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Tory Pittman Commitment, Setting the Standard, Wildcats in Ireland · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast one week until kickoff in Arrowhead
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  Speaker 4: other information, but.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta get a shout out.
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  Speaker 1: We did, We did submit a question. We asked. We
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  Speaker 1: asked Old Sean if he's are practicing this punts. So
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  Speaker 1: we do have a little two part episode today, So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk some key headlines here at a start,
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  Speaker 1: and then towards the end, we are going to have
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  Speaker 1: an interview with Randol Rickenberg who he is my brother
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  Speaker 1: in law but also old Kase State Wildcat fan ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the week zero game here coming up in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days across the ocean as Case State takes
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  Speaker 1: on Iowa State in the farm Againton. So we will
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  Speaker 1: have the interview for you here shortly. So first off,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about some recent news that we
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  Speaker 1: did not talk about on Monday. Tory Pittman a soon
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  Speaker 1: to be five star most likely I guess he's currently
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  Speaker 1: a four star the one recruiting rankings, they don't do
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  Speaker 1: five stars until they reach a certain point in their
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  Speaker 1: high school or career, but most likely going to be
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  Speaker 1: a five star commits to Nebraska. He had other interests
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  Speaker 1: from schools like Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: Oregon, so.
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  Speaker 1: A big time get for the twenty twenty seven class,
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  Speaker 1: joining Trade Taylor in that class as well, which was
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  Speaker 1: a big git a few months ago. I guess, first off,
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  Speaker 1: big picture, what does this mean for the program? What
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  Speaker 1: this is? I mean, we've got some big time records.
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  Speaker 1: This is not like this is a safety too, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's not a quarterback. It's one of these other positions.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, talk about four or five star guys,
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  Speaker 1: we don't usually get a lot of those. Dylan Royola,
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  Speaker 1: Marlon Lucky. I think we talked about was maybe our
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  Speaker 1: last five star that we've gotten. What does this mean
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  Speaker 1: for rule in the program?
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  Speaker 4: Well, one, it's important to point out that he does
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  Speaker 4: play at Omaha Central, so he is a in state recruit,
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  Speaker 4: So I think that he helps. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: guess my initial reaction is, one, is class twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 4: so there's still a lot of time for me to
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  Speaker 4: either flame out and not be a five star. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what the likelihood of that is, or two
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  Speaker 4: change his commitment, which I think is a much higher likelihood.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's still two more years for him to
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  Speaker 4: be poached away for some other schools. So I think
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  Speaker 4: it's good that we're able to, you know, at least
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  Speaker 4: convince someone. I don't know how much of the hometown
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  Speaker 4: discount we got, you know, if he was from Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: Is he still choosing Nebraska. I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 4: mean good for rule. We'll see. I don't really know
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  Speaker 4: the impact of a five star safety is. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: it's good, but I just know I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Football football, especially in the state, you have to keep
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  Speaker 2: those five star cruits in house because especially the only
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  Speaker 2: D one program, because basketball doesn't really matter if you
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  Speaker 2: got you got Creating all those other D one, but
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  Speaker 2: football you have to keep him in house.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'd love to keep basketball in house too, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's it's it's a lot hard with creaton there.
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  Speaker 2: The safety position. I was thinking, I was thinking about this,
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  Speaker 2: he probably.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he could be like a Travis Hunter type,
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  Speaker 2: like an athlete?
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  Speaker 1: Potentially? He It sounds like he does play. He played
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  Speaker 1: plays receiver in high school too, and he's got good hands.
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  Speaker 1: So now will will he play both sides of the ball?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not but he might even switch to this offense. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he could. I would anticipate, you know, given that he's
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  Speaker 1: listing himself as a safety that's that's probably where he
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  Speaker 1: wants to continue his collegiate career at. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: do think it's important to keep those guys here when
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  Speaker 1: you got him right. I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: recently Iowa State has been poaching the Omaha type of
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  Speaker 1: kids and other small towns around the area. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of been the the topic here over the last year
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  Speaker 1: or two. So I when I think, I think this, like,
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  Speaker 1: you got to get guys, and you got to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you're getting the right guys. If you're keeping guys around,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to bring in big time guys. If
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  Speaker 1: if the message is we got to compete with not
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  Speaker 1: just the Minnesota's and Iowa's and Wisconsin's old we got
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  Speaker 1: to compete with the Ohio states, Oregons, Penn States. Like
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  Speaker 1: if we want to get to that point, like you
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  Speaker 1: got to bring in highly recruited guys. Now we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about it a lot. Recruiting stars don't mean jack shit
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  Speaker 1: unless they actually produce on the field and you got
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  Speaker 1: to develop them, use them the right way. Recruiting recruiting stars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're great, Like it's fun to talk about, fun to
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  Speaker 1: hype up, but you have to produce and show that
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  Speaker 1: they're worth that. Like you said, Austin, they it's a
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  Speaker 1: long time. But now and then so PROBA don't want
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  Speaker 1: to jump the gun and get too excited. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, and it's always not it's.
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  Speaker 4: Not bad news, but it's good to get a win. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, well add like now that they're committed
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  Speaker 4: in their in state, I imagine they'll get some more
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  Speaker 4: you know, guidance from the Nebraska coaching staff. This is
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  Speaker 4: a development.
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  Speaker 2: It's nothing though that they're gonna have to They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to throw some money at him because other schools
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  Speaker 2: are gonna start coming in with offers and not decide
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  Speaker 2: to see how much money will you throw out this
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  Speaker 2: guy to keep him because he's he's gonna get Bama's
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  Speaker 2: gonna did Bama offer him yet? Schools like Bama are
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna start throwing money at him.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, I know nothing from Alabama and the big
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  Speaker 1: ones you know, Oregon, Penn State, Yeah, Michigan, Michigan, Miami, LSU.
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  Speaker 1: You got your local Florida state, so Colorado, I think
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people too like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's just the name of the game, right, Money's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get thrown off the table, and you get to start
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  Speaker 1: evaluating high school kids. Are they worth X and whether
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  Speaker 1: you like it or not. That is where we are
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  Speaker 1: at in college sports. And now there's a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Of a limit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be more rules and guidelines that
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  Speaker 1: you have to follow, and so yeah, you you do
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  Speaker 1: have that to consider. Getting a commitment already is a
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  Speaker 1: is a jump start because he whatever was discussed shows
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  Speaker 1: that you know, both parties are in agreeance to that.
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  Speaker 1: So now things can obviously change before they enroll. But
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  Speaker 1: that's always like a good thing that there's some sort
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  Speaker 1: of commit commitment to what was decided.
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  Speaker 4: So it's good, it's it's a good it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be negative knowing about it.
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  Speaker 5: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: But your TV you have right now flip three times
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  Speaker 2: before he came to Nebraska.
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  Speaker 4: So qbs are probably a little different than most other positions.
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  Speaker 1: Though, yeah, a little.
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  Speaker 4: More money thrown out of QB than a safety.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, you know, competing with Minnesota, Iowa and those
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  Speaker 1: kind of schools and taking that next step. So one
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  Speaker 1: one other topic I want to talk about today too,
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  Speaker 1: is is just the similarities and differences that Nebraska as
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  Speaker 1: to some of these closer Big ten programs. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's some things that you maybe wish we had or
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  Speaker 1: we have done, and then there's things that you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to settle for because you have better, bigger and
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  Speaker 1: better aspirations of the program. But that being said, Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and Iowa it kind of dominated us from the scoreboards
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  Speaker 1: standpoint over the past handful of years, and some would
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  Speaker 1: say that their style there, the way they're doing things
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  Speaker 1: is what Nebraska should be doing. A heck, even Rule
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  Speaker 1: I think made that comment when he got here, was
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  Speaker 1: I love Iowa, wanting to Iowa correct, wanting wanting to
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  Speaker 1: be like be like Iowa, wanting to do what Iowa does.
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  Speaker 1: We can beat you know, beat them. I think being
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  Speaker 1: so close to these programs, I think it's a good
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  Speaker 1: place to start and talk about. Like what one I
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  Speaker 1: was ask you what do you guys like what do
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  Speaker 1: you like about Minnesota and Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: Specifically? I would say for Iowa's a consistency. I mean
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  Speaker 4: they're not you know what you're gonna get, like your
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  Speaker 4: your floor is pretty high.
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  Speaker 1: In Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, we're gonna have a really good defense. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be competitive in almost all of our games. And
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  Speaker 4: that's how it's gonna work. You know, some years we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have a decent offense. We're gonna bump up a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. Some years our offensive goes really bad. We
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  Speaker 4: might get closer to that floor, but we're gonna get
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  Speaker 4: you seven eight wins, maybe we'll bump out for a
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  Speaker 4: nine or ten win season.
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  Speaker 2: Shitty quarterback play.
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  Speaker 4: Never will be shitty quarterback play.
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  Speaker 2: I as a fan, I would hate I personally would
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  Speaker 2: hate that existent consistency because they have no ceiling like
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  Speaker 2: a wise or championship lies like you never playing that
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  Speaker 2: style football, you never win a championship. And it's the same,
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  Speaker 2: it's the same thing every year. You you know what,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get eight nine wins and also visually what
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  Speaker 2: I would just hate watching it.
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  Speaker 1: By I've dak I will say, you're very boring as
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  Speaker 1: a fan. When they have their breakout years. The argument
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  Speaker 1: against that is though like they Iowa has, they've they've
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  Speaker 1: had years they've gone ten and two, eleven and one.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe because you're a generous schedule, but I mean that
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  Speaker 1: that's getting me in the playoffs. Now are they going
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  Speaker 1: to win anything with that? I don't know, probably not.
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  Speaker 4: The playoffs system definitely changes the appreciation for Iowa because now,
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  Speaker 4: like because they usually end in the top twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: usually in the twenty to fifty, you know, the twenty
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  Speaker 4: to ten range. But now with the playoffs it spans
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  Speaker 4: the sixteen teams. I think now you're you're pretty much in.
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  Speaker 2: H But basically I think a lot compared to Thebratica.
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  Speaker 2: So thebrath coums in every year like we're gonna make
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna make the playoffs, and like have all his hype.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa fans don't, like, you can't, you can't get hyped.
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  Speaker 5: You could get hyped out.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, we're gonna make nine wins. Same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's because they know, like we're getting hyped
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  Speaker 4: because like we're gonna win eight games, We're gonna win
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  Speaker 4: nine games this year. They don't. They don't get hyped
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  Speaker 4: about that because that's what they're used to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would hate.
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  Speaker 1: It that see that. That's where I I mean Husker
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  Speaker 1: Husker fans say that too. It's style of plays boring.
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  Speaker 1: You don't you're never gonna win anything. Well, Ship they
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  Speaker 1: beat us every year like right, wait, wait, we're out
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  Speaker 1: of position now where.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I do think we are trying to get to that
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  Speaker 1: level of consistency and Austin you mentioned like how Iowas
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  Speaker 1: never gets blown out. Really they're in every game, close games,
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  Speaker 1: and they find a way to win them. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're getting closer to being in a lot of games.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't think that the program that we have
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  Speaker 1: now is going to see many blowouts, hopefully knock on woods.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we're from that aspect, we're getting there. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the style of plays different. But I will say this
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  Speaker 1: year and the things I've been here, in addition to
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  Speaker 1: what Dat's already brought up. This Gernowski kid from South
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  Speaker 1: Dakota State, like he sounds legit, like he's a dual
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  Speaker 1: threat guy. He has a forty nine and six college record. Now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's FCS, but it sounds like it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be the Deacon Hills of the world. In those
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  Speaker 1: kind of quarterbacks where they get nothing out of them.
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  Speaker 1: This guy. Sounds like he could elevate their offense a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. And you know, whether you want to call
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  Speaker 1: it boring or whatever. And who knows what Kirk this
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  Speaker 1: is going to do with them? Uh right, that could
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  Speaker 1: have given a dark horse to get the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: They might have like, yeah, it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know those Okay, now that they have a
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  Speaker 4: town quarterback, they're going to be able to call for
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  Speaker 4: it because they've never had you know, I mean, they've
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  Speaker 4: had decent players in the past, but what are they calling.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know they got a new offensive
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  Speaker 4: coordinator two years ago or last year.
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  Speaker 1: Last year the Western Michigan guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't know. I will say, when comparing
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  Speaker 4: in Iowa and Minnesota, I'd rather be Iowa. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like Minnesota kind of kind of like a lower step
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  Speaker 4: below Iowa. They're still super consistent, but now it's more
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  Speaker 4: of a their ceiling is lower than Iowa because they
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  Speaker 4: aren't quite as good in every level.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, but also a team but also for the most
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  Speaker 1: part as kicked our ass recently. Another team that's close
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  Speaker 1: that we just can't seem to get over the hump
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  Speaker 1: on and like PJ Fleck or not. He built a culture.
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  Speaker 1: Now is that Row the Boat narrative Maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: stale after several years maybe, but he's got he's got
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  Speaker 1: that program too to a place that I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: call him as consistent as Iowa. But they're probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: win six games, yeah, yeah, probably making a Bowl game,
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  Speaker 1: and they're probably going somewhere between six and eight win
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  Speaker 1: So it again, this goes back to what do you
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  Speaker 1: want as a fan? Is that the starting point? Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to be building something now so that that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen? Not that you can ultimately control that, but
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  Speaker 1: I think what they've done as programs we need to
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  Speaker 1: be taking pieces from because they that's where we need
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  Speaker 1: to start, Like, we need to get to that point first,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not there now. Last year, great, we won
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  Speaker 1: six games, seven with the bowl game. Great as a start,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not like, I mean, if we could, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like we're gonna consistently be come a ten win
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  Speaker 1: team year after a year all of a sudden. Moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think maybe we will and we'll just surpass
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  Speaker 1: the eight and four years, but I think there's there's
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  Speaker 1: things to be taken away from these programs that are
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: beating us. Let's start there, like, you can't. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: hard for me. You can't talk shit and and say
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  Speaker 1: like that's saying how moore. It's hard for me to
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  Speaker 1: ever say that to Iowa fans and laugh at them
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  Speaker 1: because they beat us every year and regardless of how
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  Speaker 1: that happens. Last year was the prime example of just
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  Speaker 1: the ugliest win that you can ever have.
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  Speaker 2: They won.
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  Speaker 1: There's been several of them.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the question is is prior to this year
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  Speaker 4: and ship maybe this year, at what point would you
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  Speaker 4: have not switched places with Iowa over the last ten years?
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't. Right last day, maybe Mike Riley year, But
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing. Yeah, there's no point where you wouldn't switch
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  Speaker 2: spots to Isola. I guess I don't. But here's the
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  Speaker 2: here's the point of the two pro two programs. Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska where they're at PG. Fleck is on a pretty
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  Speaker 2: hot seat for winning six seven games there and Matt
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Rule is getting all hyped up because Nebraska won six games.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, that's just a difference in expectations and the consistency
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  Speaker 1: that what's been on. And I've said p J Flag
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  Speaker 1: maybe not hot hot seat, but I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I think Iowa they don't give a ship. They love
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Farnce.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna be there for life. Yeah. And maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: those maybe Iowa fans, I don't know you around them,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're cool. If the winning eight nine games every
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  Speaker 2: year and being that consistent they are, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think they do it and why not the like tell me,
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  Speaker 1: especially now with the playoffs, Tell me why that's not
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  Speaker 1: eight or nine wins with a one every four year
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  Speaker 1: chance to make a run in the playoffs like that.
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  Speaker 1: Not saying that that's where I want to land and
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  Speaker 1: end up and be there, but like right now for us,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be phenomenal, Like for where we've been.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we felt like I feel it's say, I
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  Speaker 4: felt like they were a quarterback away the last couple
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  Speaker 4: of years. So all you need to get is one guy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it would be like, oh crap, like we
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  Speaker 4: might be able to win one or two more games
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  Speaker 4: and all contenders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah did you did you guys see Grunk Caskier? Have
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you say his name? Stats? In spring game?
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  Speaker 4: I did, but I remember being pretty good.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: No, it was he was nine to twenty one with
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: two fund with snaps where his fault. Yeah, he just
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: straight up dropped him like they went twenty yards behind him. Yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: so maybe not so all this hype. I guess that'd
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: be that'd be still a quarterby play for Iowa.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: But yeah, I don't know what they literally what was
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: it a couple of years ago they hit through it
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: less than ten times against US?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: It's really well with all fat boy.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they still almost won. They might have won.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: I don't even remember they did win. They did win.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: They had six completions and we lost. Yeah, so who cares.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: We we've been down that road. Last last thing here
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: before we get to our interview. Starting to look at
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: the weather forecast here since we're a week.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Out and you know, small chance of rain, but out
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: of any day in the next ten days, we got
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit of rain forecasted. So I have seventy
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: two in Kansas City, so little, little chillier fall day.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I feel like get favors Cincinnati if I had to guess,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: you know, if you're the less talented team, you would
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: want the the game to be slower and muckier and
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: lower scoring. Great weather for a fan, though, I mean
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: it's still gaming. Whether if it's if it stays dry long.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Enough, Yeah, that's it's gonna be perfect weather. I don't.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think it favors either team the weather wise
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and this if it's perfect weather, it's not gonna affect
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the game at all. I think there was one point
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask about this game though, and I
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: was talking to him either body last night as we
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: closer as the game, everyone saying Cincinnati is no shot?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Is that making you guys more nervous as you get closer?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: I'm nervous.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Who's who's everyone? The people last night last night?
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Many times I.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Don't, I mean that that's Husker fans, right, That's that's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: what we do. We we we just say Cincinnati is
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: bad when we know nothing about Cincinnati. We have no
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: insight besides the couple of comments that we probably hear
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: amongst ourselves.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: In last year's record, in last year's record.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what people do, is they look at
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: last year's record and keep in mind, Cincinnati beat Arizona
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: State last year, who was pretty good, and they shut
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: out Houston. Houston wasn't great, but it shut them out.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Like it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Is.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: It's funny, Dak, You're right, everybody's discount or discrediting Cincinnati.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I'm scared, like and you know they're hearing that Cincinnati.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Is maybe I don't know, just like I mean, we don't.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't follow Cincinnati media and and and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: news and that religiously. Like I'm guessing majority of them
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: are not doing the same.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: No, I'm mean, I I said, look up who their
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: quarterback was. I don't even I know, we know nothing
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: about saying now.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you mentioned that the other day, which hit me.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby's been there for five years, like like he's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: he's maybe not there, but he's played college fotball for
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: five years and he's been at Cincinnati for the past
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: couple He like has experience, and from what I've heard
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: from a national side of things, they're they're going to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: try to run the ball more and like Austin said,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: muck it up and.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Rain tends to help its.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Me, it does that. I do think the weather scares
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: me a little bit more depending on what we're trying
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to do on offense, maybe it'll quote unquote force us
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to run the ball more than what we were planning
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: on doing, but which is good for us. By the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: way Ashag run the ball, I don't know from a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: game standpoint, Like again, it just scared. It scares me
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: like I'd rather be perfect weather because I think we
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: have better fully the better players. Don't know that from anything,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: but we're favored by six and a half. That's probably
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: what I'm going off of.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Well, that we're just a bigger program. We spend more money.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: It's to assume that raw talent wise, we should have
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: better talented players.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Once they if they drive down that field, because that
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: place to be rocking a kick, drive down that field
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and score first. That place is gonna be you can
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: hear a pin dropping there.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: It won't happen, Dack, it won't happen. Imagine if we
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: go out there and four and out, Jacorey takes the
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: punt to the house that place, that's what I want.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I love.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Everybody's trying to predict and think what the game is
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: gonna look like.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking people might do a zip line and the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: tailgating scene down there, and you know, I think people
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: are trying to make plans and and it's it's gonna
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: be chaos, guys, it's you can make plans, but I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: think it's gonna just be a free for all and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun that way. Those are sometimes the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: best games to go to. You just hope that the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: product on the field and the outcome of the game
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: ends well, so the whole experience can be a positive one,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: because who gives a shit about everything else? If we
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: come out there out of the game and we lose,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: like that just ain't gonna be fun. And you're right,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: people are saying Cincinnati is not great and it's gonna
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: be a cakewalk on like oh people like it right, yeah,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like which that was with Fickle. But anyways, all right,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: well we're gonna get to our interview here with Brandal
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Rickenberg and talk some case states. Iowa State's weak zero.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: We're here with Brandal Rickenberg, my brother in law wanted
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Dax's longtime friends Case State Wildcat fan, most importantly as
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: the Cats take on the Cyclones over in Dublin, Ireland
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: in week zero on Saturday, eleven am kick local time.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Here in the Midwest, Randall, you probably have been on
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: just nerves and everything this week. You know, we're waiting
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: one more week for that. We're not the Case State
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: fans that you are we might claim to be at
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: some time as we're all wearing our Case State gear.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: That's the uh, that's the Adrian Martinez effect. We'll go
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: at that for Uster Nation. But yeah, no, fired up.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I'm getting all the podcasting I can in listening to
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: listening to the k State podcast. Got one in this morning,
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: so yeah, no, I my my my heart gets rising
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: a little bit when I when I get to listen
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: to them, because I mean we're two days away, so
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: it got here fast.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: What's the go to k State podcast?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Bosco's Boys is a big one. That's that's like a
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: really big one that I listened to mostly. And then
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: the KSO Show. They do a lot of pre and
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: post game stuff, so that's where you kind of find
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: that stuff out. But yeah, those are those are my
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: my two main go to ones.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Well, what is the outlook here this week for KSE
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: state Iowa State? You know, we we know what we've
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: probably seen on TV, but what what's what's the preview
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: look like? KSE State's a three and a half point
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: favorite now I think is the last I've seen. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: do know that Iowa State and Matt Campbell has owned
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Chris Climban since he's been at case State. I believe
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he's four and one, five and zero against the spread,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: but KSE State is favored going across the water.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, last win for case State was Adrian Martinez ten
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: to nine in Ames, so that was that was real,
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: real good game. But no, I think they're pretty evenly matched.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Kind of the spread probably favors that two two pretty
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: quarterback heavy Avery Johnson and rock O Beecked. But ultimately
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: I guess we'll probably get to the later stuff, but
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I think whoever takes care of the ball is gonna
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: win the game. Ireland just kind of like the uh,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: the British Open and golf. It's it's it's a it's
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: a weather battle over there, and there's I know there's
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: a chance of rain in the forecast, but yeah, it's
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: gonna be it's gonna be a blood bath and two
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: of the top teams in the Big twelve. So I
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: don't know, I'm excited, nervous, but if I if I
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: wasn't nervous, it means I don't care, right, So.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, first ever ranked versus the rank game in Ireland.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: What what are your thoughts on and this is wise too.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on playing a tough opponent in
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: your first game of the year. Do you like that
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: or not crazy?
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: I'm indifferent about it, but I think it's a good
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: test to start the year. Plus I one of my
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: things that I do like about it is both teams
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: come into it healthy. Normally, normally Farmageddon ends the year
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: and they it's it's always a battle on health a
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: lot of the time. But I don't know, starting the
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: year healthy, two teams playing each other, I think it'll
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: be great. And I love being the first game of
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: the year. I think that's awesome. Everybody's watching you.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I sometimes I don't know. I go back and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: forth on it because I was in Nebraska played Northwestern
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: over there. Conference game wasn't like a Big Ten conference
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: game this year for this one. I mean, these are
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: two teams that could be towards the top or if not,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: at the top of the Big Twelve standings. And you
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: don't want to say that this could have major implications
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: on who plays in the conference title game, but it could.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And the hard part about that at the Big Twelve
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is there. We talked about it in our win total
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: or win predictions everybody's between like five and a half
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and eight and a half. So it's the Big Twelve
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: is just a free for all. Obviously you might have
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: KSE State, you know, towards the top of that being
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the KSE State fan, But what are who are some
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: other Big twelve teams that you're looking at watching that
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you know, competing for that top spot. Because I think
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: KSE State is the the preseason favorite to win the conference,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: but it's not by much.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah I would. I think it's Case State's at the top. Obviously,
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: yeah bias because I'm a k State fan, but Iowa
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: State's right there. They got some experience both sides of
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: the ball. Now they lost some some big threats on
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: the on the outside, but they I they have the experience,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: so I'm I'm not gonna go against them. I do
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: like Matt Campbell as a coach. Texas Tech is an
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: interesting one. I have not bought in the hype of
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: of just buying buying your team. I don't know if
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: that's the way to go. Maybe it'll work for him,
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: but I I don't see them as the as the
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: top dog threat. Maybe I guess we'll say I don't.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: I don't like having to play Utah this year. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: know that Utah scares me and I I think they
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: could maybe make a push. But other than that, I'm
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: trying to think. I don't I could be missing somebody.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: If you guys think of somebody, Yeah, Arizona State, I
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: think they'll be right there. I don't. I don't think
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: they'll be what they were last year. I think Cam
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Scattabo was was way too much to that team. Who
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: they replace him with, I'm not sure, but uh yeah,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: that'll be That'll be one that they'll be up there.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: But I would probably go Case State, Iowa State, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: then I think Utah will be there in the end.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That was Yeah, I had my big, big full title
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: game is the first game of the year here in
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Case Iowa State. I think I think those their top
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: two teams. So what is what are you looking for?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Avery and Avery Johnson improved the most this year.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I think it's got to be his running. I he
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: now I say that, and he and there's a lot
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: of teams who would kill the have what he what
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: case they had last year with him running. But all
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: I've heard this offseason is he's put on eighteen pounds
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: of muscle. He's gonna be able to run it more.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: He's looking to run it more.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Connor Riley, our our half O C last year, our
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: co O C last year left went to the Cowboys
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: for for to be the O line coach. So Matt
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Campbell's kind of taken the helm by himself, and I
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: think they will look to to run more with just Avery.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: I think it might be a split. They got. They
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: got a two guy backfield. Dylan Edwards is obviously very explosive,
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: but I think Avery's gonna run it a lot more
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: than he did last year. Designed or undesigned either way.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And just as a very casual KSE State man. I
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's a strength their team. And
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Avery is a very mobile guy. So as you're preparing
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: for k State this year, you know, I think that's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the first thing you want to stop is the quarterback
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: run game. But also Billan Edwards being very explosive. What
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: do they have then on the outside at receiver guys
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: coming back, new guys coming in?
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So they they returned Jace Brown. Jace Brown, He'll
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: be a big one. He's he kind of underperformed early
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: last year and kind of started to pick it up.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Had a big catch against touchdown against Colorado. I think
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: he actually had two, but had a big one late,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: and then he had a couple other big games, but
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: they got drawn Tibbs from Purdue, I believe. I don't
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: know if you guys, did you guys play Perdue last year?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, one of our wins sewn Tibbs.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: But so he's the he's the one that they're really
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: talking about in camp and they they are really high
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: on him, and then drawn Bradley from Boston College, so
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: he was Tech and then call Boston College. So he's
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: he's kind of the third slot right now. But I
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: would if I was an opponent, I would be very
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: worried about the tight end room. They returned four tight
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: ends who all caught two or more touchdowns last year,
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: and they have a five star tight end who I guess.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: A little side note, I do you guys know that
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: you have to report every Wednesday your your injury report
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: this year?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I did not know that.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's just a big twelve thing. I don't think
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: it is, but just came out and they're the five
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: star tight end. He's actually out for for Iowa State.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: So but still got still got the four tight ends
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: that I would be very very cautious of if I
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: was scouting in Kansas State.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, since since I know you're big kool
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: aid drinker for Nebraska, let's slip to them. What are
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: your thoughts on how the season's going to go for
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the Huskers.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: I I think it's got to be very bright, I
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: I really do. I don't. I think similar to Kansas State.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: I think if Dylan Ryola is a star, Nebraska will
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: be good. I think that's I think their their offense,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: their team kind of revolves around him. He's got to
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: play well for for the uh for the machine to
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: to move. So but I I see, I see probably
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: nine and three is kind of where I'm at with them.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: I think they have a very favorable schedule, but I mean,
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: you still gotta you gotta play every game. You gotta
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: win every game. That Now, will every game be a blowout, No,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: But I think that they'll all be really good games.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: But I think Nebraska gets it done this year. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: think they go to nine and three.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Nine and three. So they just just some general background too,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I guess for some of the listeners. As far as
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: k State football, goes and we are a Husker football podcast,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: but there is a background and Raandal mentioned earlier why
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: we have some purple on and and Adrian Martinez was
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: a big part of that, leaving Nebraska to go to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: k State for his last year. And I will say
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: we talked in our earlier session about how Iowa and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Minnesota and some of the things we liked and disliked
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: from their programs. K State's football program and being obviously
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: very close to Lincoln, how they model how Chris Climate
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: has done things over the past five years, Like it's
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: pretty impressive and there's a lot of things I think
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: that you can take away from Nebraska that you can
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: model after what Climate's done. And it's been fun to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: follow and fun to watch. Now will I ever call
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: K State we and and claim I'm a K State fan, No,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: not truly, but I do think they've been fun to watch,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and you know, I root for him, and I think
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that it's kind of brandle where you're at with Nebraska.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Who You've been a case State fan your whole life,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: but you've also lived in Nebraska and you've been around it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: You're familiar with what goes on and while at one
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: time Case State in Nebraska kind of were rivals and
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you hated each other. You know, there's there's this level
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: of like I do I like it. I don't mind
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: K State. I don't mind wearing purple every so often now,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: just like you probably don't mind wearing red.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah that's right. I so, yeah, I was. My My
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: dad played football at K State, so that's where where
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: the K State comes for me. But my my mom
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: was a big is a big Husker fan, really anything Nebraska.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: But she when I was little, she was used to
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: make a sweatshirt that said I am a Nebraska and
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: K State fan. They owned a sporting good story and
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: that thinking of it now it makes me sick to
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: my stomach. But but yeah, so I'm I'm a K
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: State fan. But after Nebraska left the Big Twelve, all
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: cheer for Nebraska any game unless they play K State.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: I have no problem with that. I enjoy going up
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: to Memorial Stadium and it's it's a really nice atmosphere.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: I I enjoy it. It gets rowdy. The Colorado game
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: last year was was awesome. But yeah, no, I I
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I will be a Nebraska fan every time until they
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: play Case State.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: What about thoughts on on Scott Bross is coming coming
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  Speaker 1: to Manhattan. I know we're playing on going down to
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the game. It's during our first bye week. Scott Ross
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: going to u c F coming to town. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts there?
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Good question, good question, great question. It is a it
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: is a very very playing with fire situation in my opinion,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: especially the team that he's putting together, a lot of
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: a lot of junior college guys, is what I've heard,
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: and uh from experience with the transfer portal. Jerome Tang,
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Kansas State's basketball coach, is a big transfer portal guy,
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: not necessarily recruit the high school recruit. I guess if
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: you want to say it is it is playing with fire.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: So it could be a home run or it could
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: be an absolute strikeout. There is there is a very
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: high and very very low ceiling and.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Floor to beware the hust red in Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
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  Speaker 5: And you, yes, people will think it's People will think
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: it's hilarious, especially especially that game. They will think it's
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: the funniest thing ever. Now they might make jokes like
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: you guys hired that guy, But no, I I think
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: people will laugh at it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's dive into it. You predict score,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: prediction and how the game will go in Ireland, so
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 5: I have Again, I think the weather will play a factor.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I think there's a chance of rain in the forecast.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: I think there. I don't know if it will be
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: the whole game, but I think there might be some weather.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be who takes care of the
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: ball the best. But I think Case State gets it
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: done twenty four or fourteen. They got a new kicker
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  Speaker 5: this year. I think I think it'll be twenty one
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  Speaker 5: to fourteen, and I think kicker will give him a
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: give him a thirty seven yarder. If you want me
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: to be exact, to push it, push it late to
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: ten point lead, and I think it stays at that
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  Speaker 5: throughout the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Of the game.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Austin did take case State earlier when we were talking
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: about it. I mean, I have to too. I'll go
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go low
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: scoring as well. I think the Ireland game the past
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: few years have all been under games. Yeah, I think
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: it'll be I think it'll be a battle. I'm excited
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to watch this game. Some of the games have been
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe not as hyped up this one.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, like Dak said, two ranked teams, I'll go
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen k State. I do think Brandle your point
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: about taking care of the ball. I mean, both teams
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: are gonna want to try to run the ball a lot,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and you know if you if you lose a possession
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: or two because you muff one up, I think that's
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: going to be a difference in this game. So yeah,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I agree twenty seventeen wockats. We did Austin give a
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: score prediction, did not just took Cai.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Just took case Date.
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  Speaker 4: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is my lock of the week. I'm going
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: KSE State minus three. Oh gosh, I think just for you,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I think, uh, I think it'll be thirty one seventeen
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: KSE State And all comes down to I think Aary
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Johnson's a lot better than Backs. I don't. I think
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Back's a solid quarterback. There's a ceiling with him, though,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: and I think I think having a full off season
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: to have avery to improve his accuracy and just a
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: just another year in their climbing. And that's another reason
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: why I'm thinking Case SID. I think climbing is a
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: lot better coach than Matt Campbell. I'm totally off the
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Matt Campbell's ship. I think, Yeah, that fire on your
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: him has kind of ran out.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I I hear a lot of
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: ups and downs with my Campbell. I hear a lot
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: of people who are really really high on him, a
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: lot of people who are not high at all on him.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: But yeah, no, I yeah, I think it'll be it'll
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: be a reverse rock Obeck just kind of the the situation.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: I think that is what it'll come down to a
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: lot too, that those two who can play better.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: So Yeah, for background two. This year on the podcast,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: we've had Dak do some pick segments and some predictions
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: in the past. This year Dak gets one college and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: one NFL game a week and that's all. So this
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: week it's it's case State minus three is probably the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: kiss of death.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're lucky it's week zero and there's not any
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: other games. Otherwise I'd be more upset.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Every every listener has to go put one hundred dollars
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: on it, or else you can't listen to podcast anymore, and.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: There goes our listeners.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: The Bold strategy, the bold strategy.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Last question for you here, b Archie Wilson.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, do you have your Do you know the name? I?
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: I know the name only via your podcast or Twitter.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: The only time that I have I've heard the name.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: But rugby style punter correct from Australia?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Yep?
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: Did or did not get the single digit number?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Did not?
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: Did not? Okay, I I I was. I wasn't sure
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: on that one. I knew that was a would have
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: been an interesting give, but.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: That had been cool kicks with both legs?
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Does he really that's impressive?
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: You can roll out both ways, can throw it according?
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Okay? Do you think they will? They'll they'll incorporate that,
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: won't they.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Mike says he's a weapon.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh that that means that that's at least three
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: fake punts this year.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about hype around any player? One
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: single player? Man, it is Archie Wilson, and what can't
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: he do? That's what we've heard. What can't Archie Wilson do?
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: Maybe maybe it's a great It could be just a decoy.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's a great decoy. Maybe maybe it gets Cincinnati
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: being like, all right, we really got to watch out
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: for this guy, and then all of a sudden, the
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know you're you're backup tight end is just
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: gonna have a big day because they forgot about him.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: If we incorporate Archie Wilson to something other than our
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: punt game, that would be electric. Like if all of
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: a sudden Archie Wilson drops out there on like third
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and five or something like, Oh my.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: God, just make him. Was he a he's a rugby player,
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: right came, that's his background. Oh put it? Make him
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: the the was it Blake Bell, Dakota, the bell.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Dozer, Oh yeah, the bell dozer, the.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Bell dozer, anything, goal line. Just put Archie in. It's
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: got to be a QB draw.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's kind of like a tays some hill.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Honestly tell you.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: Might as well use him.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: All right, well, I'll do it here close out the episode,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: and we'll get a get a little go Cats here too.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: So thanks Brander for joining us. Good luck to the
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Case State Wildcats against Iowa State. We'll be doing a
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: fantasy football draft. Dak will be there, Branda will be
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: there kind of before and then during the games we'll
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: enjoy that. We'll have ourselves as Saturday Boys.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Big Cats awesome. Thanks guys, thanks for having me.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Go Cats, Go Catstrict