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Episode 5.39: Shocked, Disappointed, Frustrated -- Iowa Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Return to Glory podcast. Hunters are but to keep off the road to go
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to Free Tay. What do we want to talk about here today? Boys,
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season's over. The basketball, get into it the basketball. We can
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go there, or we can we can start with the Lady Huskar volleyball team
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clinching the number one overall spot. Did drop got swept by Wisconsin on Friday?
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I wasn't I wasn't gonna mention it, but and the soccer team lost,
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so it was it was a little rough rough spell there. Yeah,
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Friday could have had not happened. I think going to b y us coach
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being the biggest dumbass in the world. God hate that guy, Dak,
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Dak, you better explain that to people, because no one's really what's going
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on here. I think I was the only one in America watching the Oklahoma
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State BYU game. But anyway, so if Oklahoma State would have lost,
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Oklahoma got the Big Oil Championship game rematch against Texas beat their ass again.
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So it's fourth to one on the fifty yard line, by is up.
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B Y is up by three. You know what the dumb ass does,
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punts it and of course Oklahoma State goes down scores, wins, you're five
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and six, play a ship, Dak. I'd love to have your problems
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right now, you know, being upset about not making a conference turner conference
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championship game the last one too, so you can be the championship game then
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Texas and Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State didn't make it, Okay, that'll be
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well, uh yeah, we can talk Ihowa if we want. I will
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say to me, my mind has gone very much onto season long review in
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the next year already just because of the way the game ended and everything that
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comes with it. But we will we will save a lot of those comments,
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expectations, thoughts here for our midweek episode this week. But do you
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want to talk about the Iowa game here a little bit? And then do
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you want to spend some time here talking about Nebraska basketball being seven and oh
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for the first time since nineteen ninety two? Any three? Something like that?
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Not sure? So Huscar football lose is to Iowa last second field goal
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by a backup kicker thirteen to ten. Is another one of those games that
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to meet speechless but at the same time like not surprised, but then also
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angry, like you do want to say, oh my god, why does
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this keep happening? Right? Why? Why? Whatever? In the the
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Nebraska football curse, the one scorer losses, all this stuff, Yes,
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and people say, yes, it takes time to learn how to win.
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And I also agree with that. And a lot of these guys were have
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not won many games. They're part of teams that have lost a lot of
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games. And you can nitpick play here, play there. The bottom line
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is what the score and what the score on the scoreboard says at the end
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of the game. And we lost another Here's my question. I guess with
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all of that, at what point, how long does it take to learn
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to win? What does that mean? Is it? Is it? Yeah?
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It's a process, right, rules very process based. What does that
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mean? And the Iowa game was another example of losing in a quote unquote
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different way, right, and talk about situational football and what rule decides to
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do. I'll echo what I said last week. I think I think the
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medium and the fans got to it. I just I just think that the
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decision making of what was happening late in the game again that I don't know
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if that's truly him or is it or is there a lot of questioning going
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on their late games. I'm not saying that's the sole reason why I've lost,
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but that was where my head was at immediately following the game. I
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guess my head, I mean, the falling game is like it just it
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straight up takes talent to lose that way so many times. Like it's it's
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impressive. It really is. Like I I went over because I was watching
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the game the in laws in Kansas, and obviously I was pretty much the
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only one watching this game, and no one really cared. And you know,
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two men's left, we just intercepted the ball or I don't remember,
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it was under two minutes we intercepted the ball, and it's like, hey,
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you know, you guys, well gotta get fifteen more yards and feel
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good. You should be feeling pretty good. It's like I don't think you
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understand. I don't. I don't think you understand what's not to happen here.
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It's just impressive, it really is. I'm awestruck. You know,
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you're you're all sad and frustrated, and I was just in awe. I
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couldn't believe that, Like wow, that's I'm like past that point though,
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because like it's happened so much like, I am in awestruck, but I'm
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like, it's not so much awswared. What happened is the fact that it
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keeps happening. If that makes Yeah, it's incredible. You're probably speachs because
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you can't even feel your face by that point it's so cold. Oh,
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I wasn't at the game, you know what. I dressed very warm for
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the game. I was very I wouldn't even say its overdressed. I was
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perfect. I really didn't get too cold during the game, And I thought
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the environment was pretty pretty impressive for the circumstances of that game. But it
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was it was a big game, and yeah it was cold and black Friday,
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but it had big implications obviously for going to a ball game. That
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is very very important. I mean, talk about the one of the most
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important things this year. At the beginning of the year, we needed to
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make a ball game. And then there was anyone interested, Like we went
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against five and seven. We have already been ruled out, Minister before us.
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There's only one one team that won five and seven. Team that was
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UH Minnesota that jumped in. So yeah, we aren't going to to watch
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them. The season's over and obviously the ball game is important. But when
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we're five and three after October right like that is, there was a lot
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of talk, including us, about all the one out how it could play
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out. We just needed to win one more game and we didn't do that
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and the fact that that happened again is very disappointing and it's frustrating to me
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the future of this Matt Real program. I think that it doesn't end it,
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so it doesn't destroy it, but it does. It takes a step
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back because you're missing additional time to build your culture, your program, your
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process, all that stuff that he talks about. We're getting there, you
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know. Well, yes, same language, guys that we've heard with Scott
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Frost. I get it. It's very different. I'm not saying that we're
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there, coach Ruler. We are with Frost, but that extra month,
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month and a half is huge and we didn't get that done. And that
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is it might be a relief, I guess, because it's so frustrating Husker
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football fan, but no, it was needed this year like that needed to
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happen, and that's why these last four games are so freaking important. And
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it felt like we took a step back by the end of the year,
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it felt like we were a step ahead of where we expected the rebuild to
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be at at the three quarters of the two quarters of the two thirds of
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the way through the season. That was the issue. It's like, oh,
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okay, we've already made this leap. Not I shouldn't say, but
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we've already We've already taken that step to where like, Okay, we're gonna
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be competitive in all of our games and we're gonna win the games we should.
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We we quote unquote found the ways to win, like we found a
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week we learned how to beat Northwestern in Illinois, like we can win those
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games. And granted, Wisconsin Iowa maybe are a little bit better than those
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teams, but I don't know the Maryland, Michigan State are. And it
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felt like for what we thought we learned, we took that step back again
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of now, okay, now do we know how to win again? I
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don't know. It was a fitting way for the seniors to end their career
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for I don't know what seniors there are I guess that are leaving, but
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it was Yeah, it was a bummer, big bummer, Big Dak.
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If you were the head coach of Nebraska, what would you have done differently
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on Briday? Oh boy, you know I would have Okay, first thing
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I would have done again, For the love of God, can you run
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the well, the scene's over now, but run the fucking option. Jesus
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Christ, once again? Not once again. I'm sitting there. I'm sitting
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there with everybody. I watch it with all Husker fans, and we're sitting
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there like, why do they not run the option at all? I get
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Bertie's guy, he's growing whatever the hell's are on them, but not one
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time, and they've ran up the gut every single time, Like what do
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you do? I do think the option involves a lot of decision making by
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your quarterback, and regardless of if it works, sometimes I think that does
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put more thinking into our quarterback's hands. I think we know what happens when
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that is done with whoever the quarterback was this year, I will say at
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the end of the game, there wasn't really like a moment where it was
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like that was a obvious dumb decision. I don't really remember a moment in
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the game like in the past game where it's like, well, what the
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heck are we doing? I didn't really have that moment outside of wasn't there
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wasn't there a time out situation beginning of the first half, so I can't
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remember. I was kind of mad about I was kind of like, what
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do you had to take a time out because we ran out? We ran
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out our kicker late or something. Yeah, there was something there, and
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I think we were just gonna try to draw off sides anyways. Yeah,
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I think there's a little something there. And then I mean, I guess
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that last drive, like the decision to throw it, I get we were
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trying to again play a little bit aggressive. I still wanted to go to
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overtime, but then I also caught myself. I'm like, well, we
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don't win it overtimes. Maybe we do want to try to win this now,
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right, And we only had to get in field goal Like I think
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they just wanted to move it up to field goal range. Wasn't say on
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a field goal range. I think they would have been conservative. Yeah,
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and it was a perfectly designed defensive play with the linebacker just literally stunting and
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jumping. I mean he was sitting right there and Hubba didn't obviously see him
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at all. But to me, what it comes down to there guys coming
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down to win the game, you gotta make the field goal with five minutes
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to go to go up three, and once again that place goes nuts and
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I was not fucking scoring the ball. They're not going to but you failed.
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That momentum shifts again, all right, and then what happens. We
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saw what happened. So the combination of a lot of little things, just
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like the Wisconsin game that I think added up, and you don't. You
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don't get a win on one thing I've liked doing, and maybe you get
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done the same thing. I know, Dak, you've shared this with us,
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but you have to give a shout out to two four to seven Huskers
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because that's been a very very nice way on Twitter to get a recap of
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press conferences, game notes, just key points, and they've done a really
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good job of summarizing it. So, I mean rules press conference. I
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thought following the game was very He was defeated. He he had defeat in
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his tone, as he probably should end of the year, like you know,
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hate the hate the way that it ended. Had our chances down the
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stretch weren't able to make it happen. Obviously, need to go back and
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watch the tape talked about the turnovers again and the number of close losses and
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and losing by field goals, Like to me, it's all stuff that we
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know. And the whatever right fully said, the question is going to be
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how are we going to fix it? And that's exactly where we were at
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with Frost when we had close losses a lot of those years. How are
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we going to fix it, how we're going to get over it? And
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what does that look like? No one's gonna have the answer to that.
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And you hope that rule they got they have a plan, right, but
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they also got to be thinking, well, Ship, what the hell happened
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if Iowa is not that Iowa. Some of these teams don't make mistakes because
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they also make mistakes. They just make fewer mistakes than us to win these
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games. Iowa. Deacon Hill's fucking horrible. That guy is so bad.
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They love sixty eight like he is huge one of the worst quarterbacks I've ever
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saw played. I can't believe that they literally have no one else on their
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roster like this is the guy, Like if they had a better quarterback,
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because every receivers were open. It's not like it wasn't the bad design plays.
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Well, there were a couple of times where the ball just straight up
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hit the receivers in the hands, Like, yeah, it's all these Big
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ten quarterbacks, right, They're not put throw our quarterbacks in there too,
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No, we don't. There's not there's not elite quarterbacks in the Big ten,
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Big Ten West, and we knew that. And they all make mistakes.
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They all look horrible, like no one's gonna be perfect. It come
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down to one making fewer mistakes and your opponents and then capitalizing on the opportunities
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that you get when you do force a turnover. And I thought our defense,
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like they've done all year, two blocked field goals. I mean,
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shit, you blocked two field goals and you still lose a football game like
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that. That can't happen very often, like they so told me. I
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texted you, and you obviously gave me the classic Austin response when I said,
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like, I really don't know how to fee about this game, because
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it's like, we blocked two field goals, but then we had we had
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a punt in the side the one yard line, but a field goal.
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We had some shitty punts too. It's like, yeah, you saw like
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that punt was like, oh my god, like we actually had this thing
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figured out like this, You're right. If we won that game, it
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was because of Brian Bushini punt And they were right down in the end zone,
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which is a blast because I was like three rows up, literally right
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on top of them, just yelling at Deacon Hill the whole time. It
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was a lot of fun. But that that moment, you're like, Okay,
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we got this. We we do some we have made some good plays,
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but still when it comes down to it, and and yeah, you
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talk about Nebraska, but also Iowa. Iowa finds a way to win these
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fucking games every single week. And the craziest way possible is Kirk Parents the
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big ten coach of the year. You're not getting yes, he definitely maybe
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gotta have a deal the devil Iowa. How ab hell with these games,
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they have no offense at all, like zero, and they they always just
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find like I sitting there, I'm like I was gonna find this is the
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perfect Iowa game. They're gonna find a way to win this and it just
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happens the same way every time. Yeah, No, last recession was just
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the worst part was the Tommy Hill freaking intercests the ball and you're like,
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oh my gosh, he played great. He did. I was like,
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this might happen, Like we just intercepted the ball. That doesn't happen,
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and then we had the holding penalty so it gets called back a little bit,
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which is but like, okay, you know that'll happen. These are
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defenders. And then just a back bread Oh my gosh, I can't believe
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through that interception and then fact that we were favored by three or two and
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a half. I'm like Vegas knows something, Like I know. I was
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traditionally known for winning every close game in Nebraska, is known for losing every
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close game. But Vegas knows something or two and a half point favors.
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They know something. No Vegas is wrong. It was like we just couldn't
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stop them on that last It's all right, we've all got them on the
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edge of field goal range. We can hold them. And then they had
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just one big run right at the middle. That sucked. What a gosh,
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what a bummer. It was such a sad game. Yeah, it
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the game itself. I sad, frustrated. Whatever the implications though that I
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think it has on this team is more than we realize right now, right
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now, it hurt, sucks, and we're actually used to obviously not going
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to a ball game and used to our season being over at the same time
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of the year for the last six years, Like we're used to this,
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but I think this year it's bigger than we even realize right now, the
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implications of what it's going to have on the off season. And yes,
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there's a lot of good things coming out of ty Robinson returning and some of
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these guys seniors talking really highly of this staff, like that's great, that's
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awesome. I hope that all again carries into the off season. But you
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talk about a a morale standpoint heading into off season spring workouts, like jeez,
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versus going to a ball game and eat one. E've been going to
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a ball game, but two winning a bowl game potentially, like think about
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your morale there versus what it is now of Oh my god, again you
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start to think in question all right, like this is the process of what
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the coaches believe and this is what we're doing. I'll mak what you think.
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That's what you think rule does better than from us, right, terrible
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motivator and you in theory, I think we both are. All three of
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us believe that Rule is a much better motivator of people than Frost is,
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and leader of men and leader of men, that's going to be more important
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this steason because I think you'll be able to see a bigger leap going into
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next year. Don't want to get too much into end of your stuff,
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but first what Frost did where it just felt like that defeat carried over year
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over year, And that's what we're trusting, right and talking about drinking a
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Rule aid. That's what we're putting our faith and that's what we're That's what
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we are seeing with Matt Rule as a football coach. Is that piece of
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the relationships, the leader of men getting guys to believe and trust in what
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they're doing. That's the first side of it. The second side of it
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then is what that again, process, belief, system, identity, all
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those words, what is that? And I think it was more clear this
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year what we were trying to do offensively. I think he has a vision,
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I think, but I'm not solidified and I don't know that Rule.
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I don't know that they truly believe in what they're trying to do yet.
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And yeah, obviously there's a fine line of tweaking and adjusting your your current
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beliefs and system and adapting and all of that, but also whatever your roots
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are and your firm ground beliefs, like that has to be your core.
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And again I don't have specific examples, but that's towards the end of the
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year, I thought some of that might have got a little bit faltered.
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And then that was just the feeling I had that maybe rules beliefs and his
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thoughts of how to build a program he's starting to one. It's harder Nebraska
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to do than Baylorn Temple. We all knew that. I think he knew
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that, but the pressure and the outside influences, like it helps you really
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ground yourself and what do I truly believe in? And how am I going
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to get this program to win games at Nebraska? I mean, the other
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the other programs that he's built, he had much worse first seasons than did
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the first season. So you're hoping that that the way that this year ended
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doesn't necessarily impact what he thinks. I mean, I shouldn't say that,
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but I'm trying to basically say, is the way that this year ended should
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take away from the good that this year produced, because I think we're all
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we're happy. We were more happy to have a Huskar fan this year than
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we were last year. The main thing is you you know what your main
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problem is and you you hope you can fix its turnovers. Yeah. No,
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I because I was I was asking people. I was like, if
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you cut your turnovers just in half, how many games think you would have
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won this year? Yeah? I mean seven, eight, Like you're you're
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you're talking a lot. You're looking at the season a lot differently that that.
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So, yeah, Dak, that's a very simple answer. But you're
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smart offwa the fumble and the game ceiling and interception again, your offensive strategy
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or identity or I mean, I think we can all agree our defense was
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twice three times better than what we expected it to be. Yes, offense,
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yeah, did not get better. But at the same time, people,
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you know, do you rule set it? And I I like,
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as an answer to that, like we want to go in and change,
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we want to fire an offensive coordinator and start a brand new system. Do
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we want to reset everything on offense? No, I don't think we do.
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I think we've got to build on what we have. We need to
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get a better quarterback. Talk about that in the off season here. I
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mean, I think that's probably one thing, But I also I'm not a
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believer right now that we need to get a freaking top ten quarterback in the
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country. There's no with what we're trying to do, we don't need that.
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It's truly guys we have right now without turning the ball over. And
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I know there's a lot of things that go into turning the ball over,
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decision making, just situational stuff, and yeah, talent just truly being able
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to throw a good passer or not or hang onto the ball. But that
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whole thing. I think we're going to continue to build on that. And
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if we fix the turnover thing, this offense looks completely different. And the
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big ten to West bad offense is right, We're one of them. We're
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no longer bad. We're just averager mediocre now, which again, with a
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strong defense, it's going to win you a lot of games. Yeah,
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and we the run game was good this year, Like they actively tried to
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establish the run. It just didn't work out when we needed when we got
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stupped a couple of times and we had to pass the ball and then we
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couldn't pass the ball. But I totally agree. I don't think they shoot.
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Shouldn't want to be starting over anywhere because we cut those there's a clear
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I should say player. But the major issues I think again, I'm trying
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to get into off season the next year, but just looking at the offense
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from the Iowa game, it was our special teams are kicking unit. If
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we could get better field better field goal percentage. I think we all think
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Tristan's good, I mean speaking, just give him a little bit more of
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that. What is it the second time you press XO when you're playing Madden?
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Is that the accuracy? And then that miss? Though, no,
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he wasn't, but he was good from fifty five? Yeah, I was.
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But walking out there, I in the back of my head like there's
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no just how the rast football is, there's no shits making this, but
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he already hit one from that distance. It's like I know, And that
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was my thought too, of like nope, I was like, we're favored
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by three. Is that the Vegas nos this is going in? This thing
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is getting And I was, guys, I'm sitting right behind the left goal
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post where that thing missed left right when that ball up is what I'm like,
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fuck Christ, Like it's it took less than a half a second for
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the ball to lead the foot. I'm like, oh my god. Oh
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she's like, oh kicking the field I mean, you know, you guys
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take a lead here. It's like, I don't think you understand this guy
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is She's like, you already hear that distant earlier, didn't he? And
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I was like he did, he can miss this one by twenty five yards,
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Like nobody's business. I think, Austin, what you just said,
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Like all those things are very well known problems or issues. I mean,
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turnover, special teams. I think that they're glaring right right, the quarterback
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play, Like those things need to get better. So no one's going to
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argue or disagree with those things. It's the how are we gonna do and
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how we're gonna get it done? And that's something thing that we don't know
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how that's going to get approached. And that's when the coaching staff has to
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figure out. And again you're trusting a coaching staff to fix these things that,
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Yeah, how do you fix a guy from turning the ball over?
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Well, I don't know, Like I would have a I know what my
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approach would be, and that may be different than what you think your approach
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would be. And the person after that, and how do you how do
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you how do you start stop shaking punts? Well, I don't know.
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Like again, a solution is getting a better punter or getting you know,
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getting a better quarterback. That doesn't that's that's a possible solution, right,
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But that's that's what coaching is in college football. That's what rule and staff,
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that's what they're paid the money to do, and that's what they that's
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what they say they build programs on. They build programs on coaching talented high
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school athletes. Yep. And on top of that, when rule came in
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here, what was the number one thing that he said? Not number one,
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but one of the main things he said, We're going to be we're
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going to be in control of the clock or the you know, the run
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game, and we're going to take care of the ball. Well, this
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is the worst year that we've ever had of taking care of the ball.
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So whatever his thought process was, right of how he's going to solve that
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didn't work, Like it did not work. That show did not work.
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So how are we going to fix that? And change that if that's what
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his true belief is and is on his teams, that we're going to take
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care of the ball. Okay, that's a very common thing to say.
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Every football coach in the world's going to say, Yeah, we need to
26:30
take care of the ball. That's obvious. How are we going to do
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that? And what what does that mean? Because it need to get better
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players. Do we need to coach them differently? Do we need to have
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a different style of play calling so we don't put ourselves in the situation to
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turn it over? And it could be all the above. I don't know,
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but we need to see that that progress, I guess going in to
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our first few games next year, because we didn't see that the last five
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and that's where the frustration comes in is it didn't get fixed. It didn't
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seem like if it was addressed, it didn't work. However it was addressed,
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I mean it kind of worked against Wisconsin. I mean maybe maybe it
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was when we put our quarterback in the last couple of games. Is when
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we put our quarterback in position to where he had to make plays that he
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couldn't. Even in your wins, you still turn the ball over like crazy
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though he won thirty one to fourteen turnover five times. Yeah, you refused
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along the ball the whole year. That was your main problem. I mean,
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I guess, yeah, turnovers are going to happen, and if you
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look at if you wanted to go back and watch them, it'd be kind
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of fun to see if somebody made a clip of all of our turnovers on
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the year, how many of them were aggressive like turnovers you're maybe okay with,
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versus ones that are just like literally like chubb Us where we just like
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dropped the ball, like literally just dropped it as he was running, like
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those kind of thing that turned on. I missed the first quarter because I
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was outside doing something and then I came in. I was like, all
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right, and probably miss first quarter. You know, we'll see what the
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damage is. Very first play. I watched the freaking bubble fight Trevor like,
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oh, was literally dropping the ball. So it would be kind of
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fun to see, Like, you take all of the called unforced turnovers out,
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but you know the snaps and the exchanges in the backfield that are you
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just ball drops like or the interceptions that there's a lot of them that were
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just like that was not that was not a good risk take there. That
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was just a really bad pass. So I do think even in basketball too,
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right, there's you know, team has ten turnovers. I think there's
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some turnovers that are good turnovers if you're being aggressive and and you throw a
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good back door cut pass that just goes off your guys foot, like hey,
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something you might live with, right, versus a person just randomly traveling
28:56
without any defensive pressure. I think there's that's two different types. And I
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think yeah, both obviously on football field, and if you clean up the
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unforced ones, I do I think, I think you're you're you're winning more
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games or at least putting yourself in a lot better position to win games.
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Dames for sure had ten at least double digits on forced turnovers this year alone.
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I felt like he didn't even play that much he did. I mean
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the first three games alone, he had five on forty four games. Yeah,
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I don't. God, damn quarterbacks. We fucked two field goals and
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we've lost. Yeah, that's sucks. I mean, guys, did you
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say party by far? Look the best quarterback of the season even though you
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played two and a half games there two games he did by far those three,
29:52
he looks solid. Again, my opinion on those quarterbacks hasn't changed.
29:56
They're all two three out of tens on the rankings. And yeah, Chubba
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did some good things and made some plays, but he's not a kind of
30:03
liked Heinrich a little better though, because I think he committed. I think
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all quarterbacks you still get a two, three, four game surprise for the
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other teams. They don't as much film on you. You're you know,
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you get experiment as coaches a little bit with them on the I think we
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got that with Chubba too. And I think do I think Chubba could do
30:22
a serviceable job? Yeah, I think so, But is that what I
30:27
want? No, it'd be nice to get somebody better challenge him at least,
30:32
And I think that's what we're going to be going after here. And
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I think that's probably pretty known. I would think in the locker room.
30:37
I don't think rules saying Chubba, you're our guy next to number one.
30:40
Like, I don't think that's the message you're saying to Chubb after the year's
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over. Oh, definitely not so. Like I think, yeah, he
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did some good things and he made some plays, like yeah, great job,
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Chubb. But at the same time, is that what we want.
30:53
I think we want something a little better than that. Again, I don't
30:56
think we need an elite guy, but we need something a little better and
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shove up. But he did what he needed to do. I thought two
31:04
put us a position to win less turnovers, I mean, take those out
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of there. And Kava did some good things. So who knows. Tomorrow
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the portal opens up, yep, portals be open and and we'll see.
31:22
I think, I mean, we'll talk on Wednesday a little bit too.
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But I think there's a checklist here that Hoscar fans are gonna want from coach
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ruling staff here, and I mean, we can go through that more on
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Wednesday. But I would say one thing up there, pretty high in the
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list is keeping Tony White around and and whatever we have to pay him,
31:44
we need to pay him, because, yeah, what what he did on
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the defensive end of the ball this year, which was one of the biggest
31:49
question marks right of how this defense is going to do and work in the
31:53
Big ten, did a tremendous job with them and was the reason we were
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in and and won the games that we did win. What did you think,
32:01
I know we didn't meet midweek last week. What do you think of
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rules comments on the head coaching jobs, because clearly he's because they said San
32:08
Diego State had called Tony White about being their head coach. The Rule kind
32:13
of basically came out and said like, hey, like, you know,
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I'm gonna be a good reference. I think you'd make a great head football
32:17
coach. But you know, I'm just letting him know, like, not
32:21
every job worth leaving for. Basically what he said, yeah, and it
32:24
will be interesting, and he talked about resources and having the budget. I
32:30
thought was kind of like a subtle jab at Trev to be honest, well
32:34
it was, and I actually was a little bit surprised at where we ranked
32:37
the Big Ten with that. I think we're twelve out of the eighteen teams
32:42
coming in to next year's conference. It yeah, subtle jab, I guess,
32:49
but but I think a lot of those comments were right, like you
32:52
got to make sure it's the right fit and and you're gonna you're gonna have
32:54
the leadership and resources available to you to allow you to have success. So
33:01
I also think there's the other side of that is, yeah, that you're
33:05
also getting paid however, many millions of dollars and if you truly do care
33:09
about the program and where it needs to go, Like, are you willing
33:14
to sacrifice a little bit of you to keep someone that you really want?
33:17
And I think that's also a fair question. If someone like Tony White truly
33:23
is that valuable and you know that, then are you willing to cut a
33:27
million off of your salary for him an extra? Like? I don't know.
33:30
I'm not saying that needs to be done, but I think that's an
33:31
interesting thing to think about. I agree that, all right, real quick?
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Do you believe that Texa and and I'm interviewed in that rule? No,
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I don't. Other, Yeah, I do. I think he's better
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than the coach. I think he's Yeah, I do. I think what
33:54
they get the coach, they're ready to hire Mark Stukes. Do you think
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he interviewed, oh? Interviewed? Oh? I no, I don't think
34:05
he interviewed. I think they called him. Yeah. I agree, I
34:09
think they're getting Mike Elco. It sounds like had Mark Stukes the fans fans
34:15
got all pissed off that went through. I saw a tweet that said Mark
34:17
Stukes is buy out for being the head coach for thirty minutes is twenty two
34:21
million or something like that. I'm like, that's funny. All right,
34:25
Nebraska basketball, we gotta get to touch on some things here because we do
34:30
have a big game a week from today against Creighton at home. Creighton did
34:34
just get their best kicked by Colorado of State. But Nebraska basketball seven and
34:37
zero and playing really well right now. Now say that because our opponents and
34:43
our schedule have not not been of quality as maybe we've seen in some previous
34:49
years. But we're looking good in those games and we're doing what we need
34:52
to do. We've lost some of these games before, We've been in dogfightes
34:55
with these teams, and we're really doing a great job of taking care of
35:00
business. And I went to the game today. I want to say this,
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guys, this team, and there's an article written about it in one
35:07
of the papers are online this week. This team is playing together like with
35:15
each other and supporting each other, and when guys are out on the bench,
35:19
it is it is a very community based group right here. And we've
35:23
we talked about the cancers that we've had on our last teams that maybe had
35:28
a lot of talent, but brought a lot of individualization to the team.
35:37
Jam mac Alonso Verge. Not to throw out some names here, but there's
35:39
been some pieces there that again it makes it a little bit hard. This
35:44
group is not doesn't have any of that, and they are very impressive to
35:47
watch them play within each other and together on the court, and they did
35:53
that again today watching them in person. There's there's a lot of good things
35:58
here and what the continue to talk about Nebraska basketball here the next few months
36:01
because I think this could twenty four and six, but I think I think
36:08
there's some pieces here that could be could be a tournament potential team as we
36:16
move into conference play. No, I agree. My brother said rank mass
36:21
raises our floor and raises our ceiling. Yeah. I like that comment a
36:25
lot, and I think that, I mean, it's true if they're all
36:30
going like my concern going forward once he has a big ten, play is
36:34
going to be size for sure, because we're pretty small and teams are playing
36:37
right now don't have a lot of size. We're really not though, I
36:39
mean we don't have against the big ten. I'll say our guards are a
36:45
little bit tiny, but we're long, we're strong. Like Juan Garrett looks
36:50
like a thirty two year old guy in men'sley, So just rank Mass looks
36:53
like a guy you don't want to be facing in the post like at all
36:57
in men's ley. Like those guys are their physical and Bryce Williams is long
37:01
and athletic. I think our lineups might look a little different, Like I
37:06
think it will be hard to play a Sam Horberg and JaMarcus Lawrence and Case
37:08
like those three year old, very small guards. Like I agree with you
37:13
with those guys, but the rest of the team, like Boogie Williams is
37:16
he's a solid or Brookie Coleman, he's a solid. He's a solid wing
37:22
like he is, and I think he's only going to get better too,
37:24
with how young he is. Case might not be your best player, which
37:30
if you see that coming into hear that you think that be insane. I
37:34
don't think he is the best player. No, you might. I'm the
37:37
top two. I mean, yeah, guys, there's a lot of pieces
37:42
there and it's exciting. We can talk more about the Creighton game here on
37:45
Wednesday, because that's gonna be a I don't know what the spread is going
37:50
to be on that, but I we're going to be at home. I
37:52
mean, I think we'll be surprised. It might be lower than we think,
37:55
Like Creighton will still be favored ob basically, I mean they got thump
37:59
Bill out of state. He did so all right. We'll be doing more
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of a season recap episode on Wednesday, going through some of our key takeaways,
38:08
things we've learned, things we want to learn heading into the off season,
38:12
and talk a little Nebraska Creighton rivalry in basketball. Go be gread vire,
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