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Blackout · Husker Buzz

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Speaker 1: Jim Rose back here tomorrow. I'm Scott Voorhees welcoming live
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Speaker 1: in Lincoln, Sean Callahan. Sean, you're going to be put
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Speaker 1: to death. You get a final meal. What's it going
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Speaker 1: to be?
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Speaker 2: Probably a good ribeye. You've got to have something that's
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Speaker 2: going to go down with you forever, right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I think the all-you-can-eat buffet and then
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Speaker 1: just constantly say, wait a second, I have not had
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Speaker 1: all I could eat. You could live for years forever.
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Speaker 2: It's got to be like the crab leg night at
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Speaker 2: the casino.
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Speaker 1: See, I thought maybe you'd say a Fairbury hot dog
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Speaker 1: or Ronza or Valentino's pizza with as much time. As
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Speaker 1: you spend at Memorial Stadium this Saturday night, it's a
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Speaker 1: blackout game, and the athletic director, Troy Dannen, also had
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Speaker 1: a few other fun things he wanted to throw at
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Speaker 1: the crowd on Saturday night or have the crowd throw
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Speaker 1: up into the air. What's going on on Saturday night
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Speaker 1: in terms of a party atmosphere?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, blackouts, obviously, a lot of new black merchandise,
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Speaker 2: black jerseys, black balloons. They're going to paint the field black,
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Speaker 2: all the logos, all the end zones. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be a great night for Memorial Stadium. Believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: it's the first home game on Halloween here since 1998.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know how that works with the calendar,
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Speaker 2: but they somehow avoided a Halloween home game all these years.
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Speaker 2: since the Texas game when Ricky Williams and Major Applewhite
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Speaker 2: were here. They did play Purdue on the road one
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Speaker 2: year on Halloween, but it's not been a normal deal.
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Speaker 2: But obviously the legendary Colorado game in the early 90s
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Speaker 2: was another Halloween game. Nebraska has only lost twice on
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Speaker 2: Halloween in history.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you're looking at the field, at midfield
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Speaker 1: they have something kind of special cooked up too, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to have the skull and the crossbones
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Speaker 2: on the midfield, which will be very unique. We haven't
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Speaker 2: seen that ever, obviously, other than the traditional right end
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. Troy Dannen's like, look,
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Speaker 2: there's going to be the people that want the attention
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Speaker 2: on social media that try to rip something they're doing.
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Speaker 2: But he has a lot of people have fun with it.
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Speaker 2: They like it. And it was really well received last year.
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Speaker 2: And they're excited about this year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course, alternate uniforms, we're going blacks. And
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Speaker 1: if we beat Washington on Saturday night, no one will
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Speaker 1: be talking about all that goofy stuff on Sunday. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, if Nebraska, let's just say, let's go out
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Speaker 1: on a limb and say we have a lead going
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Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter and then end up losing the game.
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Speaker 1: In the highly unlikely scenario that that would ever happen
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Speaker 1: to this team, then everyone's going to be talking about, well,
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Speaker 1: they're goofing around with this and they changed this and
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Speaker 1: the tradition's gone and blah, blah, blah. So you know what?
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Speaker 1: A win on Saturday night takes care of all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: The injury report's coming out today. We talked a little
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Speaker 1: bit yesterday about the running back position. Everything else seemed
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Speaker 1: to be in pretty good shape, especially on the defensive side.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Anthony Jones, as we know, is out for a
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Speaker 2: few weeks. He will return at some point with a
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Speaker 2: broken bone in his foot. But the running back room,
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Speaker 2: I think, was the most promising report we got that
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Speaker 2: three of the backs are out there practicing. Isaiah Mosey, even,
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Speaker 2: is back at practice. Jamal Rule and Mekhi Nelson, all
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Speaker 2: of them had ankle injuries. And the bye week came
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Speaker 2: at a great time. And I'll tell you this, you
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Speaker 2: never know on an ankle until they get out there
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Speaker 2: and do it in a game. Because once you make
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Speaker 2: that hard cut, You know, you find out a lot
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Speaker 2: about maybe where you're at health-wise and if you can
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Speaker 2: do what you can do. But Jamal Rule is the
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Speaker 2: one that they need back. They need a run game
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Speaker 2: to complement Calandria. And, you know, they kind of called
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Speaker 2: the backs out a little bit. Like, hey, you've got
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Speaker 2: to make guys miss. You've got to make plays. And
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Speaker 2: it's Big Ten football now. You've got to show up
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Speaker 2: these next five games.
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Speaker 1: What about the emphasis on special teams during the bye week?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they only practiced a few times, and
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Speaker 2: it wasn't more light workouts. They didn't get a kick
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Speaker 2: a field goal out of Oregon. So that's, I think,
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Speaker 2: still on the back of my mind. Can Kyle Cunanan
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Speaker 2: come in and make some kicks? Because these games are
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Speaker 2: under 20 points right now in the Big Ten, and
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Speaker 2: a three-point kick is huge. Cunanan's had the three long
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Speaker 2: 50-plus yard misses, then the big 40-some yard miss against Indiana. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, you're going to probably need those here down
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Speaker 2: the stretch. So that's probably my biggest concern still is
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Speaker 2: can they make live field goals in games? They've had
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Speaker 2: such little opportunities to kick field goals or they've chosen
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Speaker 2: not to kick them. And eventually you're going to need
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Speaker 2: some of these kicks down the stretch here.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's have some fun this Saturday night. Sean, appreciate
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Speaker 1: the time this morning. Jim Rose is back to jaw
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Speaker 1: with you tomorrow morning right here.
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Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, guys.
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