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Episode 5.37: NO TURNOVERS -- Wisconsin Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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The Turner Glory Podcast, Cutter Darb, Ticky, Austin Rose, The Code
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of Free tag wis Constant the week, Dak, how is the hands today
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better? I wrote my notes with it. You know, it's not good
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when your left handed cut in your left hand, but I can move it
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today. It's all good. That doesn't hurt anymore. About timers, stitches
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come out? Wow, already, I'm ready. I have no concept of
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how long stitches need to be in anything. They said ten days. We'll
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see about that, all right, Dak. How many stitches have you had
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in your life? Like total? Yeah? Didn't you have some in your
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head not too long ago? Yeah? I did. That's that's the worst
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story. But you got there are six there, six in my hands,
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six or three on my pinky, so fifteen. Look at you? Just
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accident prone all over. I'm just yeah, I'm just taking injuries left and
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right. Well, it is Wisconsin week. Nebraska basketball is playing right now
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against Stony Brook, so I have that on my phone here as we're podcasting
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live. Three point shooting lost us a little bit the last couple of games.
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Yeah, we got sweating. What was that neck? We got sweating
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last game? A little bit. I wouldn't say sweating, but can I
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say going two for thirteen one from eleven for three is not what you really
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want? Well, he was one for nine and then the TV commentator made
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some comment about wanting to see him go going downhill and then he comes out
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and just buries back to back threes right after. So that's what they say,
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shoot or shoot shooter shoot rank mass seems like the real deal. I
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love him. I love the big boy. He gets rebounds. This is
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what I love the most out of him. I agree, and yeah,
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I really like our team this year. I wasn't too worried. Obviously,
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you don't want to. You know, beating a team by fourteen that you
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should beat by thirty is never great. But Jasiah Alec I like him.
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The spread was fourteen and a half. It was not like we were if
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were a half, I got, I got sixteen and a half. What
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the are you talking about tonight's game or when? Yeah, Monday's game A
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Monday's game was four eight and a half sixth tonight it was okay. I
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was gonna say, I like, I like our non conference schedule. I
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mean we play at Oregon State on Saturday. I think that'll obviously be a
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Power five team, a tougher opponent, but I think we'll be favored in
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it, and then our toughest non con games are going to be Creating and
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Kansas State on the road. So I mean, realistically speaking, if we
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take care of business, we should go into conference play only with a couple
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of losses, which it's a lot more fun that way. I guess.
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If it seems like our record shows that we are doing all right, the
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Big Tens down big time too, do you think so? I haven't been
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impressed. Michigan State looks awful and they can't shoot the three Michigan, Yeah,
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Michigan looks pretty good, all right, they're probably Yeah, I can't
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even think of that State's supposed to be your best team. They what were
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they three to thirty at one point on the season from three? Yeah,
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it hasn't been good. And I've heard that take before too, Dak.
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How the Big ten may not be the normal Big ten that we're used to,
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which bodes well I think for this team and the way that we play
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now a lot of size that we have a lot of experience out there on
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the court, so it will be fun to see how this team progresses along
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as we get closer. I think one of our first conference games is hosting
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Michigan State, so it may be good to play them while they're still trying
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to figure stuff out, because those teams always do come along when it gets
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closer to March. But I agree, it's exciting to follow along, as
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you know. For now, we'll see how it continues on into the year.
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Basketball. Basketball, man, I'll see you. U see the final
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four, DAK, what was your record prediction, like twenty four and six
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or something like that. I thought twenty three and seven. I think it
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was a lot that was solely off of non conference. They they basically eight
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wins coming out a non conference. Yeah, and then I didn't expect to
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State to be awful. And then I don't even I couldn't tell you the
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rest of the big team. I don't watched Second. Well, Iowa lost
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last night, never mind, that's true, they did all right. Moving
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on to football here, a lot of scrutiny, I would say for the
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coaching staff and most we've had so far after the decisions on Saturday and the
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way that game played out against Maryland. But we're playing a team in Wisconsin
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that is under a lot of pressure and heat of their own under first year
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coach Luke Fickle. From what I've been hearing and reading stuff this week,
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it sounds like they're really struggling to get the buy in the culture fixed their
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I mean, they transitioned away from the old Big ten West run ball and
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we're transitioning to which that in itself makes me happy. I think that's a
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plus an advantage for Nebraska. Did you see that Wisconsin linebacker who was interviewed
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and it was just absolutely ripping into the team, like we aren't physical,
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we aren't you know, we don't play Wisconsin football. I didn't come here
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to play this style with football. You know, people aren't. I mean,
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it was he was probably not a popular guy in the locker room after
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that. I mean, it reminds me a little bit of Frost coming in
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and just changing the entire culture and style that they're trying to play. So
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that keep that in mind that I guess as we go into this week,
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because yeah, Husker fans and right now we're coming off a couple of games
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we probably shouldn't have lost. But at the same time, Wisconsin's hurting too.
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Now we do go to Madison. It's never fun playing in Camp Randall.
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It is going to be a night game at six thirty, it's gonna
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be late. But I'm not sure that Wisconsin's going to be really getting up
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for this one like it has been the past few times we've gone to Madison.
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So I think that does help here. Which team is going to come
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out US or Wisconsin with the more juice, the more fight, being able
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to respond because they're probably gonna turn the ball over and they may too.
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Who's gonna be able to bring it to the other team more and want it
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more? Is what this gonna come down to. It's a mid November,
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late November football game, Big ten football game. Funny to say, we
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still have hopes of taking take ten title game. So that's a lot to
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play for, guys. There's a lot to play for here and and I
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think fans, including myself, I needed to get over this Maryland game a
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little bit because it did. It's stung for multiple reasons. It's stung with
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decision making, with potentially even the future of this coaching staff put a little
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damper on things. But Wisconsin's hurting too. That's that. That's the bright
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side here. I agree. Yeah. I read an interesting article today comparing
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in Nebraska and Wisconsin's programs and kind of how we're both the The article is
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basically trying to say that Wisconsin is where we were when Sean I fired Bo
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Polini, because basically the programs had been they had a really successful coach who
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then kept continues picking their successor and had were heavily involved. The old coaches
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stayed heavily involved. And they were saying Wisconsin and Barry Alvarez, Nebraska had
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Tom Osbourne and they just weren't happy with people mostly winning, and then they
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hire a guy. Then there comes a new ad who wants to make a
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big splash and hire a guy who's kind of counterculture. It's what they traditionally
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been doing. And then they had to do some soul searching, and they
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were trying to say that Nebraska is correcting its course. It's gone through the
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soul searching part after firing the ad who makes the big splash, and they're
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saying, Wisconsin may have the ad who just made the big splash, and
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now they have to do the soul searching. But it it's kind of interesting.
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Luke Fickle's first year, You're right, it's just not a fit for
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what they normally do. It didn't sound like the players were super thrilled about
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it, and obviously they haven't gotten to buy and they got beat by Northwestern,
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although they keep in mind Fickle was hired basically, I think it was
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one or two days right after we hired Rule, and that was a name,
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a top name in the coaching carouself for Nebraska as well when we were
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searching for coaches. So, I mean, if you look at it and
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compare it to that in the styles of play, like, I think Oscar
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fan should be very happy with what we have with Rule. Now. We
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still have a lot of challenges and weeknses of our own, don't get me
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wrong, but I think the style that we're playing is better than what Wisconsin
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is trying to do, and there's a lot of frustrations there. So there's
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a big opportunity I think this week to go out there and get a win,
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and I hope that the staff and the players can identify that and put
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together a good enough game plan to go in to Madison and make us be
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eligible. Dak, what do you know about Wisconsin? Well, coming into
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the off season, Fickle was number two on my list of the guys you
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should hire. Dian was one, Fickle was two. I thought, I
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thought Fickle. I thought he was a splash higher coming. Looking back on
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it now, I don't know. It's pretty can it's your one. He
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did really well at Cincinnati. I'm not gonna sell out on Fickle yet.
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It's just he is just a hard left from what they were doing. So
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it's gonna take a lot more time than they think. And I thought,
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oh, you boy would be better, a better quarterback there too. He
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isn't. Which how is he back? I thought he was out for the
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year. I looked. I looked at when they played his content or Northwestern,
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looked at stats. He he had played that whole game. I thought
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he was out for the year. Yeah, I think he must not have
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been a season ending injury. Austin he made an interesting point on you know,
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Fickle's yeer one. Gotta give him time. What's interesting? And I
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thought about this today this morning, actually, and I wasn't particularly thinking of
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rule, but I think it applies to rule as well. We're in an
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environment right right now in college football where coaches get paid a lot of money
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and schools have the money and are going to continue to get money from collectives
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and different businesses and organizations that are willing to fund these universities and coaches contracts.
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It's not like you don't you don't get five years, six years any
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more to prove yourself. It is you get your time, and if you're
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not meeting the expectations and standards of the donors and the big money people,
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then then then you're not going to be around. And I think we saw
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that with Frost and probably the extended version of it where we did try to
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hang on, and as we talked about on here, it was a couple
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of years too long. Zach Garnett taking over for Mike Leach down at Mississippi
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State lasted ten games, and at the same time, Jimbo Fisher gets fired.
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Now Jimbo was there for a little longer. Jimbo's getting paid twenty thousand
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dollars a day a day for the next eight years. So yeah, I
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get the money thing, I understand it. But there's so much money right
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now floating around in the economy and interest in college football as an an entertainment
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industry. So with rule two, but fickle two. You might get longer,
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but you might not, and you have to do whatever you can to
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win now with the pieces that you have. And if you're not doing that,
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you better be selling the fans or the people that have the money on
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your process and what you're shooting for here, because you're not gonna get as
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long as what we're traditionally used to in an ever changing college football environment.
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So for someone like Luke Fickle, we'll see. I mean it very well,
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could be a couple of years if you can't do it, And it's
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hard when you're transitioning from a team that plays one way and you're trying to
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go the other way, Like that's going to be difficult. But that's your
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job as a coach now, especially with the transfer portal nil and all of
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that, to make sure that you're doing what you need to do and rules
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very very process oriented, as he talks is and his conference is often very
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process oriented. I think that probably on the Wisconsin said there's a little less
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patience for it because they fired Paul Chris five games into last year and he
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was two and three, and the year prior to that they were nine and
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four, or I guess eight and four if you don't count the ball game
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that they won. So they, like I said, they kind of did
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what we did when we fired bow Lean. You were like, ah,
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we just can't get over the hump, but we're winning, and then they
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fire a guy who's winning, and now it's like, well, we're not
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winning now. Well it's like, yeah, that's what happens when you fire
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a guy who wins and you're bringing a whole new system. So there's probably
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a little more frustration of pressure on that side. As far as wisconsincern Wisconsin
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fans, I guess where Wisconsin fucked up is they should never fire Bilma.
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You're right. I don't know why they ever did. I can't remember why
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they did, if he was started los or what, but it should never
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fire to him. What I was reading was Blima didn't like how much control
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Barry Alvarez wanted in the program, and Belima went to Arkansas basically because he
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didn't want Barry alva as involved. The word that keeps coming up anytime you
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talk about these new hires and retaining coaches is the word winning. And that's
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something that is stressed a lot in the coaching circle. And I think rule
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has a good grasp on it's not about how you win, it's that winning
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matters. Unfortunately, where we're at right now is we've lost a couple in
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games that you know, you don't beat yourself, you win those games,
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and that beat yourself part is something we're very familiar with over the past few
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years. And we have two games now that again are both winnable in their
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own way, but they're very important. I mean, if you lose both
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of these games, it's not gonna be a pretty off season. Now,
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Husker fans will make it into somehow us winning an offseason Natty title. Again,
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we'll find a way to do that, but it's gonna be rough heading
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in to the offseason, not making a bulgin going five and seven, and
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you have to we have to win one of these. I mean, these
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games are even more important than going into the year now because of what this
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year could have been with such an easy Big ten West schedule. So like
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talks a lot of good stuff about winning, and he did when we were
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winning, but yeah, ultimately now we we haven't the last two games,
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and so there's the flip side of that that whose fall is it? And
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if you guys listen to rules press conference. You kept saying it's on me.
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Everything falls on me, Everything falls on me. So did did you
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guys listen to that or what were your thoughts on that? Because I mean
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he did it over and over and talked about how everything falls on him,
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So like, what what are your thoughts on that? Because I have my
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opinions here. Yeah, one hundred percent, that last game is all on
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him, or whoever made that play call. I'm guessing's him made the play
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call, because he's at least I bet Sackford made the play call, and
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he just didn't say no. That's by why he's saying it's all on him.
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But whoever made that play call, that's that was probably the Dumond's play
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call all year. By mile, you cannot you take that field goal,
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honestly, kneel that ball, kick the field goal and put your defense back
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on the field. I mean, well, and you can't kneel the ball
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like you you're not kneeling the ball with three minutes left. You can run
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the ball. But I could not imagine just the irateness of people if he
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just went up there three times at the five yard line. I could totally
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fine you're right, it would have worked better. But I think he said
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just because there's a lot of heat on the quarterbacks, there's a lot of
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heat on sadderfield, and he's just like, this is I mean, that's
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what he has to say to be like, we're not gonna We're not doing
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this. We're not just gonna start to be reactionary to the last two games
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when it's it's a team game and yeah, the quarterback's fucked up and centerfield
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probably called a better play and that's all you guys want to talk about.
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But we're moving on to Wisconsin, and if you want to blame someone,
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blame me. But we're not gonna isolate people and single them out for their
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mess ups. That's my hunch. I didn't mind how we did it.
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Like I agree with taking the blame piece of it. And you're right,
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whatever the play call, whatever that is, it falls on Yeah, you
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can say it falls on the head coach. And like, I think that
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thought makes sense. What I did not like about this press conference and he's
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done it multiple times now, it was thirty six minutes long, and he
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just feels it just feels like he rambles on he's trying to like explain something
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or counter something that really isn't even there. And when he talks about this
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like it's what it was Monday. So I get it, a lot of
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questions about what happened on Saturday and having but it just seemed like he was
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trying to defend. He looked, honestly a little bit stressed, more so
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than he ever has, trying to again just explain himself. I don't like
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that. I get to the point, get what you need to say,
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say it well, and move on. And I think our first loss,
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I believe against Michigan it was very short and quick and to the point and
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all right, move on, But it's just felt like it just lingered on
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way too long than it needed to be. And and I hope that doesn't
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then carry over into the locker room with the players, because after a game
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like that, you have to get refocused, you have to dial back in
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now I know you do, to address all the fans and the whatever.
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I mean, he clearly pointed that out too, but I don't know.
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I just wasn't a big fan of the way it was delivered this time.
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And that's one of the first times I with rule. You know, I'm
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not happy with it. Now, I will say this one thing that I
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small thing that he does that it's intentional and I really like that he does
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it. Several times he throws in nuggets about well on the current roster that
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are young, or talking about recruits about retaining them, and I can't remember
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his specific examples, but saying like Jaylen Lloyd, can you imagine when he's
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a senior, Like he just puts that thought into players minds, and no,
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you're staying here for three or four years, like you were going to
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build and get better every year, and then by the time you get to
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be an upperclassman, like, look what you can do. And I like
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how he's doing that. He's setting the picture for these younger players, because
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that's what matters in these press compsons. Right, Who gives a shit what
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the fans and media think after it, but what are the players taking away
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from it? And I think he did a good does a good job it,
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did a good job of that in this press conference as well, and
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then also taking the blame like, yeah, it's on me. Everything falls
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on me, and we don't need to point fingers on what Scott Frost point
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and a lot of fingers, a lot of fingers. I remember the one
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press conference he's like, I don't coach a defense. Oh man, yeah,
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of course I remember that one that was so bad, just random stuff
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like that, rules like nope, everything falls on me. It's it's mine.
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So at the same time, then you are responsible for losses too,
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right, you're for the wins and losses. He said that, you know
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that fake punt that goes that goes through me. So mixed emotions, I
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think from from what we heard. But uh, we'll see two very very
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very very important games coming up, and it starts this weekend against the Badgers
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of Wisconsin. You w what's what's crazy is these last two games left,
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you have a good shot of making the Big ten style game. You also
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have a shot a good shot make not making a bowl game. I know
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that's not for you. That is how many five of them, I think,
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So something like that. All right, let's look at Wisconsin here a
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little bit deeper. They've they've had some injuries themselves we mentioned there. They're
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trying to find themselves really where they're at, and they are four and a
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half point favorites this weekend. I think the line opened at like seven,
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So that's coming in on the Huskers. Dak already mentioned Tanner Mordecai coming back
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and playing last week after being hurt. Thought it might have been a season
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at ending injury. Braylan Allen and Chez Mlucy there two running backs. Something
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about Wisconsin running backs against Nebraska just scares the living ship out of me.
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Now, our run rush defense is the best that's been in over a decade,
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so hopefully we don't have to deal with that again. But there's just
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still something about going to Camp Randall and just getting rushed for two hundred three
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hundred yards by their running backs that still worries me. That needs to be
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the number one focus in my mind, even though we've done such a good
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job of it, has to continue to do that. And they're expecting brilliant
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Allen back. I believe he didn't play last week, but you should be
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coming back this week. So he averages almost six yards to carry and he's
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there starting running back, So you should be worried about it. That is
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a totally, totally, totally reasonable thing to be worried about. But you
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talk about their running game, guess how many receivers they have. They have
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more receptions than our leading reception leading receiver Billy Kemp. Six is it probably
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a lot five or six? They have four that have more than Billy Kemp,
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but the guy there there will Pauling, their number one receiver has fifty
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six or seve and Billy Kemp has twenty three. Ear lead receiver has twenty
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three receptions. So but we don't throw it, so we don't throw it,
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but usually Wisconsin doesn't either. That's what it's kind of worrying is bringing
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them. Allen's really good on the ground, but they got they have four
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guys who can who have caught the ball more than we any of our guys
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have this year. Well in Wisconsin, as we mentioned, is they're more
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of a spread team. So yeah, they might still have a couple of
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really good running backs. They're still throwing it a lot more than we are.
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It's not gonna be the Wisconsin that we're used to seeing. But they
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also are not putting up points still with the spread offense. The last couple
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of games, they've lost twenty four to ten against Northwestern and Ohio State.
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They did beat Illinois twenty five to twenty one, lost to Iowa, and
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that lovely fifteen to six shootout in the middle of October, Iowa or so
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name it just it's just it's all over the place. Who knows what we're
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gonna get, uh, but it's gonna come down to stopping the run.
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And I think getting pressure on Mordecai back there, that's going to help.
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And our defense is I don't think the issue. I think we all can
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say that we're not too worried about our defense stopping either Wisconsin or Ioway here.
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We gotta find a way to produce points. Yep, how help do
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that? That's why I was thinking why that line went down? They probably
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sell your depth chart like Dann, They might not actually have a quarterback.
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So the line the line went down. Who's it gonna be Saturday? I
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mean, who do we think it's if he's helped? So what if it
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is only Sims healthy? Do they do they honestly consider going all wildcat?
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They put Sims out there, guys. I don't know. I just I
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whatever we do and if we can't turn the ball over and I don't know
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rules. No fear of failure line came out today. It wasn't exactly worded
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that way or Monday. It wasn't worded that way exactly, but like Frost
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did, but there was something the effect that we don't want our guys playing
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with fear. And I'm like all right, And then he said something about
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someone messing up, because what do you want me to do chew him out?
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And I'm like, yeah, kind of like I do want you to
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rip his ass because that's turn the ball over. Like it's frustrating, and
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I don't know how they're addressing it. I have no idea what they're doing
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in practice, he said, you know, real talks about He's like,
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we don't throw interceptions like this in practice. Well, okay, they're happening
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in games though, and Rule said, well, we're working through it.
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We're trying to figure that out. We're solving it. Okay, like that
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you think so I sent that in the text to the center field moving to
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the box. Now being on the sideline coaching, do you think has any
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impact? No, I think that's very menus. I don't I think I
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think media blows that way out of a portion. I really don't think it
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matters. I think he sucks either way. I mean, there's a different
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level of coaching you can do in between plays on the sideline versus in the
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box as the quarterbacks coach. Yeah, I didn't think about that. You
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can communicate better on the sideline. I feel like you can talk. Yeah,
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you can in person talk. I guess to them a lot more.
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Yeah, I do also appreciate that, like the comment was made, we
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don't want to start all over an offense next year with a brand new coordinator
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or a new system, like I get that. And it's not the style,
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guys. The style is not the problem at all. In fact,
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the style what we're choosing to run as plays like is actually probably better than
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expected coming in how run heavy we have been just from a run pass count.
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I will say, I don't think we're right now very creative, and
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the design of plays is not very but we turned the ball over with simple
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points, so real we got I think they're scared to do that. Yeah,
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so and maybe we are, and and maybe that's okay right now.
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So there does need to be development growth with the execution piece of it.
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And yeah, it's just hard. It's when you when you're talking to players
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and you're coaching that way, you know you can't come out and say all
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the players should have to make plays. We've heard that line before, but
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the same time, like that's also somewhat true, like you can have the
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perfectly designed play, just like the third third down play that that's what they
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were talking about, that third down, third and seven from the goal line.
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Real broke down the whole play from each receiver and what their roles were,
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and yeah, well, feel like anyone did anything they were supposed to
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based onf of what he was saying. Yep, And so again, who
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does that fall on? And it's not the is it the players? The
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coaches rule? Say it's on me? Okay, so then find a way
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to fix it. And yeah, I get it. We're in year one,
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we're now moving into game eleven of year one. So if that's that's
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on you, if that's on the coaching staff, then better find a way
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to fix it, because you're not gonna get four years to fix it.
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It's not gonna happen. And you better show progress in the areas that we're
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lacking, which right now everyone would agree that turnovers is our number one problem.
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It has been for a very very very very time. I don't even
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know what our number two problem is. I'm gonna be straight up honest with
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you if you're like, namely, the top two problems were in Nebraska football.
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I really struggle to think of the second one, not that there isn't
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one, but I mean, guys, this is gonna sound real funny,
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but I don't know either. If we lose these next two games and have
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zero turnovers both games, I feel good. I feel great. And that's
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that's that's even saying. If we literally run the ball every time and never
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throw it and still lose, like that's totally okay with because that shows that
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we're at least stressing that and we're not letting them play loose and free,
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and like that is our problem. That is our problem right now. And
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if we're not gonna dress it and say, oh, we don't want them
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to be afraid to make mistakes and if they throw a pick, yeah they
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do. They messed up. Well how they mess up? Why they mess
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up? Like you gotta they gotta get down to the why behind it to
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figure it out. So turnovers again, don't if you don't turn the ball
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over, don't beat yourself. That's what's going to establish his team as a
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good team. So okay, Dak, I know you have a game prepared
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for us. I thought when you said that in our text as we were
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prep and I reminded me of Saw. So maybe it's like a solid game.
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What do you got for? Well? How how much timing? I
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left the It is my favorite for Sunday. You've got six minutes. Okay,
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here we go. Who where will these guys be playing class coaching next
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year? You can say NFL or whatever? College? Here we go,
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Jim Harbaugh, Michigan. We name the team or the NFL or college.
32:21
If you say NFL, you stay NFL college. You guys say the team
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Michigan. I'll go NFL. All right, let's go uh Shador Sanders alight?
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SEC team? Uh? MISPI State? All right? Jane Daniels,
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I'm gonna say, are you saying elis NFL? NFL? I mean Jalen
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the Kansas quarterback? You want me to stay Nebraska? Uh? Uh?
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In this still? No, he's gonna he'll be in the portal somewhere.
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I don't I don't know where he's gonna end up. I don't know.
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I'll say some SEC school, all right? Last three here, Dion Colorado.
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I don't see a lot of movements. He's going He's going to State
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or Texas A and m all right, Dylan Gabriel, NFL, Yeah,
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NFL, Oklahoma. Last one, Jeff Simms, ohere Nebraska switch to switch
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to d end or safety, he'll be on the well Josh Well, Jeff
33:47
Simms ever play quarterback? Like anywhere? Again? No, no, outside
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of this year for Nebraska or maybe in desperation mode next year. I can't
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I can't see anywhere that he could even go lower like D two right,
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not even like power I mean you could go to non power five, like
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a group of five school. But even then, I don't think so.
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Would Wesleyan take him Nebraska question? Yeah, I don't know. Probably he's
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a freaking god out there. He wouldn't have to throw the ball. He
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could literally run for three hundred yards a game. Yeah, then he fumble
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it. They couldn't catch him. Are you crazy? Nebraska? Leslian,
34:35
No way, exactly your next next segment here, you got your picks ready?
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Yep? What I added him up? I went five and five the
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week I wrote the NCAA letters, six and five last week. I'm forty
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one and forty on the year. Now, wow, look at you right
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above five hundred. I'm rolling. Sounds like the oddsen Vigers know what lines
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to make and they know who's gambling. All right, one minute on the
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clock. Ready, go all right, we'll start out here. Louisville money
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line against Miami. I don't know how Miami's favorite that I think. I
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don't think Louisville's a good number ten Nation, but they're pretty good. I
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owe you minus twenty four and a half. Agins b Au eight touchdown Dylan
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Gabriel last week, shout out him. Tennessee plus ten against Georgia. I
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I don't think Georgia is that good. They looked really good last week.
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Arizona mine is one against Utah. Arizona is really damn good and Utah ever
35:38
since last tim rising is is downhill. Illinois plus three against Iowa. I
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hope to god Illinois wins that game. I went Nebraska maybe the the championship.
35:49
Can't watch Iowa excellent. Washington money line against Oregon State. I think
35:53
Washington's just better. That's gonna be a hell of a game. I always
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State plus samon against Texas, puck Texas case date my seven and a half
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against Kansas also fuck Kansas take that goal, fos out of the water.
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The Frasco's consent under thirty six and a half, that's gonna be just hell
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of what time? Getting thirty six and last one? Maryland plus nineteen it's
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Michigan. I think Maryland keeps it within seventeen points. All right, Dak,
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no locks of the week anymore? No more? Are you? You
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didn't get by a record on those? Oh? I lost that. I
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went out the window. I feel like if I had a lock of the
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week, you'd be leave the money line, Louisville money line. Yep,
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didn't you say they were favored by ten? No, they're they're underdogs.
36:49
Oh by Miami by half point. I've never saw a spread half point oh
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a half point. So that's the first spread I've ever saw like that.
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All right, what do you go? What are score predictions for Nebraska Wisconsin?
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If you think the unders, it's gonna be a struggle. Damn.
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Oh yeah fourteen Nebraska? Wow? Okay, Yeah, I'm I'm gonna go
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seventeen fourteen Wisconsin. I think I'm taking twenty seventeen Nebraska. I here's why
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I'm scared too. I hate playing teams coming off losses that they shouldn't have
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lost, like bad losses, because then they go into practice extra motivated.
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I just I hate that, and I guess yeah, we were kind of
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like that too in a weird sense. But you shouldn't lose in Northwestern I
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mean ever, especially not at home looking good. They're turning the corner.
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Honestly, if Party trots out, there's a quarterbacks fourteenthen Nebraska. If sim's
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fourteen ten Wisconsin, that down, mark it down. What if Harvard trots
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out? Oh fuck, I don't think there's any shot he comes out there,
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uh more, same as I think he's same as Party fourteen to the
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Nebraska. All right, all right, we'll be back Sunday recap game.
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