Leave it to a freelance TV reporter to produce some never-before-broadcast, behind-the-scenes video related to Nebraska football.On Saturday's edition of the "KXVO 15 10:00 News" (Cox Channel 11), anchor Suzy Stark introduced a story about former Nebraska football player Aaron Taylor and his Scarlet and Cream Letter Club restaurant. Included in the story were clips from the Huskers' pre-game "psyche up" videos created by well-known former team psychologist Dr. Jack Stark. And yes, he is related to her.
"(My dad) came up with the idea for the psyche ups," Suzy Stark said. "He got them into a compilation, and I believe he gave Aaron a copy."
Jack Stark worked with the Huskers for 16 years before leaving the program in February of 2004, following the firing of former Coach Frank Solich. He continues to work in sports psychology today as a consultant with NASCAR and the UNO hockey team.
Though Stark is no longer at Nebraska, the football team still utilizes a modified version of the psyche up tapes to help motivate players for games.
The video shown during Saturday's story on KXVO included clips from the mid to-late 90s, including one showing former Husker defensive tackle Christian Peter yelling, "We are the best team in America!" as heavy metal music plays in the background.
Watching the barrage of highlight clips - many of them showing the Nebraska "Blackshirt" defense sacking quarterbacks or leveling bruising hits on receivers - it's not hard to believe the videos were a big source of motivation.
"When you're out there kicking their ass, just remember that you're national champions and carry yourself that way," says one player in a clip. In another, a player screams, "We're going to kill these guys. We're the Blackshirts. We have something to prove."
Suzy Stark said she came up with the idea to share the special video after talking it over with a producer and photographer, who were helping her brainstorm ideas for a Nebraska football-related story.
Stark is freelancing for KXVO and sister station KPTM (Cox Channel 10) while she wraps up work on a masters degree in sports broadcasting. Her experience includes internships at CNN's worldwide headquarters in Atlanta and in the promotions department in WOWT (Cox Channel 8).
She has also been a sports anchor/reporter/producer at the national headquarters of Rivals.com in Nashville and sports reporter and photographer for several FOX affiliate stations in Minnesota and North Dakota. As an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she worked for the HuskerVision television network.
3 comments:
Wow! Is she ever smokin' hot!
I'm going to start tuning in.
Masters in broadcasting is worthless enough, but "sports broadcasting?" I guess she plans to teach someday. I've never of heard of a Rivals TV network.
Rivals.com has video streaming. They used the have female anchors for sports stories.
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