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Episode 5.40: Things Confirmed and Lessons Learned · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turn Lord Podcasts, Arbendiki and the Code of Freak Tak. Austin late again
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to the party, Man, unreal. He's gotta gotta get it stuff.
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You gotta get a ship together. He'll be here shortly though, Dak.
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It's the off season. Is there something you'd like to get off your chest?
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I just can't believe how many quarterbacks are into the portal today. A
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lot. That's the world we live in. There's there's one guy I sent
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earlier I think would be the perfect quarterback for you, guys. I think
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you want a different one though, Well, why don't you just spoil the
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news? That's that's part of my game later, so we won't get into
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that. Okaya got a new new game for us. We don't really know
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what's coming here later on, but I'm guessing it might have something to do
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with the quarterback care usel I have my favorite pick so far, but yeah,
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we'll save that for later. It's the off season officially. As we
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said last episode, we're not going bowling conference teams For some teams. Conference
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Championship Week is this weekend, and I will say this, we are on
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our way to winning another off season Natty title. We got to fource our
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offensive lineman commit today people are already talking about When I say people Will Compton
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already talking about and us going six to oh to start the year next year.
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I mean, you can't get any better than that. Nope, he's
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uh, you know, usually the hype train starts about February. I'd say,
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right for spring ball. Basically, it's right off the tracks already,
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it's going. Not in Nebraska, baby, we get started right away.
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We gotta climb those poles in the off season from the get go. So
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what we're gonna do today? For the majority of the episode, this is
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how I got myself through the Iowa game. And yeah, I had my
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thoughts on the Iowa game, but at the same time, my mind was
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already moving forwards to the off season. And there's Austin. Austin, are
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you there there? He is late to the part. Sorry, my WiFi
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was not connecting. So what we're gonna do today? This is how I
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got my head through the Iowa game. Kind of went through the season as
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a whole three things and ended up being more than three things. But that
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I learned from the year, things that were confirmed and are still true.
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We knew it coming in. Maybe we forgot but we were reminded of it,
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and then what do we still want to know heading into next year.
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So I, as I was going through those things in my list, I
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was trying to keep it to three, and then I just started typing away
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and got carried away. So here they are, and Dak and Austin are
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going to be here to comment on them and probably agree but maybe disagree on
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some of them. Let's start with things that were confirmed, things that we
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already knew our fans this year and media and us included. We're all over
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the place with our expectations, our beliefs, our thoughts, how many wins
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we were going to get? Just to me like as a as a big
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picture thing, like that's what happened this year. I think there were times
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that people were really high on us, to the point where we're even thinking
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Big Ten title game. There are times that we're like, yeah, we're
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obviously making a bowl game. There's times that we're like, what in the
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hell this is the same team we've had last year. From the beginning of
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the year, end of year. Everybody's thoughts I think this year were just
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scattered all throughout and I think that while we might have at some point believed
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that maybe we had something figured out one way or the other, we really
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didn't know. And here we are at the end of the year and everybody's
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got their own opinions and thoughts, some good, some bad, some It
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just it is what we were at the start of the year. It's kind
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of like, you, guys, the road the mambing backwards this year,
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so you go to the top of the roller coaster, although you guys start
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the bottom. See after two games, you gotta start the bomber coaster.
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Hit rock bottom at two games, then you climbed your way up, you
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hit the top, and boom right back down. After that you're at rock
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bottom again. It was a good top though, I mean pretty good.
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I just I just remember coming into the year like nobody knew what to expect,
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and we talked about a fan base and a program that not not divided
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is the right word, but we didn't know what to expect. We had
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some people that probably were not going to full on jump on the matt Ruhle
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train because we did that with Scott Frost, so maybe there's some hesitation in
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doing that. We still had the people jumping on and drinking the rule aid.
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From the get go, we had people that thought out this schedule,
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we should win eight or nine games. We had people saying, no,
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we just need to make a Bowl game and that would be a successful year.
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It just that's what we knew coming into the year and coming out of
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the year. Like, I just think that that that's confirmed, Like that's
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how the whole year went. And yeah, dat row the mamba backwards?
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I guess whatever that means. How often do you write the mambo? I've
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never wrote it. Well, how do you know it's backwards? Yeah?
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I was thinking. I was like, you know, you got to go
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up for you down, but you guys wrote it backwards. You went down
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up down. Number two thing that I wrote down. You can't beat yourself.
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I think we knew that already, but it just got confirmed again after
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twelve games. You can't do it. You cannot do the things that lose
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you games. Penalties I thought were better, but still much better, much
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better, but those are things. Turnovers I think are the big glaring issue
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here. And special teams talk about beating yourself, you know, making field
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goals, punting the ball at least consistently you can't beat your We knew that
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coming into the year and really even addressed it before the year, and guess
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what, we knew that it happened again, so against solidified belief. I
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think we knew that coming into the year, and I don't think our opinions
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changed on that, no, And I mean we did beat ourselves in a
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different way of this year than we did last year. I don't remember turnover
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as being that big of an issue last year. I mean, they were
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still an issue, but they weren't. I really feel like when you look
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at the penalties and stuff, we didn't have that many backbreaking families like we've
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had in the past. But the comment was just beating yourself more. I
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mean, all that stuff goes into it. We just we found ways to
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beat ourselves in games. Yeah. Third third thing kind of ties right along
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with it winning the Herodics and all caps. It tells you where my mind
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was that winning is not fucking easy. It's not easy, and it matters,
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and winning matters. It's not easy. We knew that it's hard to
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win games. It is, but it matters a lot to everybody, program,
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the coaches, players, That's what matters. The final score. You
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can play so shitty weekend week out, but if you win, you're looking
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at like Iowa's headed two you lose. Here we are I was a perfect
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team to say that about winning just matters because they I don't know how they're
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tend to, but they just won and their fans are happy. Now,
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did you guys see what the over underscores were by half for the Iowa Michigan
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A championship game? Where yeah, half and a half point Jesus Christ,
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Yeah, you're right, here's my last one. Solidified beliefs, and I
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think this waivered especially in my mind, especially early on, that kind of
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had me believe in something else. But then towards the end of the year
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came back to realizing what's actually true coaching and the process matters. It's not
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all about just getting the top recruits and pulling in pieces Dion Sanders Way,
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I think early on in the year that was I remember talking about it.
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We just said, you know, what is this The better approach is?
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You know, can you just hire a Peyton Manning and just get I thought
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that I started believing it, But guess what happened at the end of it
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all? Nothing good? Now Colorado still beat US. I'm not saying that
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didn't happen, But coaching and being a leader and all of that does still
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matter in today's college football landscape. Now, I'm not saying not matter as
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much as it did twenty years ago, but it's still a very key part.
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And you can't just bring in a celebrity and win games out of the
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There's a reason good coaches are always winning because the coaches, and that's just
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what attracts the good talent too. I mean, you don't want to go
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play for a shitty coach. Speaking of Colorado, is that the one game
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out of the year you guys both like to replay? Yes, well,
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actually, I'd probably like to replay Iowa. Actually, that's a good question.
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What game would I want to replay? I think if we replayed Colorado
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we still might lose. I want Michigan State back. Yeah, is that
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weird to say? That's tough? I think I would take Iowa. I
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don't know, is it Because if we're looking at it from the scope of
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we want to take it back and say we want to start over, Michigan
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State would make the most sense because that's the game that we had the highest
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chance of winning. I think that Game two sets the tone for what happened
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at the end of the year. The rest of the year, I think
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that might be true. Yeah, I think Colorado winner lose that the rest
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of the year could still happen the same way. Iowa. Yeah, I
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guess that probably would be nice to have them back and win it. But
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that's just one game. I don't know. Good question, Dak, very
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good question. Be surprised us once in a while. Okay, things I
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learned, and this is a long list. I may not go through all
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of them. There's some positives and some negatives here first one, and this
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is more of a personal maybe Husker football related, but just more how I
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thought about the season in general. I learned myself how to really say,
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you know what, I really don't give a shit what our fans think.
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Sometimes I don't care. Some of my closest friends are telling me, like
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I have my own belief about Husker football. I'm gonna enjoy it. I'm
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gonna have fun the way I want to have fun with it. And I
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might be negative, it might be frustrated, might be happy, but I'm
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just going to enjoy it because I'm a fan of Nebraska football and while I
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jokingly or actually kind of real and also becoming a fan of Case Date because
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it's also fun. But it's okay to just have your own opinions and thoughts
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and enjoy it however you want to enjoy it, and that might mean something
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very different for everybody else. That was just more of a personal personals good
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to hear shy programs have fans too, Yeah, Ida embracing that, and
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and my whole thought was like, yeah, you can read all this stuff
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on social media, and in today's society, it's easy just to believe what
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you see and what you read. And then you might have close friends that
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are trying to influence your opinion. You know what, you can believe whatever
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you want to believe with it and enjoy it. And people are not gonna
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always agree with you. That's totally okay. Don't let it impact your enjoyment
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of being a fan of a team. Football goes way too fast too,
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might as well enjoy it. Feels like we are just kicking off in Minnesota
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yesterday. It does. Now it's over. We're gonna we're gonna get sentimental
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about football season here. It just it. It is it's it's entertainment.
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That's what we're here for. That's why we're on a podcast. It's entertainment.
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It's fun, it's enjoyable. Wow, it's a life lesson learned.
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Sometimes it's enjoyable when you're sitting there watching already punch hole through TV because you're
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watching a b YU Oklahoma State game. It's it's not it's see but it's
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the passion that it's the passion of being a fan. That's what's great about
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it all. And you know what, if you ever stopped caring about your
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team, then I mean that tells you something, that tells you you're You're
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not you're becoming less of a fan. Like again, passion emotion, if
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you either in a positive or negative way, just tells you how much you
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care about something. It does it's good, it's good. It shows that
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the fans care. Correct. So that was a big thing I learned.
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Now let's move into actually some of the more tangible parts for Husker football.
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But three three five defense, it can work, and it can work really,
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really really well in the Big ten. It is everything that we thought
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it could be. From a difficult to prepare for creativity, you can do
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a lot with it, and there's a lot of doubts coming into the year.
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I think we learned that it can it can do its job, especially
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with a coach like coach White, it can be successful and it proved that
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time after time. And yes we played some bad offenses. That's that's fair,
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but it did a good job in the Big Ten, and I think
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we can all agree that we're not gonna scrap it moving forward against the run
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heavy football programs in the Big Ten. I mean it was good enough that
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I got the DC a head coaching interview after one year. Yeah, I
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i'll see your defense is really good this year. Take out Michigan. Besides
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the Michigan, did you play a single good offense though? Colorado? I
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don't know if i'd say they're good now, Dak, I know what you're
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saying that offenses aren't good, But what do they have to be that makes
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sense? Like we're in the Big Ten, We're gonna play Big Ten schools
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Like I get it. You go to the playoff and beat at Oklahoma just
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to make you a little happier, Like, yeah, it might be difficult,
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but in the Big Ten, I think that's what we're looking for here
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for defense, and I thought, again, a really good job against him
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what we had to play. And you look around and a lot of the
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score for other games where like twenty two to twenty five, you know,
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we were holding up to ten points basically every game, and that's with them
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getting five extra possessions every game because of turnovers. Agreed, Next thing,
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here learned a lot about Matt Rule. I think this year. First thing,
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Matt Rule is a leader meant and we knew that coming into the year.
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What I think I learned the most is that's his best quality is his
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his leadership capabilities. Now, with that being said, he's a big process
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guy, very very much explains this is gonna take time. He's selling that
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right now, and that's that's gonna be his message here for the next couple
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of years. I think we learned that that's how he likes to talk.
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And then on in addition, I think he loves to explain himself. He
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loves to go out and I'm saying that in a positive and negative way.
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There's times where he's explaining himself and I think it comes off very good and
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and and I have really good intentions and I think there's time that he explains
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himself to the point that you don't need to be explaining yourself. You're just
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saying to be done with you don't need to keep ranting on about X,
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Y and Z. And I think that that stuff came out later in the
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year and we were losing, and we allude to that here too. So
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I think he's a he's a he's a leader of men, he's an explainer.
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We just learned a lot about his personality and what type of person Matt
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Rule is at the head of football program, right, I agree, Dak.
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Yeah, I think it puts a really sour note into it because five
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and when you're five and three, you're sitting there like, damn, we
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have we have a great coach right now and everything and now that the end
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to it, it just makes a lot longer offseason. That's that's it.
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People were very critical of rules coaching, particularly the last four games, and
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I don't know if it's necessarily a fair critique. It's pretty hard when you
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turn the ball over every single offense possession, right, But if you're examining
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them from beyond the actual plays on the field, I totally agree. I
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think message wise, it came off great. I think the big red gb
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r rewind or whatever, gb gb rewind. How would you say that there's
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not two rs. That's kind of redundant gb rewind gbr rewind. Anyways,
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he came across pretty well there, and I think, you know, there's
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a couple of quotes out of that that people really chewed up. And he
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had some good you had some good speeches, right that went that went nationally,
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I mean on social media they did. And this kind of tags along
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with the next thing I have down for things I learned. We learned what
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Matt Rule's identity is more of the coaching style. And again I'm saying this
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in a very neutral standpoint as I did the last one too, Like there's
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positives and negatives with it. Matt Ruhle's identity of what he's trying to do
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is run the football and have strong defenses and not turn the ball over.
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That's what he wants to do. That is his identities of his team.
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Now, did we execute that? You got two of the three? Well?
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Yes? And how well when you talk about running the football, yeah,
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we did that a lot this year. How much of that is due
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to the lack of the quarterbacks that we had versus is what he actually wants
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to do, we don't know, but that's his identity of what he's trying
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to do. What I think the criticism comes in here later in the year
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is how much did he actually truly believe? If you truly believe in not
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turning the ball over and having a strong defense running the football, why does
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it keep happening? What's causing those things to occur in the game? And
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I don't know the answer to that. There's a lot of things. It
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comes down to players, comes down to play calling, it comes down to
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the situation on the field. You're a lot of things that go into it.
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But I think that's where the critique goes is what does he truly believe
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in what he's trying to preach as his identity. Because he's been very clear
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on what he wants to do. But does he truly believe and know how
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to establish that? I mean, I don't know. The turnover thing is
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the one that's tough to because that's an end game issue that you can coach.
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But going into the year, I mean, it was mostly quarterback driven
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turnovers. I mean, yeah, we had some fumbles, elsewhere, But
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the quarterbacks were the ones causing most of the turnovers. So you think you
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can probably coach that out of them, you think. But outside of that,
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I mean, that's just a that's a tough one to solve in season.
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The one the one thing I think is kind of neutra season is it's
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all on him. It's coming out of training camp. He picked Jeff Sims
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to be your quarterback. Ye, no clue what the hell he saw,
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But that's all on him picking that start out. But he did pivot.
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Yeah, he wasn't afraid to stick with Herberd even though Sims was healthy.
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Yeah. I mean, I think we talked about red flags here and there.
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I mean that that was a big one, very big one from the
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get go, and we're gonna be in a similar situation here going into next
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season. Last one that I have here things I learned. This is more
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of a big picture item. Jumping back to that another life lesson Austin,
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You're gonna love it. Negativity just sucks, a constant negativity and not having
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need light at the end of the tunnel just isn't fun. It's not it's
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not enjoyable, and it's wife advice avoid people that are just constantly negative.
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It just sucks. Now. On the flip side of that, this year
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I thought was one of the more enjoyable years because there was hope and there's
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still is hope. I think with Rule and the staff the last two or
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three years of Frost, I didn't see a lot of hope. In fact,
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I gave up on him in prior year three and and like like we've
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said, it lasted a little bit too long. This year was more enjoyable
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because there was hope throughout the whole year, all the way up into the
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last game. And yes, that hope is just getting to a ball game.
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I get it. I get that's the hope right now, is getting
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to a ballgame. But it made it more enjoyable and more fun to be
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a fan of Huscar football this year when you are in that situation, and
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yes, our expectations have gone way down, but that's kind of the life
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thing I learned, that's true. I think part of that though, is,
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you know, that's credit to Rule. I think I just remember Frost
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press conferences. You didn't you don't feel good. You didn't feel good.
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After a Frost press conference, it was like you felt yeah, at least
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rule at least projected that hope. And he's like, hey, we didn't
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get it this week, but we're gonna go back and we're gonna you know,
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here's what we didn't work on. You know, these guys are super
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bummed out, but you know we all want it as bad as you guys
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do. He kind of felt that. You just felt that throughout the year,
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and part of that's probably just because we did win more. We won
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more early, so you're just more hopeful because you're like, I've seen success,
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I've tasted it. That first quarter of Wisconsin, Oh boy, best
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quarter of Nebraska football in four years. Probably, Yeah, I totally agree.
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It just had a better energy to it. I think the players looked
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like they had more hope on the field and off the field, and I
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think as a fan it was easier to read. Yeah, And that's thing
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that like constructive criticism and like that side of coaching, and it is not
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important or self correction or whatever you want to say, like learning from your
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mistakes, that's all still needed. I'm just saying it is constant negativity with
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no solution just sucks. Like find a solution, like learn, get better
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and where we actually saw them learn we had like our biggest turnover, our
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biggest turnover game. Was it Maryland or was it Michigan State? Yeah,
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might have been Purdue, I don't remember. But the next game Wisconsin,
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we only had one turnover and it didn't even count. You know, we
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saw the progress and then we lost it obviously in Iowa. But you know
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whatever, whatever, there's moments and I'm I'm I guess this comment obviously reflects
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in the game. I was thinking more from a discussion standpoint with friends and
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on a podcast, and yeah, if you just come if you're just constantly
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negative about everything, it's probably awesome that you fell about me for a couple
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of years, Is it really? Like it's not fun if you just think
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about someone at at your job that just complains all the time and never like
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does anything about it. All I do is come in and complain every day.
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Oh I'm tired of this sucks, Like then then quit your job and
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then go do something else. Like if you're not having fun, then don't
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do it being a Husker fan. That don't be a Husker fan, Like
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you're just gonna if you're just gonna bitch about where we're at. I don't
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want to hear it because then when we're at the top, you're gonna be
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like, oh, I've been. It's like, nah, dude, you
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were at you were bailing on us at the bottom. Get out of here.
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Get the hell out of here, you too, Dak. Yeah,
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that's I just bitch all the time about the Huskers. But you can vent
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ben team. You know it's allowed. But the I think the good part
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is you can have hope coming in this offseason is because you know what your
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problem is after Frost. You know what the fucking problem was. You have
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every single issue in the book. You know what your problem is. It's
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quarterback and that's your main thing. So you have hope you know what you
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need to fix. Yep. And that goes right into what I guess things
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I wanted to learn as I was making my last number one, as you
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mentioned what do we need? What do we want out of our quarterback?
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And it's a two part question, right because the transfer portal is open.
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I think what we what people want is very different than what we really need
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according to our coaches, and we don't really know. That's why to want
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to learn things we don't know what they think, like, are they trying
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to get a guy in here that can throw it? Because here's my I'm
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scared of that because if we get a guy that come in here and throw
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it really really well, then Satterfield is going to try to throw at thirty
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plus times a game. So, like, I think that what we want
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need out of a quarterback is it's pretty delicate, I guess because I don't.
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I do we need an elite, elite quarterback. Some people are gonna
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say, yeah, yeah, we need we need to get a the top
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transfer portal QB into Nebraska. We need that. I mean, if if
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you want to be an elite program at some point, you need that.
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But for us next year, we do not need that. Like again to
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Phil rules identity and what he's trying to do, what are we after here?
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And that? I mean that's gonna be the burning off season question for
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the whole entire offseason is who this guy is gonna be? Oh yeah,
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I mean that's all like the Huskers subreddit, it's just well it's Grant Bricks
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now and then it's q BE portal transfer news. That is it mm hmm.
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Every quarterback I saw us going there quarterbacks going in the brass and guys,
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it's gonna sound really I'm not so sure, Chubba like, we need
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someone better than them, We need someone better than them, but a better
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version of them, a better version of them, is what I'm after,
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what I think we should get. And once we get to Dak's game here,
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I'll explain who that person is. People might already know. Second thing
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that I want to learn is how our defense continue to get better? Or
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will we be satisfied with how this season went on a defense event? And
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that's a big picture question. There's definitely places improved, but it's tough to
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want more. It's tough to want more than what we had. And Dak's
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not wrong, plays a bad offense. So how are we will we get
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better on the defensive end? You know, you know, after I said
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defense is good, they after Austin brought up your offense putting you ons turnovers
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situations, your defense dill playing good, they were, I don't know,
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think about that. I don't know how you can want much more that.
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And that's where I'll see how we'll see how hungary this coaching staff and these
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players are too, because we need to keep Tony White here, we'll see
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how much we're willing to give to keep him around. I know the official
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report came out that he interviewed with San Diego State. So I'm with you
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a lot. This is the last big thing, and there's a lot more
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that we probably could add to this category. What has Matt Ruhle learned about
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situational football at the college level? If there was one negative, big negative
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thing, and I think that I saw from rule was a lot of the
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time and situation parts of the game. I mean, first half and second
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half. There's a lot. And again you can pick specific situations, but
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at a big picture, I don't think the clock management and game management was
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great. That seemed to be the one thing that kept coming up. So
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again, what was learned. It's different than the NFL, totally different.
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We talked back and forth about these losses at the end of the year,
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like what was learned from that? If any Yeah, I hope something has
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learned. If something probably has been learned, I will. I don't want
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to give him an excuse, but managing an end of a game is so
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hard when you have quarterbacks who are willing to turn it over anytime you throw
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the ball or fumble the ball, and you have a kicker who's like I
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can put it in good from sixty five, but could also miss it from
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twenty two. I mean that those those are just what you need to end
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the games, is ball security and a consistent kicking game, and we did
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not have either of those. Makes it real tough to call in it the
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last two minutes. Yeah, I hope his timeout situations at the end of
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games I didn't like that much. I think it needs to work on that
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wisconsinct especially. I still don't know why he wastes so much time there,
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and I can't I still can't remember what the I think his first half timeout
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situation too, I can't remember what the hell it was. But there's just
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a lot of little things I guess from a This is the other thing that's
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another in his defense that I love. I heard this on a podcast earlier
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this year. This is kind of weird to think about, but coaches in
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college football and NFL, they don't watch games from start to finish like a
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fan does. When they turn on games, they're watching clips. They're watching
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specific plays. We watched so much, so many more games so to us.
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Sometimes the time management seems very easy. Take a time out right now,
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take a time out and they waste a secon Why that helld you did
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you take it eight seconds ago? Like we see it on TV, and
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we see so many situations we know sometimes better than they do. So a
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little bit of a catch twenty two. They're keep in mind that, like
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they need to get somebody on stats, say no time out now we will
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go like that kind of stuff. So okay, yeah, I want to
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add Yeah, I was gonna say, I want to add two quick things
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I learned. Yea one, Donny Riola. We got two big ten all
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honor like honorable mentions. Olignement might actually be a better O line coach than
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we thought. Maybe. I like that one a lot. I was pleasantly
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surprised with that. They were not They did not stick out in a negative
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way like they have the past couple of years. They were not talked and
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they were not praised. They weren't two of them were praised big ten honorable
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mention. Yeah, Bryce Benhart, who we thought was terrible, Oh god,
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actually good. Yeah. Uh. The other one under valued seniority on
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the defensive side of the ball. Definitely coming into the Air should have seen
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that one coming. I think we're gonna miss a lot of those older guys
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leaving agreed. I'm with you, all right, Dak. Let's play this
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game, all right, we're gonna play this or that. Oh boy,
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here, I will over under six and a half points for their game under
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over defense is gonna score a touchdown. I like that, all right,
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we'll do for the future. Who would rather have as a Husker coach right
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now? Which I would wish? Would ask this about four weeks ago?
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Matt Ruler? Dion Matt r Yeah, yeah, that's about four weeks too
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late, right there. That's who would you take? Oh boy, probably
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Matt rule right now? That's where we a that's no question, dionne I
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don't know what happens first, Nebraskat fotball wins a playoff game or Nebraska basketball
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makes a Final four. Give give me the playoff game football win? Yes,
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now you change that to make a Sweet sixteen, Oh, brasketball.
34:25
I couldn't make it easy on you. I would take the brasketball if it's
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Sweet sixteen, but I'm taking football if it's the final four. Yep,
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I'm with you. Sixteen. Here's the one I was talking about quarterbacks earlier,
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kJ Jefferson or Will Howard. Who would you rather have as your quarterback
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next year? Probably Will Howard. Guys, Will Howard fits my proto type
34:54
perfect of what I want. I was watch in that case Staate gave until
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they lost on Saturday. Oh my god, wouldn't it be nice to have
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Will Howard as or quarterback? Said we'd start six and oh if Will Howard
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comes here, I actually say that I might have some alcohol of me.
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You definitely will confience at six and oh one, no quarterback. So guys,
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Will Howard would be just a little step ahead, like he's not gonna
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be an elite guy like kJ Jefferson would would be the worry that I would
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have saturdafilla and say, oh my god, we got k J. Jefferson.
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Let's sling it around like we're not doing that with Will Howard. We're
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just doing what we did this year a little better and not turning it over
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because Will Howard's surehanded. Oh I would love Will Howard. I'd be happy
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either one if I was a Husker fan. All right, two more questions.
35:45
Who is the better coach in Nebraska? Scott Frost or Mike Riley.
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Mike Riley found a doubt Mike Riley, I guess guess he will. I
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always said that, And no, no, Deck, you don't know what
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you're talking about. Huh okay, all right? For the playoffs? Would
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you out of these three? I guess Georgian be into But these three,
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who would you pick to go to the playoffs? Undefeated florest State, one
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last Texas or one last Bama for the final spot? One lost Texas of
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underfeet of Florida State? Yes, yeah, undefeated Florida State. I think
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so too, But that would be it's gonna be a hell of an argument
36:38
that comes down to that. I don't I mean, I I would respect
36:44
if they put Bama in with one loss, but I don't think anybody wants
36:46
that to happen just because they've been in it so many times. You can't
36:50
put Bama in over Texas because Texas beat them at Bama. Yep, yeah,
36:55
I hate Texas, but you can't put them. You can't put Bama
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in over Texas. And then you're just saying the games don't matter exactly.
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So there's a lot more talk about here playoff discussion. I think there's it's
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juicy this year, guys, it's it's it's juicy, it is Sunday will
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be a spicy one maybe, or it will be blaming. Will be four
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undefeated teams in the playoffs. And it's just a really lazy option for the
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College Ball Playoff Committee, which was for himed, so we just didn't put
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in undefeated teams. But whatever, it's fine. That's a big day playoffs
37:25
and and biggas basketball game in years. And Nebraska's coming off of a win
37:30
over Creton, right that give us your lock, give us your lock of
37:37
the weekend. Oh, this might be lock of the this is lock of
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the year. Georgia mins final and a half. Oh god damn it.
37:44
Well, Alabama's winning fact lock of the years are zeroing too. I think
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Georgia kicks the ship out of Alabama, say for winning the SEC Championship,
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and then I'll clam and wins SC next year. That's exactly how it's not
38:07
gonna go that great game of this or that. Really was just asking questions
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to us, But this or that, I guess, hey, two options
38:15
this or that? All right, We'll be back on Sunday. Go be
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red Bloomer sooner, all right, that