Mike Riley spoke for nearly 30 minutes at his season-opening press conference. We pulled out the greatest hits for you as the Huskers get ready to finally “play in the game” for the first time in 2017.

Derek is a newbie on the Hail Varsity staff covering Husker athletics. In college, he was best known as ‘that guy from Twitter.’ He has covered a Sugar Bowl, a tennis national championship and almost everything in between (except an NCAA men’s basketball tournament game… *tears*). In his spare time, he can be found arguing with literally anyone about sports.