacks
05:20 in that quarterback room right now.
05:21 Dylan Raiola, Heinrich Harburg, Daniel Kaelin.
05:24 Okay.
05:25 What are your thoughts on these guys
05:27 in the quarterback room?
05:29 And what do you look forward to
05:30 when it comes to playing with these three guys?
05:33 - I love how each and every single one of them
05:34 is competitive.
05:35 And they bring a unique skill set to the table.
05:38 And I'm very interested to see how this spring's
05:39 gonna play out, 'cause I think it's gonna be fun
05:41 watching them battle it out.
05:42 - All right, man.
05:43 So you were here last year for winter conditioning.
05:46 Okay, there's a winter conditioning
05:47 that's gonna be going on here.
05:49 All right, what, for those at home
05:51 who don't know what winter conditioning is about,
05:53 or a freshman who's enrolling early this year
05:56 to do winter conditioning, what can they anticipate
05:59 or what can they expect from winter conditioning
06:02 with Coach Corey Campbell?
06:03 - It's gonna be the hardest workouts of your life.
06:05 (laughing)
06:07 There's gonna be no excuse that you don't walk out of there
06:12 better than you walked in, 'cause those workouts
06:15 are meant to make you better.
06:16 The way that you're getting fed by nutrition
06:18 is meant to make you better.
06:19 Everything is just, it sucks,
06:21 but it's going to make you better.
06:23 And it also determines your mindset,
06:25 just 'cause you get through every single workout
06:27 and it's like, okay, I did that.
06:29 Now I can do this.
06:30 And now I can just keep building on top of it.
06:32 And that's what I feel like I keep doing with the workouts.
06:34 - All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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06:54 All right, Malachi, I know it's very early on,
06:57 and this is a bit of a fun question, so to speak,
06:59 but in your opinion, what is this 2024 Nebraska football team
07:04 capable of next season?
07:06 - I think it's gonna come down to how we execute,
07:10 'cause we have all the time in the world,
07:12 and we execute.
07:14 I think y'all are gonna be very happy
07:16 with how we're gonna play.
07:17 - All right, last question, football related,
07:19 and then we're gonna get to the book
07:21 and things of that nature.
07:22 Now, it's a younger wide receiver room,
07:25 very talented, very young.
07:27 You guys got to play a lot last season.
07:29 There's been a couple of transfer portal additions
07:31 this off season from Wake Forest,
07:33 Jamal Banks in Texas, Isaiah Nair.
07:36 What are your thoughts on these veteran receivers
07:39 as they will be joining your wide receiver room this year?
07:42 - It only ups the competition,
07:43 but it also gives me somebody to kind of be learning from,
07:47 like how I can be my mentor,
07:49 'cause I have similar body types to him.
07:51 Jamal is 6'3", 215.
07:53 Isaiah, he's 6'4", 220.
07:54 Like, these are big body types,
07:55 so I'm gonna grow into,
07:57 I wanna see how they use their body to do their stuff,
08:00 so I can learn from them,
08:01 but I also wanna compete with them,
08:02 'cause I mean, I ain't just gonna sit back
08:05 and just, you know, although I'm older than you,
08:06 they got experience, like I'm gonna go compete.
08:08 I'm gonna make sure that if they get their job,
08:10 well, maybe that is because they're legit better.
08:12 - All right, man, so let's talk about your book,
08:15 "Fly Like Kai."
08:17 All right, so everything that you receive from this book
08:19 is gonna be donated to the foster care system.
08:22 Tom Osborne has signed 100 of these books.
08:25 He also wrote the foreword,
08:27 and of the 100 books that he signed,
08:28 50% will be going to teammates,
08:30 and 50% will be going to foster kids as well.
08:34 Talk to me about the inspiration behind the book,
08:38 and also where people can find it.
08:40 - So, honestly, it started with the author of the book
08:44 reaching out to me and showing me some of the work
08:46 that he's done with a couple other athletes,
08:48 and I absolutely loved the idea,
08:50 because I wanted to connect with, specifically,
08:52 kids a little bit more, so they can, like,
08:55 they can look up to somebody
08:56 in a different type of perspective.
08:58 I loved to read a lot as a kid,
09:01 but my mom got me into it, even though
09:04 it was a bit of a struggle to get me into it,
09:07 but I just want these kids to have something
09:11 that they can just keep, and just be like,
09:13 look at this person, if he can do it, I can do it,
09:15 and I want to be just like him,
09:16 like I wanna be a role model for as many kids as I can,
09:19 and just reaching out in any way,
09:21 whatever possible way I can, like, I wanna do it.
09:23 - So, I mentioned in a text with you before the show
09:27 that my mom was actually adopted,
09:28 so the foster care system adoption
09:30 hits very close to home with me as well.
09:34 Now, this is nine years ago, actually, today,
09:38 and I'm not sure when we're gonna release this interview,
09:40 we wanna do a great job with the post-edit
09:42 and everything like that, sometime in the next week,
09:44 but as of today that we're recording this interview,
09:47 nine years ago today, okay, was the day that
09:51 Miranda and Craig Coleman adopted you
09:54 and your sister, Nevaeh,
09:55 so I thought that that was just kinda cool,
09:57 but I heard a little bit of a story,
09:59 and I wanna see how much validity there is to it,
10:01 because what I was told is that when your family found out
10:05 that Coach Osborne was gonna write the foreword
10:07 for the book, it was just kinda like a shocking moment
10:11 of almost inadvertent silence,
10:14 like it was just like a dead silence,
10:16 'cause I think your parents in particular
10:18 were so surprised and so excited,
10:20 they were almost shocked into silence.
10:22 How true is what has been relayed to me?
10:25 Is that actually how it happened?
10:27 - I mean, yeah, they were definitely shocked
10:29 a little bit.
10:31 I see Coach Osborne, I was having a practice on him,
10:33 this is just the man that oversees us,
10:35 and he's an amazing dude,
10:38 but they don't get to interact with him like I do.
10:41 They just watch this man coach them in the 90s
10:44 and bring them to glory, what we call today's still,
10:47 so for them to be emotional like that,
10:50 and to be a person like that,
10:52 to be able to do this is just awesome.
10:54 - All right, so there's also a book
10:57 that on the Ping Pong page is signed by Coach Matt Ruhl.
11:00 Now I found this book online,
11:03 and I couldn't help but notice
11:04 that it's for sale for a penny,
11:07 so I spoke to the man who wrote the book,
11:08 he's like, "Well, Adam, I'm not technologically savvy,
11:11 "really we're gonna auction it off,"
11:13 'cause I was gonna make a joke about Ruhl's book
11:15 being sold for a penny,
11:16 but it's really gonna go for auction.
11:18 But here's my question,
11:19 how good is Matt Ruhl at ping pong really?
11:22 How good is he really?
11:23 - It's such an odd thing to be good at,
11:25 but he is a stupid good at it.
11:26 (laughing)
11:29 He'll go through anybody on the team.
11:31 That's like maybe one or two people,
11:34 I can actually compare him to him,
11:35 I think it was one of them, he was really good.
11:38 But yeah, he's legit.
11:42 - All right, man, I'm not half bad,
11:43 I'll have to challenge him someday.
11:44 Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first,
11:47 Matt Ruhl is stupid good at ping pong, and I love that.
11:49 All right, ladies and gentlemen,
11:50 I'm going to post a link to the book
11:53 in the comments below this interview
11:54 on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, okay?
11:58 And it's gonna link directly back
11:59 to what the Coleman's are doing to the Fly Like Kai book.
12:02 I'm also gonna put it on the website or email list, okay?
12:05 And everybody, get out and support this book, buy it, okay?
12:09 Buy it for a kid you know, buy it for a birthday present.
12:12 If you're a kid, you should be asking for it.
12:13 Like it's a great book, it supports a great cause.
12:16 And until next time, Husker Nation, go big red.
12:18 And always remember to throw the ball.
12:20 (growls)