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Episode 5.52: The Best 15 Minutes · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Return of Boors podcast March twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. Huskers are still
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winless in the NCAA tournament. Hunters are nicky Austin Rose Code of Free Tech
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Guys, Quick question off the top. Have you guys ever had the spicy
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Kso funyans that just came out? I have not. I can't say I'm
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a big funion eater. The best chips I've ever eaten. I love funions,
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KSO, I love spicy. You put it all together, it's phenomenal.
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Must get in the form of a funion. I just I have my
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doubts. Mmm. I'm sitting here munch on a bag right now as we
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speak. I also recommend a double crunch ruffles, honey mustard ate a whole
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bag earlier. Oh man, how'd that combined with your mile time that you
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got done? I'm done running miles? Done? Paid it off? Yep,
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I'm done. What were you running miles for? Last year? The
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heat beat the Celtics and I bet my buddy you have to run a mile
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a week until you get under sevent ten minutes. Well, I've been running
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a mile ever since then, and you got this weekend. I paid it
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off, I'm done. You got under seventy ten. Huh No, No,
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I didn't buy it buy out. Oh my god, yeah, I
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was done. Well, you could have gotten there. He would never have
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gotten there. Not a chance. I'm not running another mile of my life.
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I'll tell you that. I will say this. A lot has happened
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since our March Madness preview of the bracket week and a half a good so
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let's it's gonna be obviously mostly basketball talk, but gosh was the new ad
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stuff that all came out, That's all that was when that was right after
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we recorded the pod. Yep, So Wednesday happens or sorry, Sunday happens.
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We get announced a new athletic director in Troy Dannon, who comes from
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the PAC twelve, Washington from for about what eight months it was six months?
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Eight months, six months I believe before that was at Tulane hired Willie
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Fritz, who has turned that football program around. And yeah, that all
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came before Nebraska plays their first game. And that's obviously very big news at
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a very I guess unique time, and it came very quick after Trev leaves
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for a and m so initial reaction, I mean I was like, all
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right, let's see what this guy's about. Well, in this first however
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many hours, he goes and speaks to the football team in Lincoln, and
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then he's in Memphis for the first round game on Friday, and then we
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hear him talk just recently over the last couple of days in his introductory press
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conference and kind of explain himself what he's about. I like the guy,
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like, I'm not like over the top eight. You know what. Here's
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the thing with that directors they have a very big but also a very little
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minimal impact I guess on the results of games, but they have a very
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big piece as to how you get there. And that's with any business or
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any organization. Leadership matters as we're seeing at the University of Nebraska, and
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I think getting somebody that knows what they're doing and has a strong passion for
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what they believe in one I guess know what they believe in, and then
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being able to get the program the university in that direction, I think is
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very important. And it seems like we have a guy that fits that mold.
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I thought Trent fit that mold when he came into so as initial opening
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gut check of Troy Danner. How much how much more did he make coming
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here than Washington. I actually have not tuck into the money side of things,
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but I'm guessing obviously more. He was not at Washington very long,
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so there clearly was a big incentive. He's from Iowa, so he is
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getting back to the Midwest, coming back closer to home. I don't know,
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Austin, you're in the dark. My internet can actually has questionable upstairs.
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No, I feel good about the like, yeah, you said coming
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back Midwest. Honestly, Trump did a pretty good job beliving on decent groundwork.
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You know, Amy was extended, Fred was extended, Rules got along
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contract, boltender long contract, and Cook's going to be here as long as
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he wants. But those extensions came under the interrom That's what makes it interest.
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Yes, so all he has to do is fundraise and be likable and
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keep his head coaches happy. At this point, Yeah, and it seems
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very I guess, straightforward, but at the same time like we're in an
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error. As we've talked about of sports, especially college football, but of
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nil transfer portal. You have to be and know the right people. And
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from his background, it seems like he's very invested in all these different football
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committees, the Division one transformation committee, Like he has that resume of what
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you want to see out of an AD, So again, overall very positive.
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I also liked the way he spoke. I thought he's very direct.
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I thought he was very passionate. So I think those are all positive.
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But then again this goes back to my comment, I just don't having a
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great AD does not translate to wins on the court, on the field.
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It helps, it does help keep your you know, your talent around your
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talent, and yes, especially with NIL like you have a lot bigger influence.
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I think the direction of a university with what they believe in. And
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obviously Trev's direction was very different than what some of the other people at the
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top thought, so we will see. It sounded like Troy was almost what
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they made it sound like, clicked from the get go and love at first
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sight and let's roll with it. Sometimes ads like an offensive lineman. If
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you know their name, it's not good. It's not a bad, terrible
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way to put it. It is interesting that they hired an AD before the
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president. That's that part still does kind of I do find it still interesting.
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Yep, and it has that officially been named or I know the reports,
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we're all the lead candidate, nothing nothing of right, like, nothing
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definite, but the lead candidate was out there, So yeah, that is
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that is interesting. But I also think you're athletic director, especially when it
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comes athletics. We're in the know a lot more on that anyways, just
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as media and entertainment value, I don't think there's as much there with the
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president, but it was it was very interesting to hear how quick That was
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the first thing that I thought, without knowing anything but singing the guy's name
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was I don't know who this is and he's from the PAC twelve. I
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was like, oh shit. And then it turned out not another Bill Moose,
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which, to be fair, our last ad came from the Summit League,
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so yep, pack told a step up, barely but a step up
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and Dak Yeah, you're right, he did play for a title football.
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It was it was interesting to hear, Oh god, why am I forgetting
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his name? Washington coaches now at Alabama did Bor Yeah, kylen Bor like
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his comments about when they hired Danon like it seemed very similar to rule like
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like the direction that he believed in and and then Caylen obviously gets the job
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at Alabama, which who wouldn't take that? So did you hear Fred Hoiberg's
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comments on the Royce troy Is higher, which were, uh, so he
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used to ref so before he was the a D at Tulane, he was
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the a D at Northern Iowa. Before that, he was in charge of
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like the Iowa State girls basketball something. And but before that he used to
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ref Iowa high school boys basketball. And he apparently reffed some of Fred's games,
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and so Fred gave him hope he's a better ad than he was a
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basketball ref or something like that. That's pretty good. Wow, that's a
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jump from the women's whatever he did there. The a D. I mean,
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just just thinking of Nebraska high school athletics. To you, if you're
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if you're you're you're pretty high up in the n s A A in Iowa
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whatever the Iowa equivalent is like, if you're in charge of a lot of
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that stuff. So I mean, that's not to me Awa, Yeah,
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but it seems like a good dude. And so then let's fast forward here
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to Friday when I went down to Memphis, and I'm glad I didn't you
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still should have. It was a blast, And I'll get more into the
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details of the scene in the takeaway. But we go there. We go
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to this restaurant. First place that we sit down at and pretty big restaurant,
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pretty well known in Memphis, a barbecue place. They say, yeah,
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I go to the back, like there's a bunch of tables back there,
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there's like multiple floors like or whatever. Go to the back, find
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an open table. We sit down. Sure enough, two tables over is
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Troy Dannon and Chris co Borick and a bunch of other people eating in that
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inner circle two tables over and then all of their kids at the table next
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to them in between us. So we're like, huh. So we sat
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there and basically launch at the barbecue plays right next to our new ad and
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in our president didn't go and say anything to them, but the place was
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filled, Like the restaurant itself was like eighty percent Husker fans like trying it
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out, it was. It was pretty pretty incredible, Like I can't think
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of a restaurant in Nebraska that would be comparable how big it was. But
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it was a big place and it was filled with Nebraska fans at noon on
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the day before the game. The day we played, that looked like a
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hell of a scene down there. Before the game, I listened to the
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Mismatch podcast which is on the Ringer and it's like a national NBA podcast,
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and one of the guys is a Memphis guy, and he said it was
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just crawling with freaking corn Huskers it And so, as you guys know,
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I've been to a lot of road games and they've seen Nebraska fans take over
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road games. This is obviousally eight neutral sites where there were eight teams at
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the site. Now one of those is like Longwood and colegates, like,
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I get it, but there were teams playing, so Clemson, New Mexico
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were kind of going on at the time, Baylor was down there, Texas
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A and m obviously Houston. Like I'm not over exaggerating when I was like
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ninety five percent of the fans that you saw walking around were Husker fans on
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the streets, restaurants, bars. The setup they have with the arena and
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Beale Streets is absolutely perfect for that. You could ask for it's right,
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I mean, on the same block and it just yeah, flooded with Husker
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fans everywhere. The main bars couldn't stand in because there were Husker fans everywhere.
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We saw probably less than five A and M fans, and I'll bet
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you six hundred Husker fans. I mean that's not an over exaggeration of what
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that scene was like down there in the afternoon leading up to the game.
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Was on them on Trev. Trev did make an appearance by version by version
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of a piece of paper that got taped to the main street poll on Beale
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Street that said Trader Trev Nice. I mean it was, I mean right
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on the corner like video I took a video is pretty funny, but yeah,
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it just the experience itself was like one of the best I've been on
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I will say, on a road game and it's for a basketball game.
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And the arena itself. I'm not sure if everybody cares about the whole experience,
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but like it was ninety percent field. Of the people that were there,
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ninety percent of them were Husker face. Now, the arena is probably
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still about half field, little over half field, but it was Husker dominant.
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And those first seven eight minutes, oh god, well, I'll always
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have those first Oh my god, it was some of the best sentiments in
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my life all and at the game, like I've never reacted, not just
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me, all the Husker fans, Like you know, you go excited for
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football, like you'll jump up and down for an amazing catch or a touchdown,
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like you know how that goes. Just imagine doing that straight for like
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fifteen minutes. We were in the end zone and it was I mean,
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it was pure euphoria down there. I yeah. So yeah, wherever you're
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watching the game, I'm sure you got that same. Just people jumping around,
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screaming, going thus and then at the game, obviously you're cheering and
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yelling and on defense just screaming at the top of your lungs and like it
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was just the the that fifteen minutes you'll remember forever because that obviously, like
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I said, football, it's a played then a play, So you'll cheer
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for one play. Basketball, you'll cheer for a play, and then another
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play happened like right away, then another on right away, another one right
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away. It just constant and there's no time to like stop and think,
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like you're just you're just reacting constantly and it was great. It went like
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we have all the hype around case say that just like and many varies three
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threes in the first state minutes like it just was nuts and then what happened
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Hunter, That's all I wanted to share because then we just sat there.
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Then all my feelings of road games like it came back, and I just
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think we because you went to be honest, I think that's don't don't worry.
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I've heard that over that I'm the reason. I probably am. I
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also bet on it. That didn't help. I did bet on A and
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M like I have the whole year, so that I can't give that a
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reason why we lost. But I thess I couldn't have the energy. Oh
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my, I'm not kidding out the most fifteen minutes of watching game I've ever
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had, Holy and I where I listened to a couple of the other Husker
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recap pods, like the one I the Vision or the the Analogy. I
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really like it was like a classic movie any you think of any classic like
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true like not comeback story, but just building from the ground up and all
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this built up frustration and and like set up perfectly with all the way it
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was gonna go and the fans and like you get to the ending and then
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all of a sudden, it just collapses. And like the feeling was like
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Case, I mean Case doesn't speak great English, as we know, just
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kept saying the words sad in this boast game like like bingo, Like it
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was just sad. You weren't mad, you weren't like you were just sad,
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Like you weren't even depressed or disappointed. You just you just felt that
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it's not how you went. It was a great year. It was a
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great team. You watch the the all of or this is for us video
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Derek Walker m hm after the game, and I, you know, a
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little emotional. I was like, man, what a good ride. It
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was a good team, it was a good year. We just our defense
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just didn't get it done and their offense was freaking on fire. They couldn't
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miss well. And yeah, I don't want to relive the entire game on
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how it went. But like I was bored last week, So what did
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I do? I put together a scouting report or just a high level summary
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of A and M on what they had and what they do well. And
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you can obviously go and read, but I'm like, I want to know
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what each player does, Like I want to know everything about him. So
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when we get there, like, I want to know this is going well
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or not well. You start the game and Wade Taylor is answering fucking everything.
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He's a point shooter, which again is not it's not bad, but
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that's not good for Division one athletes. Like, no, forty percent for
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Division one college is good. So shoot four four, I'd still say that's
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an average. But he was their best three point shooter. So I was
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pissed that he was getting so many looks because he was their best one like
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he was, and we were letting him get looks. And that was what
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he did in the SEC tournament. That's how he's gotten hot. So I
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was pissed at that. But then to open the game, they have Solomon
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Washington, who's like a twenty four percent three point shooter, Buryer three four,
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he hit twelve three pointers all year long. Yes, and then Obaseeci
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number thirty five, the lefty, he buries two or three in times that
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I'm like, okay, we're coming back, we're getting there. Then he
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buries one. Then another guy that does not shoot it well at all,
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so big shot. Well, they were thirteen for twenty three on a team
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that shoots twenty six percent. I think seven point shooting team in the tournament.
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I believe three hundred and fifty second out of three hundred and sixty three
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in the country on the year. Like that sucks it just again, it's
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just sad, Like you don't game plan for that. Your game plan to
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let them shoot those threes and stack the paint to prevent them from using their
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athleticism to get to the and everybody, well, and everybody knows that,
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like including A and M. They know they don't play that well. They
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also know they're hot. We everybody knew they were hot offensively like what they
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did in the SEC tournament. Then you watch them turn around and play Houston
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and offensively they didn't shoot it as well, but like they still had a
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strong offensive performance against Houston, and Houston's more athletic than so A and M
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was a buzz side. I was scared of the matchup when I saw it,
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like it just it was scared. You look at some of the other
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nine seeds and eight season teams around there, you thought, maybe we could
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have got a better draw, But that's what the tournament is. You're going
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to get a tough team, and that's what happened. It's it. It's
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it just sucks that, like you said, with the team that we have
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this year just felt like a storybook ending and we didn't get it done.
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And like it can tell from all the guys just it was sad. It
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was just like, dang it. If you told me that case was going
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to start four for four for three and we were gonna have twenty points in
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the first seven minutes of the game, and we score eighty five points,
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I would say we win that game ten times out of ten. And it
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just tells you how hard it is to win well a game, but several
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games in the tournament against top notch talent day in and day out in that
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tournament. The last thing about the game that I thought was an interesting take
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that I heard, but also I mean, really really agreed. It's from
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moving forward to Nebraska basketball, Obviously, Fred Hoiberg has turned this thing around
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in a very short amount of time in the last year and a half.
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Prior to that, when Fred even was here, it was the worst Nebraska
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basketball has ever been. Don't forget two years ago we were six and twenty
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four twenty five under Fred and we were paying him the twelfth or thirteenth most
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dollars in the country in his contract, and it was to the point where
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it was very very very very very very like we wanted him gone. I
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wanted him fired like Trev stuck it out, let him stay. This turnaround
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happened because Fred adapted to what he needed to do to win in the Big
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Ten. Two years later, the turnaround happens. We're third in the Big
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Ten. We go undefeated at home in conference play, we win our first
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round for our quarterfinal game, get to the semi finals of the Big Ten
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tournament and do well. So that's like huge kudos to Fred's staff, the
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program, to the players, all of that. Here's what sucks. Big
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ten teams suck in the tournament. They have for several years now. We
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have two that are hanging on here this year in this Sweek sixteen. But
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I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the style of play that wins in
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the Big Ten does not carry over apples to apples into the tournament. Now,
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if you're good, you're a fucking damn good top five team. You're
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damn good top five team. But there's a reason why Big ten teams struggle
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in the tournament is because of this style that you play and bang up and
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go up against time after time in the Big Ten. And then when you
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get to the tournament you run into teams like Alabama and A and M and
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Kentucky who didn't shoot it well. But hell, even look at Oakland and
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Yale, these teams that like just play this different style and you're like,
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well, shit, now what And so I'm not saying that we need to
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play like them, because you can't. That's not sustainable in the Big Ten.
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We found that out. But that's the reality of what happened. I
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think is Big Ten teams just struggle because of how they're built and structured in
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the tournament against the majority of other teams in the country. Hmm, it's
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it's the best two days is a sporting event or four days and ever every
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single year, God damnatday. I just gave like a three minute speel and
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you just go off to go off the rate of the Yeah, I was
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thinking about how how fun that those two there's four days aren't watching that game
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that tournament? I mean, yes, I would agree. Each conference does
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have their own style. Like I think the Big Toll is pretty soft.
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I watched b y U and I was like, gosh, you guys are
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just a bunch of soft all right, man handled. I wouldn't say the
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Big Twelve this year for sure has proven themselves to be elites like any of
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these teams, and it makes a question whether Houston can do it. The
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Big East gets three in, they're all in, they're all high seat.
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It's just fascinating. I guess to think about the conferences in the style and
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then putting them all how do you form yourselves and how? Because now it's
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how the conference style matches up, not necessarily the individual teams, because you're
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right, you have to win in your conference to make the tournament. So
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you need to build your team to win the conference, not win the tournament.
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Which Red started out trying to build a team how he had built in
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the Big twelve that was able to win in the tournament, which Big twelve
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has had success. But now look at that style past for years now.
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I mean I'm not counting Houston. Houston is a Big twelve team, but
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they're they have the same style they brought over from Yeah, they're a new
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Big twelve team like your your traditionals, And look how Key, you panned
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out. Lookout, Texas made it. Thank god, Hey you made it,
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but not not well far in the tournament. So anyways, I just
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think moving forward, I think we're at a good spot, Like I think
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the program momentum right now that I guess leads us into this week and some
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of the departures and transfers that we've already heard about. Uh, Dak have
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the joy on Saturday night? Yeah, what the heck happened? There?
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Guys hang out with some of our lovely players and and just just have a
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have a blast with them at Berry's. That looked like yep, So Dak,
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I'll kind of let you explain Saturday night. You know, the guys
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get back after the game Friday, obviously season's over. You start to see
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that guys like that back out, So Dak take it away. Well,
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I was we were down there watching the Creanton game on the bottom floor down
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there, and uh my buddy could reached him and said, dude, Casey's
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up there, said no way. So I got there. I'm like,
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oh, Casey, what's up? And then he said he's talking to me.
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You know what, did I speak great English? And then then of
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course sorry, I'm gonna stop you. I still would wish i'd be a
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fly on the wall to hear your in Case's conversation because I don't think either
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of you speak great English. Continue and I said, damn, good season,
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Case like you. You were so much fun to watch. And then
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of course my drunk ass says, are you coming back? He says no.
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I said, dude, why not? And I thought, I was
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like, oh crap, he applied for an extension or something. Don't defend
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Dak we knew he I felt. I felt so bad, and then I
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was like, oh no. So then I then Alec came up behind him.
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I told him, and I was like, okay, I know this
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guy's not coming back. So I talked to him and stuff I said.
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I said, dude, you got so much bear as you were on.
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You started bad and you got a lot better. I'll give you props for
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that. And then he said, thanks a lot to do. That actually
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means a lot anyway. So then so then here comes the rink mask CJ.
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Wilcher and uh Juwan and I think Bryce Williams is with him, but
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he went somewhere else. After that, I was like, I don't want
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to talk to this asshole. Who's rink mass roommate? If I know he's
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a guy doesn't play much on that team. Who's who's the guy Sam doesn't
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play much ONNY not Holyburg Christian Sin. Maybe Sam, I don't someone does
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some bench writer. Anyway I can know him. I was talking to Rank
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first, which god damn this embarrassing, but I was like, I was
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like, dude, why don't you box out some games? Oh? No,
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not the best. I was like, okay, some games you boxed
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are great. Some games he didn't. I'll give you props when you box
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that you played great. And he actually we talked for quite a while anyway,
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so I was like hey, I was like, hey, are you
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coming back? He said, oh yeah, I'm coming back. So then
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I found Jawan and CJ. Later on. I was talking to him and
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I asked, I asked the jails, Hey, dude, were you actually
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sick during the only game? What was going on there? He said,
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oh yeah, do I was sick. I was like, so you're coming
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back? He's like, I don't know which, which I was like,
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okay, you're not. I was like, how about this, you go
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to Oklahoma? Wink wink, He's like, dude, yokahma fans and no,
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I just really think you'd fit well there. So I'm recruiting him to
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Oklahoma. Now that's that part of the story. And then I was talking
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John was feel himself pretty good, and I said, do you come back?
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He said no doubt. So there you go. That's that's yeah.
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Which that winds up because CJ put a name on the portal today. Eli
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right, Lamellloyd and who I'm missing, God, damn it. I was
28:41
hoping you remember, because those were the three I remember. I feel like
28:45
there was one more, wasn't there there are yep, yep, yep.
28:51
I watched I swear I talked to Bryce Williams, though I don't know what
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I said. Yeah, so all this happened, and the actually we're getting
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I'm getting pictures and whatever else and Dak, I will say, props,
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your eyes were open. I I think every picture, but I think the
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one with Josiah you were a little little struggling there. Normally any picture you
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take with alcohol involved, your eyes are just all over the place. And
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now I was impressed you like, did a good job held yourself together?
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Yeah I was, I was. I was getting some uh some podcast points.
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I'll tell you that. And once left, I was like, Okay,
29:29
those guys were actually serious. If you were, If you were,
29:32
I mean knowing what you were doing, you could have, you know,
29:34
got an interview on the podcast. Maybe they'll remember you from the bar.
29:40
Get one. Okay, I did tell Casey podcast, there you go.
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I could imagine us trying to interview case that we got a podcast, need
29:49
to listen. And then I told him I returned to glory. I don't
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think. I don't think he's gonna listen. Hey, we don't need him
29:57
to listen. You have to DM and get him on the podcast. And
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then I did, Hey, shout up too. Other listeners at Berries are
30:08
creedy guys. They follow us on Spotify, so they'll get that update when
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once his post'll be like, God, this guy's not much better sober.
30:19
So those four guys transfer the one that I really think, I think needs
30:25
to stay and is a big piece is Bryce. When you told us all
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of that, I was a little worried because Bryce never was in any picture
30:33
and I'm like, shit, did you not even go with those guys?
30:34
As he like completely checked out, like not even in the loop with them.
30:37
But I'm glad that at least he was there and around. I think
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he's a big piece, like he is Gary and Gary, those two are
30:47
your blue guys. You're you talk about the athletic defenders that can keep people,
30:56
Like, let's be real, Wilcher and Casey, we're just getting attack
31:00
at will by A and M guards, and those A and M guards are
31:03
they were quicker sh I mean, they were damn fucking I mean, that's
31:06
why they had to take case A out. He was four for four for
31:08
three. But they're like, we have to stop the bleeding. We have
31:11
to put Hoiburg in, like we but even even I mean Sam, Sam's
31:15
obviously a lot that are defender at the same time, like he's just not
31:17
the athletic peace that those two are defensively and offensively. We see what they
31:22
can do. Juwan obviously on the glass too, but Bryce is just all
31:26
around. Like to me, he's the seven out of ten in every category
31:30
of the game. Like he's not an excellent anything, but he's just above
31:33
average. He's good. So he's a big one that we need to keep.
31:37
I haven't heard anything, which is probably a good thing, but I
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think that's the core that needs to stay. I think ranks things huge.
31:45
I think JaMarcus thing is going to help. Don't put my name on Juwan
31:51
staying rank is one hundred percent. That guy was hummercent solid. He's staying.
31:53
Juwan was we were kind of screaming over the music. So so that's
32:00
good that D locked him in. You probably gave him the bottom of drink,
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right, you keep him here? No, I actually didn't. I
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know you didn't. I can't believe I didn't, honestly, shot with all
32:14
of them that have been incredible, I did say, CJ mit this ain't
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asked, didn't they He said, no, we can play. I said,
32:21
come on, good job DJ. I love it. Whish he stayed.
32:29
So moving into next year, I think there's still obviously two or three
32:35
pieces. And I saw some national people posting, uh that you know,
32:38
this Nebraska team is not far from being a very very good tournament team.
32:45
We are just there. This team would have was a good tournament team.
32:49
Correct, Yeah, like this this team was up there too. So I
32:52
think the biggest piece and I know who would fill it well, but all
32:58
I've seen is like really really out there chucky hepburn at the point guard position.
33:01
Again, not a guy that we need to go out like a cam
33:05
Back or a John James Palmer, like a big score. We just need
33:08
a guy that can do a little bit of everything, kind of like kind
33:10
of like a Briance at the point guard, like we need someone like Chucky
33:15
would be the perfect mold for that to come back and play at Nebraska for
33:20
his final year. I don't know Ulis. Ulis is another one that I
33:24
think will help if he hopefully can get past all the crap. But we
33:30
need someone there JaMarcus. I think it's a lot of good things. And
33:32
I said when JaMarcus plays well, the team plays well, because I think
33:37
he's a solid player. But he's not a point guard. Yeah, not
33:42
the big ten. So you're we'll see what we got. Yeah, yes,
33:51
yes, it was only I mean he was contributing. I mean he
33:55
was everaging like fourteen points a game, fifteen points a game. Here's what
34:00
I think though, I think Bryce, I think not there on Juwan yet,
34:04
but I think a guy like Bryce and Rank who showed his moments.
34:07
I think Bryce is a very very strong three point shooter. I don't think
34:13
he got his many threes because you know case A and c J. That
34:15
was I mean, that was that's their role coming in. So Bryce's role
34:19
I think can change and evolved into really becoming a three level score on offense.
34:24
I think he has that capability in him. I just don't know that
34:28
what this year's team like, there were other guys that were filling that shooting
34:30
role, so he was able to do some other things off the bounce and
34:35
finishing at the rim when he needed to, but also what hit open shots
34:38
when he was there too. So yeah, but I agree, getting another
34:42
shooter is going to help like a lot, because as we've talked about Nebraska
34:46
basketball, we've always said we missed just the one fucking guy in the court
34:50
that can just make any open shot whenever he's open. Well, we finally
34:52
have gotten the past couple of years, if not one, but a couple
34:55
of those guys, and you can tell how much better it elevates our two
35:00
team when you have those guys. Good year, it was a great team.
35:05
Goodyear arguably one of the best season in Nebraska basketball history. I'll never
35:10
forget that fifteen minutes. So that was the greatest agree basketball and we'll always
35:15
have that. We will at some point, guys, in our life,
35:20
we will Nebraska basketball. We will get past that point to where we will
35:24
have a lot more, a lot longer fifteen minute moments. That's true.
35:29
Is that was that we'll get there, Like we'll get there. We just
35:35
we just just got to keep trusting it. It might still be twenty thirty
35:38
years we'll get there. Was that the game whe Kate Milton cut in since
35:44
she had cancer because because one okay, maybe not been that game anyway,
35:51
she cut in during the middle of the basketball game. I missed some of
35:53
it, but I don't know it was that game what it was. But
35:57
yeah, also got to give a shout out to wild Thing. Forget the
36:04
guy's actual name, the course said guy from the Big Ten tournament that was
36:09
going up Case. We saw him at the bar before and after the game,
36:14
and he's like, super chilled dude, Dak, that's your next project.
36:16
You gotta get him on the pod because he has become famous now because
36:20
of his reaction, at least to Husker fans. Dak, you got two,
36:22
we get two people. You gotta get Case and wild Thing on the
36:25
pop. That's your job. I can I'll d m wild Thing after this.
36:30
I don't know who that is. Oh, that was the quart side
36:32
guy that was dancing in the Big ten tournament. Yes, that's what I
36:36
just said. Well, when you said courtside guy, I was like,
36:38
who is he talking about? Was he quurt side of this one? Yeah?
36:44
They got him tickets. Oh there was no courtsey, but he was
36:45
like first row. So all right, well we will be back. I
36:52
guess in a week or so. Here we'll have March Madness updates for you.
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Kah, shout out Lady Huskers. Good year too. I guess throw
37:02
that one in there. Recap that too. Yeah, go mackred g b
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R, d J Gonna you, d J.