Late last season, Greg Sharpe entered the Nebraska football radio booth as a pinch hitter for Jim Rose for the final three football games. A few months later, Sharpe was officially named the new play-by-play man for Nebraska.

Greg Sharpe grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Kansas State, and from '96 to 2002 he was the voice of the Wildcats. But he turned in his Kansas State purple for Husker red, and 44-year-old Sharpe said the transition has gone flawlessly.

"It's been great. The fans have been phenomenal. What my perception of Nebraska from the outside it has been magnified by getting here, how incredible it is and how much passion the fans have for Big Red sports," said Greg Sharpe, NU play-by-play announcer.

What can Nebraska fans expect to hear when they tune into the radio this Fall? "I really want to bring to the folks a high-energy well-informed entertaining broadcast," he said.

"I pride myself on being very prepared, very informed so I really want to inform the audience and entertain them as well.

Sharpe said he comes from a colorfully "split" family. Greg and his brother wore Kansas State purple. His father boasted KU blue and his mom is a proud Nebraska graduate.

"I certainly have some red in my family tree with my mother," Sharpe said.

After spending 20 years in Topeka, the time was right for Sharpe, his wife Amy and two young daughters to move North of the border.

"It's a great opportunity, and one that I might be willing to kind of relocate my family, and Nebraska was always one of those. So when the opportunity presented itself it just seemed like a natural fit for me to come on up," Sharpe said.

Former Huskers Matt Davison and Adrian Fiala will join Sharpe in the booth this Fall. "I cannot wait for that final Saturday in August to arrive at the stadium and know that it's the beginning of a new era for Husker football with Bo Pelini, and I think most Nebraskans would agree that that day can't get here soon enough," Sharpe said.

In addition to his football duties, you can also hear the two-time Kansas broadcaster of the year doing Husker baseball broadcasts as well.