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The Unforgettable Season · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast, Hunter Sharp, Austin Rose, Dakota, Freed
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Speaker 1: Tech Season seven finale, wrapping up our seventh year of podcast, and.
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Speaker 2: We got a lot to talk about basketball, football, baseball, softball,
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Speaker 2: all the likes here in Husker sports. I think the
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Speaker 2: biggest hottest topic is basketball season coming to a close,
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Speaker 2: losing to Dare I say their name? I don't even
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Speaker 2: I'm going to down in Houston. I went down to
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Speaker 2: the game, made the drive on Wednesday, got down there
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning. Was not okay See level, but still very
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Speaker 2: very impressive turnout. Houston's laid out very differently than okay
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Speaker 2: See is and and then we all know by this
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Speaker 2: point how the game ended up Sweet sixteen.
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Speaker 3: That going to do? Wait before you checked out on
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Speaker 3: a Hunter.
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Speaker 4: I don't you know. I don't think I texted him
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Speaker 4: that night.
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Speaker 3: I might here. I didn't text anyone that night.
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Speaker 4: I want I think no I did. I texted him.
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Speaker 4: He said, everyone there is so sad walking down the stadium.
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Speaker 3: As it should be.
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Speaker 5: I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I said sad. I think more
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Speaker 2: pissed off was what I said.
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Speaker 4: You called it, Austin, though you were worried about Iowa.
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Speaker 3: I was not.
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Speaker 4: I was not, and I got I got think I had.
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Speaker 3: It was losing by seven and we lost by six.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, but I can see why you were scared.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 4: It sucks.
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Speaker 5: I still to off to that point. You know, whether
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Speaker 5: you play Florida or Iowa.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I still think obviously for the sake of
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Speaker 2: winning the game playing on.
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Speaker 3: You would rather play Iowa.
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Speaker 2: But the feeling of what happened after the game was
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Speaker 2: exactly what we didn't want to happen, was having this
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Speaker 2: miraculous season come to an end at the hands of
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Speaker 2: the Iowahaw guys that you know, historically best season ever
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Speaker 2: in Nebraska basketball. Yet the team just to the east
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Speaker 2: of us that claims they have better corn steps in
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Speaker 2: our way, not a not a twenty seven and five
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Speaker 2: iowahawkeyed team, that top ten team, a nine seed that
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Speaker 2: caught fire here towards the end of the year and
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Speaker 2: takes game three from the three game series that we
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Speaker 2: had with them here this year.
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Speaker 3: It was really more of how it went down. You know.
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Speaker 6: It was a game that we started out as well
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Speaker 6: as we could have started. And I will also, I mean,
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Speaker 6: I shouldn't say that because I also started out incredibly
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Speaker 6: warm when they're shooting. But we got up ten early
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Speaker 6: and we held on to a lead for most of
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Speaker 6: the game, and then the three point shot disappeared and
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Speaker 6: then it just fell apart in the last three minutes,
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Speaker 6: and then of course the four person on the court
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Speaker 6: for the easy dunk for the five point leads, six
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Speaker 6: point lead, I don't.
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Speaker 5: Remember what it was, and yeah, the free throw made
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Speaker 5: it sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 6: Really just how it happened. If it if we lost
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Speaker 6: in a competitive game, like it was a competitive game,
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Speaker 6: but it was more of us just falling apart. It
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Speaker 6: wasn't it wasn't like I always doing anything incredible. We
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Speaker 6: were doing incredible. It was just we just the wheels
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Speaker 6: fell off and we did not recover, and the last
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Speaker 6: ten seconds of the game was just you know, permian
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Speaker 6: encapsulation of how the second half went was where we
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Speaker 6: shot six times and we basically bricked every three pointer.
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Speaker 2: And we're recording on on Tuesday night, so the game's
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Speaker 2: five game or five days out already, and it took
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Speaker 2: me a couple of days to kind of get myself
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Speaker 2: to go back and say, know, this season was it
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Speaker 2: was a good season, and and and really celebrate and
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Speaker 2: enjoy the success that we had best season in Nebraska
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Speaker 2: basketball history.
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Speaker 5: But I mean, it's stung.
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Speaker 2: It did it did sting for a couple of days.
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Speaker 2: Now talking about it again is digging all that backed
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Speaker 2: up after I finally got myself over it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it hurts.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know about you guys, but I
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Speaker 4: was kind of over at it by Friday. Saturday came
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Speaker 4: around and I saw Illinois I would play. I'm like, God, damn,
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Speaker 4: I wish you were playing one game.
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Speaker 6: I didn't watch a lick of basketball for basically three days.
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Speaker 6: I didn't know who made it to the Final four
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Speaker 6: until Monday morning when I logged in and my work computer,
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Speaker 6: I looked at ESPN. That's how it's man.
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Speaker 2: I was, yeah, yeah, what's weird watching that Illinois, Iowa
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Speaker 2: Gay and all the final four games. Obviously, this year
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Speaker 2: we were in a position to play in those and
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Speaker 2: we're in that conversation where we've never been in our lives.
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Speaker 2: Always March madness in the tournament is something in America
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Speaker 2: that is one of the most watched sporting events, and
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Speaker 2: everybody enjoys it.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: This year was different for Husker fans, because we actually
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Speaker 2: were in the conversation, So you're right, like, I still
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Speaker 2: watched the games this weekend, the second ones, and enjoyed
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Speaker 2: them and as a basketball fan, but it was in
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Speaker 2: the back of your mind that may like we were
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Speaker 2: that close to playing in this game and having a
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Speaker 2: completely different perspective of March Madness, and we did. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we were in the Sweet sixteen, right it was. It
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Speaker 2: was still a very very awesome experience and one that
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Speaker 2: we've never had before. But at the same time, it
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Speaker 2: makes you the what if cards up.
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Speaker 5: There, the what if?
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Speaker 3: What if card? What if?
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Speaker 6: I mean not gonna lie that Thursday I was dreaming.
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Speaker 6: I was like, you know, we could be die with them.
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Speaker 6: You know, we played, you know, we've beaten Illinois, and
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Speaker 6: then all of a sudden, you're in the final four
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Speaker 6: and anything can happen, you know, the wheels it started
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Speaker 6: running a little bit.
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Speaker 5: Let's just say, in the car right on the way down.
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Speaker 2: With my dad, we had a debate on if Nebraska
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Speaker 2: were to win the national championship, wouldn't this be more
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Speaker 2: impressive than the Curt Signetti Indiana turnaround? That was the
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Speaker 2: conversation for fifteen or twenty minutes that we obviously long
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Speaker 2: car ride, but yeah, we were dreaming like we were, Okay,
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Speaker 2: there's four games here, like we we who knows the
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Speaker 2: way we play?
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Speaker 4: Who knows you know. You know what's crazy about it, guys,
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Speaker 4: is it's Nebraska basketball that makes you feel this this way,
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Speaker 4: like this satur whatever, and not ne braske football like
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Speaker 4: never in list so we had. People are still talking
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Speaker 4: about the game five days later, like man, Frank Mass
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Speaker 4: with his threes whatever, like you're still hearing and it's
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Speaker 4: not just us, it's like people all around town and
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Speaker 4: all the friends stuff is still talking about that game.
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Speaker 4: It's crazy as Nebraska basketball did that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, do we need to talk about the
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Speaker 6: specifics of the game where rank Mass just went absolutely
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Speaker 6: ice cold behind the three point.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. I don't need to.
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Speaker 3: I mean.
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Speaker 2: The game the game, like you said, we started off
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Speaker 2: really well, and I give credit to Ben McCollum and
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Speaker 2: IOWA like that.
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Speaker 5: He's a very good basketball coach.
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Speaker 4: Wonderfully he's gone, one.
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Speaker 2: Of the best in the country. Dack says he's gone.
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Speaker 2: Is he actually goes on?
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Speaker 4: No, hopefully he's gone. I hope he goes North Carolina.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think he's going anywhere. He's in Iowa.
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Speaker 5: Midwestern guy at heart.
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Speaker 2: I think he's staying and he's a really good coach,
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Speaker 2: like and he got the most just like Fred got
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Speaker 2: the most out of our guys at several points throughout
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Speaker 2: this year. I think that was too very good basketball
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Speaker 2: coaches that No, we didn't have the the stars and
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Speaker 2: the athletes that a lot of these other final four
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Speaker 2: teams do. Uh and and we were able to make
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Speaker 2: the most of what we had. Iowa did the same thing.
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Speaker 2: It just sucks that again, the opponent is the one
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Speaker 2: that we just we can't every sport we we just
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Speaker 2: we they're so similar to us and probably I shouldn't
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Speaker 2: say probably they have less resources than we do financially overall,
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Speaker 2: like they're they're they're right next door like their arrival
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Speaker 2: for us.
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Speaker 5: Here's the Here's I.
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Speaker 2: Was telling some people this too, the shittiest part about
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Speaker 2: all this, and they're asking, you know where Iowa Iowa
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Speaker 2: fan snarky and where they where they rub it in
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Speaker 2: your face and like as it was a rivalry game
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Speaker 2: and all them like, no they weren't, because they they
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Speaker 2: they they just kick our ass and everything, and we're
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Speaker 2: not even really their number one rival. We we always say,
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Speaker 2: oh we hate Iowa, that right, because we don't play Oklahoma,
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Speaker 2: we don't play Texas, we don't play Colorado year to
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Speaker 2: year in all these sports.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would still plays Iowa State.
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Speaker 2: I think Iowa, Iowa State, Iowa, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 2: the other rivals that are like a bigger deal because
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Speaker 2: the series with them and everything is so much more competitive.
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Speaker 2: That's what's funny is after the game, it wasn't even
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Speaker 2: like like if Nebraska fans, if we would have beat Iowa,
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Speaker 2: yeah we're Nebraska Knights, we would have been just rubbing
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Speaker 2: it in Iowa's face about how we beat them.
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Speaker 5: Iowa fans didn't care. They're like, yeah, we just beat
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Speaker 5: Nebraska because we're just we're gonna beat them in everything
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Speaker 5: we do.
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Speaker 2: That's the part that I just it makes you laugh
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Speaker 2: a little bit and it's like, God, damn, this just sucks.
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Speaker 4: And the part that really sucks to is which I
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Speaker 4: don't know if it's better or worse if you want
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Speaker 4: to pay from that game. I don't know how you
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Speaker 4: guys felt about it. I thought Nebraska did not play
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Speaker 4: that bad. They still lost.
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Speaker 3: No, I mean they didn't. I would did lead until
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Speaker 3: three minutes left in the game.
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Speaker 4: No, let's wish we'll get into that. The reason when
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Speaker 4: Nebraska went to shit is they showed Matt ruling the
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Speaker 4: TV and that's when they went downhill the program Matt ruled.
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Speaker 4: But that's no joke. When they showed him. I think
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Speaker 4: I went on a fifteen to five run after that
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Speaker 4: and that was the end of the game. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's yeah, he needs he needs to get away from that.
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Speaker 4: But but yeah, just thing, and it's the reason why
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Speaker 4: they lost the game is because Rank mastering histories and
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Speaker 4: Sam Wyburg went cold too. But it everybody else played well,
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Speaker 4: I thought, and it just sucks it.
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Speaker 5: And I Dak you kind of said that very bluntly.
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Speaker 2: At the reason why we lost was Rank mass Like
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Speaker 2: I I there's obviously several parts of the game that
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Speaker 2: that determined the outcome. Uh.
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Speaker 5: No, Rank didn't have his best game.
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Speaker 2: Uh. I think Bennett starts, they hit some shots, and
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Speaker 2: some people are just saying.
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Speaker 5: At the end of the game, what what did it
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Speaker 5: come down to?
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Speaker 2: When it was tied up with four and a half
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Speaker 2: minutes to go or three and half minutes to go,
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Speaker 2: Iowa goes four out of five their next five threes
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Speaker 2: and we go over six. Like, no, it doesn't just
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Speaker 2: simply come down to who makes her missus shots. But
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Speaker 2: at the same time, at that point in the game,
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Speaker 2: that's what happened. And it wasn't like we were getting
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Speaker 2: uncontested or contested looks like we were getting some decent
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Speaker 2: looking shots and we just.
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Speaker 3: Weren't breaking this.
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Speaker 2: And and I will say those last few minutes Iowa
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Speaker 2: that they just I could just tell the way they
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Speaker 2: are moving the ball. They finally broke through the Nate
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Speaker 2: Lenser scheme on defense and they were able just to
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Speaker 2: get any open shot they wanted to. They're in that
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Speaker 2: second part of the second half, and that's where it
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Speaker 2: was just hard. It just was cringey like it. Iowa
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Speaker 2: fans were out numbered, you know, four to one by
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Speaker 2: Nebraska fans, if not five to.
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Speaker 5: One there in that arena.
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Speaker 2: It sounded loud, and those Iowa fans got very loud, obviously,
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Speaker 2: as they should. And that that was the hardest part
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Speaker 2: was sitting there and as everything was just spiraling away
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Speaker 2: from us, absorbing that all in and then yeah, just
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Speaker 2: haven't I've been on road games where I've come up
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Speaker 2: with a lot of losses, so I'm used to that
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Speaker 2: part of it. But I, like you said, Austin, kind
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Speaker 2: of the way it happened, how we led for ninety
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Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the game and and ended up
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Speaker 2: just falling apart at the end, it just hurts.
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Speaker 3: I mean absolutely, I mean, yeah, it was. It was
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Speaker 3: really bad.
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Speaker 6: And you know, another thing we talked about, what again
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Speaker 6: the refs did not The refs called the game evenly
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Speaker 6: between two teams, but the way in which the game
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Speaker 6: was called is not favorable to our style of offense,
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Speaker 6: so that they let the which is you know which. Honestly,
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Speaker 6: the game went so quick it was a It was
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Speaker 6: a fun game to watch, and part of that was
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Speaker 6: because they were letting them play it.
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Speaker 3: But it doesn't benefit the team who was less physical.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when on behalf was called with like four minutes
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Speaker 2: left or three minutes left, it I look, we looked
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Speaker 2: at the scoreboards like, holy crap, like it did it
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Speaker 2: just flew by? And I agree, I thought the refs
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Speaker 2: did a much better job this game than they did
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Speaker 2: against Vanderbilt.
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Speaker 5: The Vanderbilt game was just inconsistent and choppy. Uh, it didn't.
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Speaker 5: It didn't feel like the rest are in the way
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Speaker 5: at all this game. It just was officiated.
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Speaker 2: And I do think you know, when you when you
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Speaker 2: get to the NCAA tournament and the NBA playoffs, and
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Speaker 2: I mean, hell, go to football to the players.
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Speaker 5: You want to let the players beside the outcome.
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Speaker 2: Obviously there's an extent where you cross the line in
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Speaker 2: our quote unquote breaking the rules. But I thought the
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Speaker 2: rest officiated the game very well, and it just it
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Speaker 2: they just got enough to us, you know, with the
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Speaker 2: physicality standpoint that that it.
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Speaker 5: Did bother us.
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Speaker 3: So Suns.
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Speaker 4: Still still looking back on into the last couple of days.
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Speaker 4: What a hell of season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just gonna say, I I know, we
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Speaker 5: say you're smoking on Iowa. I think.
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Speaker 2: We have to take a step back, you know, given
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Speaker 2: this is our last episode of season seven for the
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Speaker 2: podcast here and just appreciate this year for what it was.
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Speaker 2: I mean, basketball is a very long season. You know,
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Speaker 2: you start at the end of October, early November and
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Speaker 2: you finish up here at the end of March. Just
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Speaker 2: just an incredible ride and what this team was able
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Speaker 2: to accomplish. I will be the first one to admit
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Speaker 2: myself that I thought this team was not going to
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Speaker 2: be very good, and I thought this is the end
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Speaker 2: of the Fred Hoiberg era. I really did, just looking
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Speaker 2: at our roster what it was made of, I you know,
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Speaker 2: didn't expect I do sandfor it could play. You know,
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Speaker 2: I didn't expect what Price came in and did so
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Speaker 2: quickly for us. I think obviously all these players, the
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Speaker 2: contributions they made were above and beyond not just what
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Speaker 2: I expected, but I think what everybody expected with this
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Speaker 2: team obviously picking picking to finish fourteenth in the Big Ten.
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Speaker 5: So like it's one of those things that.
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Speaker 2: You really got to appreciate that the standard or the
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Speaker 2: new level of standard that they they're setting for the future,
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Speaker 2: and hopefully that leads to some brighter years ahead here
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Speaker 2: in the near future.
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Speaker 4: This team will be the team that Austin tells us
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Speaker 4: good about.
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Speaker 6: Probably come here, Sam, I've got to tell you a
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Speaker 6: story about.
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Speaker 3: No I saw it. So we lost seven games to
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Speaker 3: five teams, and four of those teams made it to
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Speaker 3: the ELITEA. I mean, that's as far as it goes,
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Speaker 3: Like that's a pretty good year to only have seven
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Speaker 3: losses and you know, to five teams eighty percent of
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Speaker 3: them making it to the Elite eight, that's pretty freaking good.
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Speaker 3: And we were right there. I mean, we could have
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Speaker 3: been in the Elite eight.
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Speaker 6: So I'll be interested to see, you know, how this
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Speaker 6: success carries over. Is this a product of having just
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Speaker 6: a group of guys that it works. Is this, you know,
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Speaker 6: as Fred finally figured it out the secret sauce or
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Speaker 6: is it just that one year that everything worked out.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, and I will say that's a big thing.
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Speaker 2: I think, especially with teams like this. You mentioned that
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Speaker 2: things clicked and things quote unquote worked out. I do
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Speaker 2: think having the right mix of players in the locker
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Speaker 2: room and the dynamic amongst the team take take take
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Speaker 2: all of the on the court stuff out of it.
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Speaker 2: I think that matters a lot more than people really realize.
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Speaker 2: You know, today's world is all about recruiting and and
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Speaker 2: the talent and all of this stuff the transfer portal. Like,
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Speaker 2: if you can get the right mix of guys mentally
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Speaker 2: and emotionally playing together and doing exactly what you're trying
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Speaker 2: to accomplish, it can really make a big impact. And
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Speaker 2: I think this is a definition of that team now
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Speaker 2: did you did you figure out kind of to your
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Speaker 2: point outs?
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Speaker 5: And did we figure out what that was? You know?
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Speaker 5: Or was it luck? I you know, you hope it
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Speaker 5: wasn't luck.
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Speaker 2: And we can build the same thing and start then
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Speaker 2: adding maybe some pieces to that have even more talent.
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Speaker 2: And that's where you can be become a consistent UH
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Speaker 2: tournament team and in a consistent top twenty five team
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Speaker 2: in basketball, which obviously we have never been more close
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Speaker 2: to that.
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Speaker 3: You wish that we brought all of our recruits to
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Speaker 3: the Oklahoma game, just be like, hey, you know, just
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Speaker 3: come watch to watch that road environment if you're interested.
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Speaker 4: That's That's another thing, is all these recruits are watching,
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Speaker 4: They're like, man, that that was a cool atmosphere and everything,
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Speaker 4: and and it sounds like which they should do is
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Speaker 4: I should take away all the football money. Who gives
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Speaker 4: a crap about them anymore? But it sounds like Troy
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Speaker 4: Dannon is wanting to throw more money into the basketball team,
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Speaker 4: and I think it's gonna stick around. I mean, look
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Speaker 4: what we got to come back. We got siege in Fragert. Well,
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Speaker 4: you hope frekar Stanford, yep. I think Sanford's pretty much
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Speaker 4: a lock. But Freger is the big one. Keep him
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Speaker 4: and then yeah, build from there.
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Speaker 3: I say it, go ahead. I'm good with the siege.
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Speaker 3: I don't need the guy recording everything. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I got the I get the egg. I'm winning a
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Speaker 3: little bit like, I don't know, weird influencing thing.
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Speaker 2: I think the one thing that you have to keep
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Speaker 2: in mind with all of this portal stuff and an
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Speaker 2: I yell and money, like, it's still a big world
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Speaker 2: of unknown and so you want to lock people in
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Speaker 2: on staying because they like it here, or lock people
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Speaker 2: or tell say people they're leaving because of whatever reason,
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Speaker 2: right I I don't I'm not going to ever try
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Speaker 2: to predict that because there's so much going on, so
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Speaker 2: much unknown, and everybody has different values on what they
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Speaker 2: believe is important to them. I've seen you know, Fregger
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Speaker 2: on social media. People are saying, no, he's probably staying
18:49
Speaker 2: now based on some of the comments and the way
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Speaker 2: he's wording certain things.
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Speaker 5: You know, Price.
18:54
Speaker 2: Price obviously has the NBA draft to consider and and
18:58
Speaker 2: where that puts him there.
19:01
Speaker 5: I even heard someone today talk about what if North.
19:04
Speaker 2: Carolina comes in and gives them a bag that's twice
19:07
Speaker 2: a size of ours, right, Like, does.
19:10
Speaker 5: Does that matter? Maybe maybe not. I don't know.
19:14
Speaker 2: You're right that it sounds like we're going to the
19:16
Speaker 2: number that I've heard, you know, doubling our basketball funds capacity,
19:21
Speaker 2: whatever that means from four to eight million. I think
19:24
Speaker 2: that that money comes from two places. That the rev
19:29
Speaker 2: shared money, which isn't a big piece of that.
19:33
Speaker 5: That's part of it.
19:33
Speaker 2: But of the twenty million revenue that every athletic department receives,
19:37
Speaker 2: they can allocate that out to their different programs and
19:41
Speaker 2: and you know basketball is the second most after football,
19:43
Speaker 2: but you know, there's a fine line of how that
19:47
Speaker 2: all goes. I don't think you can just obviously take
19:49
Speaker 2: eighteen million of it and say here you go basketball,
19:51
Speaker 2: like that's not going to happen.
19:53
Speaker 5: So that's part of it.
19:55
Speaker 3: And then also just don't know how well that translates success.
19:58
Speaker 5: You don't know, you know, you don't at all.
20:00
Speaker 2: And then the nil piece is the other side of
20:01
Speaker 2: things and all the deals that are coming through. And
20:04
Speaker 2: there's right now a lot of stuff going on on
20:07
Speaker 2: the back behind the scenes with the.
20:11
Speaker 5: College Sports Commission, the CSC and the eighteen players Nebraska
20:15
Speaker 5: that are saying they didn't get paid whatever.
20:17
Speaker 2: So there's stuff there that has dynamics and everything as well.
20:23
Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on when it comes to
20:25
Speaker 2: who's coming back and who's leaving. The transfer portal for
20:29
Speaker 2: basketball does open on April seventh and is open for
20:31
Speaker 2: two weeks, so that's going to be here in a
20:33
Speaker 2: week and we're going to have a really good idea
20:36
Speaker 2: on the type of players that we're going to beginning
20:38
Speaker 2: to come in. I would hope that to the what
20:44
Speaker 2: Austin said about the things clicking and the course thing together,
20:47
Speaker 2: that that's going to have a bigger influence on a
20:50
Speaker 2: lot of these players than people realize because of the
20:53
Speaker 2: success that we had in wanting to return and sustain
20:57
Speaker 2: in or take it to the next step.
20:58
Speaker 5: You hope that that's the case.
21:00
Speaker 2: That's obviously every Huskers fans hope if North Carolina comes
21:04
Speaker 2: in and offers price Stanford three times the amount of
21:06
Speaker 2: money to go play at North Carolina.
21:09
Speaker 5: I don't know that we're gonna have a big answer
21:10
Speaker 5: for that.
21:13
Speaker 2: So I think that that's all things to consider when
21:17
Speaker 2: thinking about this. It makes it fun, though, that we're
21:19
Speaker 2: in that conversation and you're right, if you're a player
21:23
Speaker 2: and you're trying to decide between well, let's just throw
21:26
Speaker 2: out a random ACC school, Clemson or a Nebraska. And
21:31
Speaker 2: you just watched what Nebraska did in the NCAA term.
21:33
Speaker 2: Members is what Clemson did, right, And you're deciding between
21:36
Speaker 2: the two schools and they're both gonna pay the same
21:37
Speaker 2: amount of money. Yeah, the fan base and the support
21:40
Speaker 2: that you saw and okay, see Houston all that, you
21:44
Speaker 2: think that has to make a difference.
21:46
Speaker 5: From a from a from a player standpoint too.
21:48
Speaker 3: So I just I just I don't.
21:53
Speaker 6: I don't know, like the Prince been doing this for
21:55
Speaker 6: seven years and this is really the you know, only
21:59
Speaker 6: a second years success. He's hard, right, He's had a
22:04
Speaker 6: lot of duds, you know, like we got we had
22:06
Speaker 6: the five star recruits and that did not work out.
22:08
Speaker 6: You know, we had the offensive transfers that didn't work out.
22:12
Speaker 6: We just happened to land On Price, who Fred's been
22:17
Speaker 6: kind of working with since he was like a ten
22:19
Speaker 6: year old because you know, he's from Iowa and he
22:20
Speaker 6: was at Iowa State and did all these coaching camps
22:23
Speaker 6: and offered him at Iowa State.
22:26
Speaker 3: Sam who's his son. You know, It's just like I
22:28
Speaker 3: don't know.
22:29
Speaker 5: Did things just come together? And it's not.
22:32
Speaker 2: We're not sitting here and saying Fred Hoiberg's a bad coach,
22:34
Speaker 2: but we were all to the point. I mean I
22:37
Speaker 2: was to the point definitely that right and move on,
22:40
Speaker 2: like try something different. Things were not working. It was
22:42
Speaker 2: very stale. I do think I don't think this is
22:46
Speaker 2: a case where you should go out and say to everybody, Yeah,
22:50
Speaker 2: this is why you got to give somebody.
22:52
Speaker 5: Seven years to turn a program around. It takes time.
22:54
Speaker 2: It's not the case at all, right, like that, that's
22:58
Speaker 2: this is an anomaly. I think of what happened in
23:00
Speaker 2: a coacher's life cycle where there wasn't much pressure on
23:03
Speaker 2: him in the first few years because of the program
23:05
Speaker 2: and who we were. I just it, it just there's
23:09
Speaker 2: not there wasn't you could fail like we did and
23:12
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, all right, well I guess we're seeing progress.
23:15
Speaker 5: I don't know, and.
23:17
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean props here for the program staying
23:19
Speaker 2: on and sticking with them, because it ended up paying
23:22
Speaker 2: off now eventually. I do think a lot of that too,
23:25
Speaker 2: had to deal with the people that Fred surrounded himself
23:27
Speaker 2: with with his staff, and then obviously, like you said,
23:30
Speaker 2: Austin some of the players that he was able to
23:32
Speaker 2: get in and the connection he made with them, which
23:34
Speaker 2: is all part of learning as well. So I again
23:37
Speaker 2: props props to Fred. It's Fred a top ten coach
23:41
Speaker 2: in the country. No like I saw. I saw the
23:45
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen coaches ranking. Someone went through and ranked all
23:49
Speaker 2: the coaches and Fred was like, I think thirteen to sixteen, right,
23:52
Speaker 2: Like I.
23:54
Speaker 5: Think it's probably about right.
23:55
Speaker 2: I was looking at the guys ahead of him, I'm like, yep, yep, yep,
23:59
Speaker 2: like it'll they're all better coaches in my mind. But
24:03
Speaker 2: you know, what Fred did this year was pretty amazing
24:06
Speaker 2: given the pieces that we have.
24:08
Speaker 4: Here's one good thing to come away from that game
24:10
Speaker 4: for people staying is that sting from losing that game
24:14
Speaker 4: will want We'll make fragrant Sanford want to come back,
24:16
Speaker 4: I think, and come back and let's go kick I
24:20
Speaker 4: was ass or whatever. And there's there's one more thing
24:23
Speaker 4: about Fred Hoiberg. He's un like the football team. He's
24:28
Speaker 4: not full of shit like a football coach is. He
24:30
Speaker 4: will tell you how it is. He's not just gonna
24:32
Speaker 4: be like, oh, it's raised roses in however we say it.
24:35
Speaker 4: Days day's over here. Whatever, he tells it how it is,
24:39
Speaker 4: and I think players see that Matt rule is so
24:41
Speaker 4: full of shit. But we'll get damn later. But I
24:44
Speaker 4: think Hoiberg will tell it how it is and players
24:46
Speaker 4: respect him for that.
24:49
Speaker 3: I mean, this quigger gonna get Hoiberg gonna get a
24:51
Speaker 3: statue a p BA.
24:55
Speaker 4: Maybe.
24:56
Speaker 5: I think he definitely could.
24:57
Speaker 2: I mean, I think if we fall off and there's
25:00
Speaker 2: come in the next couple of years, it.
25:02
Speaker 5: Might change things. But I mean it is as.
25:04
Speaker 2: Far as what we were able to do in the
25:06
Speaker 2: in the storyline that went along with the tournament drought,
25:09
Speaker 2: even just getting that first win was pretty incredible. We'll
25:12
Speaker 2: see I've heard that too.
25:14
Speaker 5: Is kind of funny.
25:15
Speaker 3: But with just we just extended in what five years?
25:19
Speaker 3: Four years?
25:20
Speaker 6: So you really hope you hope this wasn't just the
25:24
Speaker 6: you know, the not again not just compare to the
25:27
Speaker 6: football program, but the Matt rules starting in five and
25:30
Speaker 6: one and then getting a big extension.
25:33
Speaker 3: Because Penn State job opened up.
25:35
Speaker 1: Right.
25:38
Speaker 2: Uh, last thing we'll do on basketball, Your favorite moment
25:41
Speaker 2: for the for the year.
25:42
Speaker 5: Austin a Lego first going.
25:44
Speaker 6: To be a first game in Oklahoma City. The first
25:47
Speaker 6: tournament went for sure. I mean, that's like an old
25:52
Speaker 6: time that's like probably my Favoritehuscer fan.
25:55
Speaker 4: Moment, one of the best moments of my life, not
26:00
Speaker 4: even just the Husker fan mones of the year, was
26:02
Speaker 4: the Vanderbilt end of the Vanderbilt game when Freker hit
26:06
Speaker 4: that layup and then mixed in with the guy missing
26:08
Speaker 4: the shot by like in half a centimeter, mixed into
26:11
Speaker 4: all that and then the celebration after easily. I told
26:14
Speaker 4: Hunter this, and I believe it. I don't think I'll
26:15
Speaker 4: go to anything more fun in my life than that game.
26:20
Speaker 4: You hope we do.
26:20
Speaker 2: Hopefully we get to the final four in the Natty
26:22
Speaker 2: title and something. Yeah, obviously, I think those are the
26:27
Speaker 2: two answers common answers. I mean, I think just other
26:31
Speaker 2: want to throw out there, just to relive them again
26:33
Speaker 2: in your mind. That Oklahoma Sue Falls game.
26:39
Speaker 5: Dak and I both went to that one.
26:40
Speaker 2: That one was was pretty pretty incredible what we were
26:43
Speaker 2: able to do, and that was kind of the first
26:45
Speaker 2: sign of Okay, well, I think we might have something
26:49
Speaker 2: here that's.
26:50
Speaker 4: Pretty goods went there, Hunter real quick after that game. Mean,
26:54
Speaker 4: you said we will not go to more fun basketball
26:55
Speaker 4: game this season than that, and were we wrong, We
26:58
Speaker 4: were wrong.
27:01
Speaker 6: Also throw out the Iowa overtime where Cal Jacobson and
27:05
Speaker 6: San foi Burg just took over and scored ninth straight.
27:09
Speaker 7: As far as that one was big, I think that
27:12
Speaker 7: the Illinois road game with the JaMarcus Warne shot and
27:15
Speaker 7: the Kings Belka near heart attack, Uh, that that was
27:20
Speaker 7: pretty awesome.
27:20
Speaker 2: The Michigan State as we just cracked the top twenty
27:23
Speaker 2: five and play a top ten team.
27:25
Speaker 5: At home, you store in the court afterwards.
27:30
Speaker 2: I think that was a that was a huge game
27:31
Speaker 2: there on that Saturday.
27:35
Speaker 5: Just there are countless moments here that you forget.
27:38
Speaker 4: Whoa whoa whoa beating b y U an exhibition.
27:41
Speaker 3: There you go?
27:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that, Yeah, I mean that's.
27:44
Speaker 3: Why you d up not being as good of it.
27:46
Speaker 5: That probably cracks maybe the top ten, but like.
27:48
Speaker 3: I I triple doubles higher than that.
27:52
Speaker 2: It's an exhibition game. That was what it was. So again,
27:57
Speaker 2: lots of moments enjoy the year. Uh, there'll be one
28:01
Speaker 2: that will probably never forget.
28:03
Speaker 4: So that being said, I'm gonna be straight up to
28:08
Speaker 4: you about cried when they lost Iowa, about did well
28:12
Speaker 4: you do?
28:12
Speaker 5: Cried a lot of things.
28:13
Speaker 4: So I almost I mean there was a lot of.
28:16
Speaker 5: There is I get you here, there were there were
28:19
Speaker 5: a lot of people that had the same reaction. So
28:21
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, I mean there was.
28:23
Speaker 6: A time, there was the last time you're gonna see
28:26
Speaker 6: Sam Hoiberg and you know, yeah, I get it.
28:31
Speaker 3: Did you always watch the locker room talk with bred after?
28:35
Speaker 5: Very good? Yeap, very good?
28:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can all agree. We can all agree though.
28:43
Speaker 4: Thank god Thursday games over for a while. I don't
28:45
Speaker 4: need know the Thursday like that true for my body.
28:51
Speaker 2: I've had several in a row two so that was
28:53
Speaker 2: it been been.
28:56
Speaker 5: It'll be good to have a full week back here.
28:58
Speaker 4: I guess. Yeah. It feels like a blur in the
29:01
Speaker 4: last two weeks. It really does.
29:05
Speaker 5: Before we get to football. And we'll finish up with football.
29:08
Speaker 2: I do want to shout out here mentioned the Husker
29:11
Speaker 2: baseball and softball teams and the success are having. I
29:15
Speaker 2: went to one game against Michigan State for the baseball team.
29:18
Speaker 2: I've watched a couple of softball games. I watched the
29:21
Speaker 2: other night the UCLA game on Friday night where we
29:24
Speaker 2: one by one. You know, UCLA was a top ten team.
29:31
Speaker 2: We are now up in the softball rankings to number
29:34
Speaker 2: four in the country, just behind Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma.
29:39
Speaker 2: So softball team's doing a lot of really good things
29:42
Speaker 2: right now.
29:43
Speaker 5: I mean, the highest that they've been in.
29:46
Speaker 4: A long time.
29:46
Speaker 5: I mean, have we ever been this highly ranked in softball?
29:51
Speaker 5: I have never argued that, I would guess not.
29:54
Speaker 2: And baseball teams in the top twenty five as well,
29:57
Speaker 2: sit at the number nineteen they are playing and as
30:00
Speaker 2: we speak right.
30:02
Speaker 3: Now, bottom of it was six and they're and Nebraska
30:05
Speaker 3: is up to six to zero.
30:06
Speaker 2: So Creighton's not having the best of years, but Nebraska's
30:12
Speaker 2: work do some good things on the field in both
30:15
Speaker 2: baseball and softball, and I think, you know, when it
30:18
Speaker 2: comes to postseason, and unlike basketball and football, baseball and softball,
30:23
Speaker 2: those seasons fly by like crazy.
30:25
Speaker 6: I just looked at the softball record and I could
30:28
Speaker 6: not believe that they're they're they're twenty six and six already, Like.
30:32
Speaker 2: It's like wow, because he play so many games, and
30:35
Speaker 2: your first twenty or your first fifteen, you don't play
30:38
Speaker 2: at home because it's too cold, so you're playing on
30:40
Speaker 2: the road, and they're I mean, they're already into Big
30:43
Speaker 2: Ten play here.
30:44
Speaker 5: Both both teams. Both teams goals here.
30:47
Speaker 2: You know, obviously is going to be hosting a regional UH,
30:51
Speaker 2: which goes to the top sixteen seeds in the country.
30:56
Speaker 5: You know, softball is obviously well inside that mark.
30:58
Speaker 2: Baseball's climbing to get there UH and winning your conference tournament,
31:02
Speaker 2: which we've done the past two years for baseball UH
31:06
Speaker 2: really does help that and I think we're in a
31:08
Speaker 2: good position right now to do so.
31:10
Speaker 5: Just got to keep building. I think the pitching is
31:12
Speaker 5: from what I've.
31:13
Speaker 2: Been reading and hearing, has been the big improvement from
31:16
Speaker 2: last year to this year. And figuring out a good
31:18
Speaker 2: rotation the bullpen has been a lot better. We, like
31:24
Speaker 2: I said, our goal is to get probably a host
31:27
Speaker 2: the regional. If you can do that, you know, you
31:29
Speaker 2: like your chances with the Husker crowd at Haymarket Park
31:32
Speaker 2: and at a bowling stadium, and then you see where
31:35
Speaker 2: it goes from there.
31:35
Speaker 5: You know, Huskers have not made the Callege Room Series.
31:38
Speaker 2: And in quite some time I heard I heard some
31:43
Speaker 2: people talk about the Oklahoma City game and comparing it
31:46
Speaker 2: to Husker moments, and you know, the people that were
31:49
Speaker 2: alive in the nineties a couple of those games and
31:53
Speaker 2: then the other one that I heard a lot was
31:55
Speaker 2: the Caullege Room Series appearance that the Huskers made in
31:59
Speaker 2: the early two thousand. So I think that that's one
32:02
Speaker 2: of those things that the sport that I think most
32:06
Speaker 2: people would say baseball is not the most fun sport
32:08
Speaker 2: to watch, but it's one of those things that you
32:10
Speaker 2: can really fill a stadium and have some fun. It's
32:14
Speaker 2: more laid back. I'm thinking back to the Big Ten
32:17
Speaker 2: championship in Omaha, how many years ago? That was just
32:22
Speaker 2: two years ago that we filled that stadium. Yeah, I
32:25
Speaker 2: think last year maybe it was colder or something. It
32:27
Speaker 2: wasn't I can't.
32:27
Speaker 3: Remember what it was really cold.
32:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's one that two years ago.
32:31
Speaker 2: I remember going up there and the championship game was there,
32:34
Speaker 2: and that stadium I remember going to it for sixty
32:37
Speaker 2: bucks a ticket and got in.
32:38
Speaker 5: It was just packed.
32:41
Speaker 2: So again, it is exciting stuff going on there for
32:45
Speaker 2: those two programs. Something to continue to follow along here
32:48
Speaker 2: over the next couple of months.
32:49
Speaker 4: I think we can officially say we're not a football school.
32:53
Speaker 3: I sometimes I say it was a got volleyball, baseball, softball, basketball, men's.
32:58
Speaker 4: Women's bowling is really good, but it's bowling.
33:01
Speaker 6: They've historically always been really good. So the only program
33:04
Speaker 6: that is not not doing any sort of national performance.
33:09
Speaker 3: Here is uh, the one that has the most money.
33:15
Speaker 5: Let's go there.
33:16
Speaker 2: Then let's let's finish off this pod here talking about football.
33:21
Speaker 5: Here's my opening comment on the football program right now.
33:25
Speaker 2: And we haven't talked about them at all really for
33:28
Speaker 2: the last several weeks or months since that Las Vegas
33:34
Speaker 2: gol lost to Utah. I think, and whether people want
33:40
Speaker 2: to admit it or not, apathy is setting in for
33:45
Speaker 2: a lot of people at various stages. Apathy is not
33:49
Speaker 2: something that all of a sudden you just care a
33:51
Speaker 2: bunch of them you stop caring, and that's not that's
33:53
Speaker 2: not that's not what happens. But everyone's at a different
33:59
Speaker 2: stage in the care or their interest level of luscer football.
34:03
Speaker 2: And when you say apathy is not if you are
34:06
Speaker 2: still talking about it and you're still upset about it
34:09
Speaker 2: and you're still emotionally invested about it, you don't have apathy.
34:12
Speaker 2: Apathy is truly the lack of caring about something and
34:17
Speaker 2: you're just doesn't provide you with any emotion one way
34:21
Speaker 2: or the other. I think that's setting in and is
34:24
Speaker 2: impacting a lot more people this year than.
34:30
Speaker 5: Previous years. And yes, the spring game, you see the
34:33
Speaker 5: numbers and the lowest spring game.
34:35
Speaker 2: Tools in two thousand. I'm really i am, But I'm
34:38
Speaker 2: not talking about that whole thing. I'm just talking about
34:40
Speaker 2: the general interest right now of the success of the
34:44
Speaker 2: football program and the conversation around it. Basketball has had
34:51
Speaker 2: a very big impact on that. Many media writers, sports
34:55
Speaker 2: writers where all they would talk about in February and
34:58
Speaker 2: March are basketball kind of over.
35:00
Speaker 5: Well, let's move on to spring football.
35:02
Speaker 2: On top of that, Spring football started the earliest it's
35:05
Speaker 2: ever started.
35:05
Speaker 5: We're already done with it and it's not even April.
35:09
Speaker 2: I just think that there's just this goes to speak
35:12
Speaker 2: to how many of us watch the spring game, let
35:15
Speaker 2: alone go to it like.
35:19
Speaker 5: Part of that. Yeah, two days after.
35:21
Speaker 2: The the IOWA lost the Sweet sixteen. That probably has
35:25
Speaker 2: a lot to do with it. Just people are kind
35:27
Speaker 2: of tiring more now. But at the same time, it's
35:29
Speaker 2: just like like, Okay, I don't care. Yeah, it's it's apathy.
35:35
Speaker 2: It's it's not complete apathy. It's not like I'm I've
35:40
Speaker 2: completely disabandoned Husker football, but like I almost forgot to
35:44
Speaker 2: review my season tickets. I got a text reminder on
35:47
Speaker 2: the last day that says your season ticket renewal, Today's.
35:50
Speaker 5: Your last day.
35:51
Speaker 2: If you don't do it now, your tickets will be released.
35:53
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh crap, Like I just completely forgot about it.
35:56
Speaker 2: And yes I renewed my season tickets. But it was
36:00
Speaker 2: one of those things that it wasn't like I was
36:01
Speaker 2: on top of it. I have been in previous years.
36:03
Speaker 2: I just it's a level of apathy that I just
36:06
Speaker 2: is setting in a little bit.
36:11
Speaker 6: I mean, I didn't even remember. I didn't even know this.
36:13
Speaker 6: I like not even like, oh, I didn't know the
36:15
Speaker 6: spring games going on this weekend. I did not know
36:17
Speaker 6: the spring game was happening last week Tuesday, Like like, oh,
36:20
Speaker 6: you go to the spring game?
36:21
Speaker 3: Like what are you talking about? Man? Basketball plays on Thursday?
36:26
Speaker 3: Like I I And.
36:30
Speaker 5: Yes there were.
36:31
Speaker 2: But we can't do this because it didn't happen this way.
36:34
Speaker 2: But let's try to take basketball out of it and
36:39
Speaker 2: picture your your interest level of the conversation, right it
36:42
Speaker 2: was when when nobody's talking about it and there's something
36:45
Speaker 2: else going on that becomes as important because of the
36:49
Speaker 2: excitement around it. Naturally, Yeah, you're gonna put something like
36:51
Speaker 2: it to the back seat. Like that's even if we
36:54
Speaker 2: were coming off a top twenty five season, football in
36:56
Speaker 2: the spring would have gotten put on the back seat
36:58
Speaker 2: because of what basketball did to a certain extent. But
37:04
Speaker 2: now it's like, again, you talk about our The only
37:08
Speaker 2: reason why I know anything about our spring is because
37:10
Speaker 2: I've listened to a couple of podcasts that are now
37:12
Speaker 2: catching up on football because they haven't been talking about it,
37:15
Speaker 2: and so now I'm familiarizing myself with where everything's at,
37:21
Speaker 2: which is not making me happy because it's just a
37:24
Speaker 2: bunch of bullshit come back.
37:26
Speaker 5: So that's just all fun. But anyway, I just I
37:30
Speaker 5: think that that's a thing to not like, Dak.
37:32
Speaker 2: I obviously basketball is going on, but like you always
37:36
Speaker 2: wanted to love to go to the spring game, and
37:38
Speaker 2: you even get asked to go to the spring game
37:39
Speaker 2: and you're like, Nope, not a chance.
37:42
Speaker 4: Seeh I like the spring festivities. It's usually a lot
37:44
Speaker 4: of fun going out around the town on the spring game.
37:46
Speaker 4: It's like it feels like an almost Saturday spring game
37:49
Speaker 4: or not spring game. No almost Saturday fall football game
37:53
Speaker 4: usually for a spring game. But I saw videos and
37:55
Speaker 4: stuff downtown. There was nobody down there, nobody like celebrating.
37:59
Speaker 4: I forgot even on Saturday. Someone's like, you watch the
38:02
Speaker 4: spring games like now, and I'm like, no one's the
38:04
Speaker 4: start for Good started eleven But but yeah, it's like
38:08
Speaker 4: and truly, I did not care at all to even
38:11
Speaker 4: think think about that or football. And that has a
38:13
Speaker 4: lot to do with basketball, and I I have thought
38:20
Speaker 4: about that. What if basketball wasn't doing this with what
38:22
Speaker 4: people been in on the spring game or's been on
38:25
Speaker 4: a football team right now, I don't. I think the
38:28
Speaker 4: hype would have been a lot more. But like you said,
38:29
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of people just kind of
38:32
Speaker 4: out of football in general right now. It's kind of
38:34
Speaker 4: it's another it's a proven right now.
38:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't.
38:45
Speaker 2: It's spring game thoughts, like what what?
38:48
Speaker 5: What are some of your guys watch it?
38:50
Speaker 2: But what are some of your takeaways or thoughts if
38:53
Speaker 2: you even have any from the spring game?
38:58
Speaker 3: Uh?
39:02
Speaker 2: God, I really got a fulls of strings here for Okay,
39:05
Speaker 2: Dak Calandria, what are your thoughts on Anthony Calandria.
39:11
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be electric, He's gonna he's gonna
39:15
Speaker 4: throw a lot of picks this season. He is, but
39:17
Speaker 4: he's gonna throw a lot of because he he doesn't
39:19
Speaker 4: give a crap where he throws that ball. It's gonna
39:21
Speaker 4: be exciting and it's gonna be like what are you
39:23
Speaker 4: doing for a lot of the season. And I think
39:25
Speaker 4: I do think he's gonna be a good quarterback.
39:29
Speaker 2: Now.
39:29
Speaker 4: What I do like, which is it's gonna come expect me,
39:32
Speaker 4: is the old line looks big this year. And we've
39:35
Speaker 4: we've heard I heard a little bit going in the
39:37
Speaker 4: spring game like, oh, they're big and they they're physical.
39:39
Speaker 4: They do look bigger than normal. Now, not trying to
39:44
Speaker 4: get any hype going, but that's one takeaway. Have I
39:46
Speaker 4: thought was the old line looks bigger. You can't think
39:49
Speaker 4: of any from the spring game, but I thought they
39:52
Speaker 4: looked bigger this year. Now we'll see.
40:00
Speaker 6: And yeah, Palandrea, I was twelve or nineteen for however
40:03
Speaker 6: many yards with one interception and two touchdowns. Again, it's
40:08
Speaker 6: we've I mean, we've talked about every spring game. It's like, well,
40:11
Speaker 6: is that because our defense is good or is our
40:13
Speaker 6: offense bad? Or you know, is this there could be
40:17
Speaker 6: a middle grad or we're not good at either And
40:19
Speaker 6: we're playing ourselves, so it's mediocre offense, it's mediocre defense.
40:24
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel I feel like the.
40:25
Speaker 6: Big takeaway was just the running backs and who was
40:28
Speaker 6: getting the carries and who you saw. I mean, I
40:30
Speaker 6: hadn't even heard of Jamal Rule until the spring game,
40:34
Speaker 6: and now he sounds like.
40:35
Speaker 4: He's actually is he related to Matt Rule?
40:38
Speaker 3: No? No, age, Okay.
40:42
Speaker 2: Did I have you convinced that he was his cousin
40:44
Speaker 2: or his nephew because I.
40:46
Speaker 4: Told you that I truly did not know.
40:52
Speaker 3: And also, you know, they weren't tackling the quarterbacks, and
40:54
Speaker 3: you know Calandria is supposed to be this mobile quarterback,
40:56
Speaker 3: but he had like fifteen yards twelve We're on one row.
41:00
Speaker 3: So I don't know, I will say, I just I
41:04
Speaker 3: looked up a list of spring game attendance and this
41:07
Speaker 3: articles from twenty twenty three. So, but the lowest one.
41:13
Speaker 6: Excluding ones that were limited due to COVID, was fifty
41:18
Speaker 6: some thousand, fifty four thousand, fifty five thousand. We had
41:25
Speaker 6: twenty thousand on Saturday.
41:26
Speaker 2: So and then what's funny about that whole big Calandria
41:30
Speaker 2: mentioned how crazy I'm many Jesus for a spring game
41:33
Speaker 2: like he thought, he thought it was awesome how many
41:35
Speaker 2: people were there. So that's that's the that's the what
41:39
Speaker 2: he as, what he's used to, right, Like the types
41:42
Speaker 2: of games, he's one of those guys that you know,
41:47
Speaker 2: the called the pressure or the big ten, Like he's
41:51
Speaker 2: gonna do what he's gonna do just because of from
41:53
Speaker 2: what we know.
41:54
Speaker 5: He's just said, he's a risk taker and he's high risk.
41:56
Speaker 2: High reward and he's I heard someone call him a
41:59
Speaker 2: gun slinger.
42:00
Speaker 5: Like there's frozen cons to that.
42:03
Speaker 1: Right.
42:06
Speaker 2: We had the extreme version of that with Jeff Simms,
42:08
Speaker 2: and there wasn't many pros We'll put it that way
42:13
Speaker 2: with how.
42:13
Speaker 5: He turned out.
42:14
Speaker 2: Now, obviously, I you know, you hope and you think
42:16
Speaker 2: that Clandry is going to turn out a lot better
42:18
Speaker 2: than Jeff Simms did it Nebraska.
42:22
Speaker 5: But I do think that's that's what you're gonna get
42:24
Speaker 5: with him.
42:25
Speaker 2: Uh. The big takeaway for me for the little bit
42:30
Speaker 2: that I watched, you know, I watched moments of it
42:33
Speaker 2: and it caught my eye enough for me to be like,
42:36
Speaker 2: what the heck are we doing? And then I've heard
42:39
Speaker 2: people talk about it is the tempo that we showed
42:42
Speaker 2: and some of the no huddle, hurry up style offense
42:46
Speaker 2: that we ran in that first half, especially with a
42:49
Speaker 2: couple of our with Clandria and Latif, I that that
42:56
Speaker 2: always scares me.
43:00
Speaker 3: There's a lot of times to score.
43:01
Speaker 2: I just I that's not the style of football that
43:04
Speaker 2: I think that we need to be playing.
43:06
Speaker 5: I I don't I don't want to say it, but
43:10
Speaker 5: I'll go back to our good old friends of the East.
43:12
Speaker 2: Like, I love the way Iowa plays football and it's
43:15
Speaker 2: not pretty, but guess what it gets some winning games
43:18
Speaker 2: every year, eight or nine wins and once you get
43:20
Speaker 2: to that point, and I think you can take that
43:22
Speaker 2: as a base and build off of it. Even though
43:24
Speaker 2: Iowa's never done that. They they've stayed there forever. But
43:29
Speaker 2: I do think that wins you a lot of games.
43:31
Speaker 2: How the basketball team was built this year and got
43:34
Speaker 2: them to where they did, just that that's the Midwestern, ugly,
43:39
Speaker 2: you know, farm tough way of winning games. And I
43:42
Speaker 2: don't think running it a no huddle, hurry up offense
43:45
Speaker 2: fits that.
43:46
Speaker 5: DNA.
43:46
Speaker 2: Now, I'm not saying that's not it can't work. It
43:49
Speaker 2: obviously has had success in years. We've also had the
43:53
Speaker 2: conversation though, why it's kind of gone away, like you
43:56
Speaker 2: you know, it had it, it was a trend, it
43:58
Speaker 2: was a fad there for a while or everybody was
44:00
Speaker 2: doing it. And the last couple of years, how many
44:03
Speaker 2: teams are running the true no huddle offense.
44:07
Speaker 3: Not one.
44:10
Speaker 2: No, it's not something that I expect that we're gonna
44:12
Speaker 2: run it at our base, but it is good to
44:14
Speaker 2: have it in and and and and and work. Maybe
44:17
Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe the thought process is being optimistic,
44:19
Speaker 2: is work at it now in the spring, so that
44:22
Speaker 2: you know when you need it in a in a
44:24
Speaker 2: three minute situation, when you're down, when you're down a touchdown,
44:28
Speaker 2: you know you you you got to go to it
44:30
Speaker 2: and you practice it a lot. And and that's what
44:32
Speaker 2: we're doing now in the spring. Maybe that's the thought
44:34
Speaker 2: concept there. And and I think that's a good one
44:37
Speaker 2: to have. But I caught my eye. I did like
44:43
Speaker 2: the format of it where I just you couldn't you
44:44
Speaker 2: couldn't tell, you know, you're playing your ones, your two's,
44:48
Speaker 2: your your four strings, like who's you know, who's Nebraska,
44:51
Speaker 2: Who's Huskers? I mean, I don't know who, don't really care.
44:55
Speaker 2: It's hard to judge the offense defense one way or
44:58
Speaker 2: the other. Based off of that, you just start to
45:01
Speaker 2: maybe see and hear names the people that you're gonna
45:05
Speaker 2: expect to hear in the fall.
45:07
Speaker 6: I mean, if you look at their that was probably
45:10
Speaker 6: the most interesting, I should say most interesting thing.
45:12
Speaker 3: But aside from the.
45:14
Speaker 6: Running back room, you know, you kind of got an
45:17
Speaker 6: idea of who right now they expect, who would who
45:19
Speaker 6: would be their starters right now? And you know, we
45:23
Speaker 6: had the three offensive lineman transfers, like the offensive line
45:26
Speaker 6: that that was our starting offensive line that we see.
45:30
Speaker 2: And and you don't think that that probably will change,
45:32
Speaker 2: right There's other guys that could give him a push,
45:34
Speaker 2: but you.
45:35
Speaker 5: Have a pretty good idea. If you're going to pay
45:36
Speaker 5: money and.
45:36
Speaker 2: Get these guys from the portal, you're probably gonna start them,
45:40
Speaker 2: especially guys that aren't freshman or sophing. You know, they're
45:42
Speaker 2: they're guys coming in with experience at some major schools.
45:46
Speaker 2: You know, Black from Iowa State, Baba Lade from South Carolina.
45:52
Speaker 5: Who's the other.
45:53
Speaker 3: One but Bengaa.
45:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I think there's you know guys that those
46:03
Speaker 2: guys are expected to play. Pritchet's going to come back
46:05
Speaker 2: in and play. So yeah, I think take away what
46:09
Speaker 2: you want from the from the line play. I think
46:11
Speaker 2: that's something that you'll just continue to hammer home. Of
46:14
Speaker 2: the offensive line and then the defensive line, which we
46:16
Speaker 2: haven't talked about either, right, how important that is and
46:19
Speaker 2: not just the Big Ten, but just in football in
46:21
Speaker 2: general and getting guys to have success on those two
46:27
Speaker 2: areas first, because all the conversation is going to be
46:30
Speaker 2: around the skill players, the quarterback, the running backs, receivers
46:34
Speaker 2: that we got. Yet it's going to start in the
46:36
Speaker 2: trenches no matter what offense, no matter what defense you're running,
46:41
Speaker 2: and if you don't have those pieces, no matter what
46:43
Speaker 2: you're trying to do, you're going to be playing from
46:45
Speaker 2: behind because you're going to try to mask up what's
46:48
Speaker 2: the lack they're upfront. So you can be at least
46:51
Speaker 2: solid at minimum, if not above average or really good
46:55
Speaker 2: in the trenches. And then yeah you can you can
46:58
Speaker 2: start to do some different things in the back half.
47:01
Speaker 5: But that's where it's going to begin with.
47:03
Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't want to hype anybody up or
47:05
Speaker 2: hype it up, as you know, sounds like we're bigger.
47:07
Speaker 2: That bigger doesn't always mean better. On the on the
47:10
Speaker 2: line play that's that's true. It can, but it doesn't
47:14
Speaker 2: always mean that either.
47:17
Speaker 6: That Yeah, the defensive people, it was like all new names.
47:22
Speaker 6: It felt like there was hardly anyone that got significant
47:25
Speaker 6: snaps from last year outside of Cam went Haart.
47:27
Speaker 3: It felt like him, Rarey Bean Poppo. I guess.
47:29
Speaker 4: But and I'll take a what no one no one
47:33
Speaker 4: looks out of the game hyped about t J Latif
47:36
Speaker 4: one of this is the least when I tuned in,
47:38
Speaker 4: he's one of five and a half. That's horrific in
47:40
Speaker 4: a spring.
47:41
Speaker 6: Game, man, you really want ad on t J. This
47:45
Speaker 6: has been a one year What do you mean you
47:49
Speaker 6: the last spring game you're like that t J. Latief
47:52
Speaker 6: guy might be pushing over for his starting position. Then
47:55
Speaker 6: all are we gonna put t J Latif in? And
47:58
Speaker 6: then he starts to get as U c. L A
47:59
Speaker 6: goes one twelve, you're like twelve, man, this teacher, and
48:02
Speaker 6: then this man's not seen. I'm telling you right now,
48:06
Speaker 6: he's not starting a game where we don't have an
48:07
Speaker 6: injured starter in his career at Nebraska.
48:11
Speaker 3: Calling it right now?
48:13
Speaker 4: Wow, I mean, there's here's my feeling about the football
48:17
Speaker 4: team right now. Is I am so out on rule.
48:20
Speaker 4: I don't know where you guys see with him, Like
48:22
Speaker 4: you guys are out on Hoiberg like should keep I
48:24
Speaker 4: think I'm totally out on him. No matter he has
48:27
Speaker 4: to win eight or nine games next year, and it
48:29
Speaker 4: has to do a lot that he's so full of
48:31
Speaker 4: shit in his press conference and stuff saying that this
48:33
Speaker 4: team's oh, he just he's the best car says men
48:36
Speaker 4: you'll ever meet. He will say you on anything, this
48:39
Speaker 4: team's great, blah blah blah blah. You know what you
48:41
Speaker 4: want my rules, shut up and go play.
48:44
Speaker 2: I will say this too, and I think this is
48:48
Speaker 2: a very true thing. One of the things that I
48:50
Speaker 2: think has heard our football program is the attention and
48:53
Speaker 2: the focus and the pressure, the expectations, all that that
48:57
Speaker 2: gets thrown on you buy media, fan base both nationally
49:03
Speaker 2: and locally, and your expectation to go out and perform.
49:09
Speaker 3: It doesn't hurt Outabama.
49:11
Speaker 2: What's what's great about it this year? And I think
49:14
Speaker 2: this is a big part of when you're playing. When
49:16
Speaker 2: you can play the underdog card and the role in
49:20
Speaker 2: the locker room and and have that as your as
49:23
Speaker 2: your mantra, I do think you can get a lot
49:27
Speaker 2: out of your players, and that's I think a part
49:33
Speaker 2: of the basketball team success. You know, there's there's little
49:36
Speaker 2: to no expectations every year coming in with that team,
49:39
Speaker 2: and they can play that card. Nobody expects us to this,
49:43
Speaker 2: this and this, and you heard Fred say that several times. Right,
49:46
Speaker 2: if we can kind of flip that and the football
49:48
Speaker 2: team kind of start doing that. Now, the only way
49:51
Speaker 2: you can be an underdog is if people doubt you
49:53
Speaker 2: and don't believe that you can do that. That's the
49:55
Speaker 2: problem at Nebraska. No one usually doubts us because we
49:59
Speaker 2: all talk ourselves up and we think we're going to
50:01
Speaker 2: be really good, and so then there's hype, and then
50:03
Speaker 2: there's a tension with the basketball season team doing what
50:06
Speaker 2: they did. Like we said, there's no hype, there's very
50:10
Speaker 2: little talk. You are all doing everything under the radar.
50:14
Speaker 2: In fact, with the spring game being even earlier, which
50:16
Speaker 2: I think i've heard that maybe was part of the
50:18
Speaker 2: real strategy, is to try to get everything done early,
50:21
Speaker 2: to try to stay under the radar. Right like that,
50:24
Speaker 2: the optimism and hope is maybe he's kind of starting
50:27
Speaker 2: to figure that out. Just to shut shut the hell
50:29
Speaker 2: up and quit blabber in your mouth about this and
50:32
Speaker 2: this and this and just perform and win. Like maybe
50:36
Speaker 2: if we want to look at it with an optimistic side,
50:38
Speaker 2: that is what's happening in the football program right now,
50:41
Speaker 2: and I will say will lead to success and and
50:44
Speaker 2: that I hope that's what a lesson was learned here
50:48
Speaker 2: over the last couple of months.
50:50
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe not.
50:53
Speaker 2: But but but then that makes you say, well, why
50:54
Speaker 2: don't we why doesn't he do that all the time. Well,
50:57
Speaker 2: like you said, Dak, I think he's a used car
50:59
Speaker 2: sales and that's what he likes to and how he
51:01
Speaker 2: likes to be.
51:01
Speaker 5: But maybe he learned, Okay, we can't do that.
51:04
Speaker 2: That's not gonna work. Like it's it's now or never.
51:06
Speaker 2: We got to put our heads down and work our
51:08
Speaker 2: ass off. And I'm with you right like if if
51:12
Speaker 2: we if we can't turn the corner here soon, very soon,
51:14
Speaker 2: as in this year, it's gonna be hard to continue
51:19
Speaker 2: to really back the guy and support the vision that
51:21
Speaker 2: he has for the program. Before you want to try
51:24
Speaker 2: something else, try something new, Try a young a young
51:27
Speaker 2: pup that has some has some life to him.
51:31
Speaker 5: That that'd be my preference. I don't hope you'll ever
51:33
Speaker 5: do that.
51:33
Speaker 2: So I don't know, like not out on, not out
51:36
Speaker 2: on Matt, but it's it's times. Time's slim here with
51:43
Speaker 2: what you got to get done, and the schedule is
51:44
Speaker 2: not in your favor either. Next year, you got some
51:48
Speaker 2: things to prove that things are going in the right
51:51
Speaker 2: way for you.
51:53
Speaker 3: I personally hope we hire Mike McCarthy next year. I
51:57
Speaker 3: think that's the fresh face.
51:58
Speaker 2: That God, oh God, usually have seen dak in my
52:02
Speaker 2: face for both like there's no way.
52:04
Speaker 4: Serious, all right, I'm gonna go you real quick. I'll
52:07
Speaker 4: be back. I mean, there's I hate him because he's
52:11
Speaker 4: a packers, old packers, but anyway, yeah, I and I
52:17
Speaker 4: do hope it works out for rule, just because I
52:19
Speaker 4: don't think he's a douchebag or anything. I think I'm
52:23
Speaker 4: just tired of hearing him hype up the team every year,
52:25
Speaker 4: like we're in me this great stuff. And I think
52:26
Speaker 4: fans are finally now, okay, ask me in August. It's
52:31
Speaker 4: July August, fans are being all over it. But right
52:33
Speaker 4: now fans are actually not hyped up, like they're not
52:35
Speaker 4: believing it for once, there's no one's drinking the kool
52:39
Speaker 4: aid yet.
52:39
Speaker 5: Well, and we said that's a natural.
52:44
Speaker 2: Response of the basketball team being really good and then
52:48
Speaker 2: nobody knowing anything.
52:49
Speaker 5: About him yet.
52:49
Speaker 2: Like like I said, we said, this is our first
52:52
Speaker 2: time kind of hearing about everything and our first chance
52:54
Speaker 2: to even know what's who the players are. And in
52:57
Speaker 2: an era of the of the transfer portal and I
53:00
Speaker 2: where yeah, you're going to see new faces year in
53:02
Speaker 2: and year out until about something changes, Like there's gonna
53:07
Speaker 2: be a lot of new things, and you're going to
53:10
Speaker 2: be able to if you want to drink the kool
53:12
Speaker 2: aid on these new teams and faces because they're new,
53:17
Speaker 2: you don't know what to expect that you can be
53:19
Speaker 2: as excited as you want on.
53:21
Speaker 5: Every single one of them.
53:23
Speaker 2: Like you're going to be able to do that if
53:24
Speaker 2: you want to as a fan, and we're the best
53:27
Speaker 2: at it at Nebraska in the media of doing that.
53:31
Speaker 5: So like I said, you're right, Dick, I don't know
53:34
Speaker 5: what when it comes by.
53:35
Speaker 2: I think people also know the schedule that we're at,
53:37
Speaker 2: and I think people also are not forgetting how the
53:41
Speaker 2: season ended last year with some pretty bad losses in
53:46
Speaker 2: some pretty bad ways too, the way those losses happened.
53:49
Speaker 5: So I do think that that's all going to be.
53:53
Speaker 5: Time will tell.
53:54
Speaker 2: It's not like the football team's done now and isn't
53:56
Speaker 2: coming back till July. Right, They're still doing stuff from
53:59
Speaker 2: now till July. They they might have a little bit
54:01
Speaker 2: of break, but they're gonna be still the off season
54:05
Speaker 2: training and everything that they do, and I'm sure we'll
54:07
Speaker 2: hear stuff about that as we go.
54:10
Speaker 4: So no, yeah, it just sucks with basketballs over because
54:17
Speaker 4: now we got to listen to the freaking hype train
54:18
Speaker 4: the rest of the summer.
54:22
Speaker 5: If you want to. If you want to, you don't
54:25
Speaker 5: have to.
54:28
Speaker 4: It hasn't taken up yet, but give it a couple
54:29
Speaker 4: of months, it'll be all aboard the hype train.
54:33
Speaker 6: Do you guys remember Chasing three and how it ended
54:35
Speaker 6: halfway through a year.
54:36
Speaker 3: Because it's like, oh, we're not.
54:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, and funny, there's so many things awesome, I'm glad
54:44
Speaker 2: you brought that up like that, that are such an
54:47
Speaker 2: awesome thing and are such a like this is great,
54:50
Speaker 2: and then they stop and nobody talks about it because
54:54
Speaker 2: it's like nobody's like, oh shit, that was stupid, like
54:57
Speaker 2: that Matt Rule's podcast, right, Like there's so many that
55:01
Speaker 2: I forgot about.
55:02
Speaker 3: That is how's Rules still going on?
55:05
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you.
55:06
Speaker 5: People don't know.
55:07
Speaker 2: There's so many things that everybody gets so excited about
55:10
Speaker 2: and like this is the greatest thing ever and this
55:12
Speaker 2: is well, and then when something goes away, they like say, Okay,
55:16
Speaker 2: I'm embarrassed. I said that, I'm not even going to
55:18
Speaker 2: talk about it anymore. Or they just completely forget because
55:21
Speaker 2: all they do is consume what's out there, and when.
55:25
Speaker 5: They go away, they go away.
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Speaker 4: Stay away from the basketball team att Rule.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, their season finale, how's the Rule season finale happened
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Speaker 6: in December, so I don't know if that was a
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Speaker 6: series or just the season.
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Speaker 3: Three point nine rating though out of two or nine ratings.
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Speaker 3: People love.
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Speaker 5: People love coach Rule, Dak would you give it go
55:52
Speaker 5: Go give go?
55:53
Speaker 2: Give it?
55:53
Speaker 5: A rating?
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Speaker 4: Probably zero? And I haven't even listened to it yet. God,
55:59
Speaker 4: he's kid talk.
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Speaker 2: He can talk good good, definitely good speaker, and and
56:07
Speaker 2: I think if you do it the right way, that
56:09
Speaker 2: can help your program, but it also can hurt.
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Speaker 5: In various ways too.
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Speaker 4: So there's one more player I want to talk about
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Speaker 4: Spring Game JA Cory Barney looks electric.
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Speaker 5: He does he always has.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna be a big weapon this year. I
56:26
Speaker 4: do do think that.
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Speaker 2: If they actually use him, start start drinking the cool Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Here we go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I'll shut up. All right, good season, boys,
56:35
Speaker 4: see you later.
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Speaker 3: Listen.
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Speaker 6: You know what's gonna happen if we're talking now, But
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Speaker 6: by the time August rolls around, we're gonna be so
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Speaker 6: excited for college football. I know we're gonna be slurfing
56:47
Speaker 6: up the content where but we're gonna you know, it'll
56:49
Speaker 6: be a little through pestimistic lens, but we're gonna be
56:51
Speaker 6: watching it all be like, did you guys see that
56:53
Speaker 6: press conference?
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Speaker 3: But we watched it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, bring the whole conversation full circle into the apathy
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Speaker 2: and everything too.
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Speaker 5: There is.
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Speaker 2: There's gonna be interest when there's nothing going on in
57:08
Speaker 2: the month of July, Like there never is every year
57:11
Speaker 2: that you're just waiting for college trouble to start back
57:14
Speaker 2: up again. And I will say, obviously, Nebraska football is
57:18
Speaker 2: a big piece of that for all of us, considering
57:21
Speaker 2: we're doing a podcast on it, so like, yeah, we're
57:25
Speaker 2: gonna listen to that and be a lot more attentive
57:28
Speaker 2: to do. But I think everybody's frames and lenses are
57:30
Speaker 2: going to be a little bit different listening to it,
57:32
Speaker 2: and I think that Coach Rule is smart enough to
57:35
Speaker 2: understand that too.
57:37
Speaker 5: I'd listened to him in the spring game a little bit.
57:40
Speaker 2: I think his his selling is a little bit different.
57:45
Speaker 2: I got a different, little different tone from him.
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Speaker 5: Than like what we've heard in the past.
57:51
Speaker 2: So we'll just see what that what happens here, Like
57:54
Speaker 2: I said, over the next few months here as we
57:55
Speaker 2: take some time off, and we'll be back in the
58:01
Speaker 2: fall for season eight, where we're gonna be doing stuff
58:04
Speaker 2: a little things a little bit differently. Here on the podcast,
58:08
Speaker 2: we'll be doing a daily podcast versus doing our twice
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Speaker 2: a week episode.
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Speaker 5: Try to keep it short, keep it sweet, to a
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Speaker 5: specific topic or a point.
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Speaker 2: It may not it may be all three of us,
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Speaker 2: maybe one of us, two of us at the time,
58:23
Speaker 2: but we will be having a daily podcast out there
58:25
Speaker 2: for you to listen to on your drive to work.
58:28
Speaker 2: You're eight am at the office during your workout. I
58:33
Speaker 2: don't know where else people listen to podcasts.
58:37
Speaker 3: Right, where's the wust place you've listened to a podcast?
58:40
Speaker 3: That's the better question.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I do it now at the grocery store,
58:48
Speaker 2: Like yeah, put it, put a headphone in while you're
58:52
Speaker 2: getting groceries, like I've done.
58:53
Speaker 5: I do that now sometimes.
58:54
Speaker 2: And so there's so many out there, a lot of contentespecially.
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Speaker 5: Huff Hufter Sports, a lot of Huffer podcasts out there.
59:03
Speaker 4: So I can't wait for the hype train and we
59:05
Speaker 4: start five and zero in the Indiana comes to Lincoln
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Speaker 4: and we get our ass just smoked. And I'll be
59:13
Speaker 4: all aboard the hype hype tream too. I know it
59:15
Speaker 4: will be, but oh, I'm gonna try not to this year.
59:20
Speaker 2: We'll see, all right, I'll wrap up season seven, have
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Speaker 2: a good summer.
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Speaker 3: Go Big Red, g v.
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Speaker 4: R, Go Big Grid Freak
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