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Episode 11 | Identity · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big Rent that takes the numbers, the Chaos Hunter,
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  Speaker 1: Austin Dak talking corn Husker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Return to Glory Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Return to Glory Podcast Hunter, Sarryer, Nikki and Austin Rose
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  Speaker 2: helps us out, gets us out there more visibility. Today's
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  Speaker 2: topic is identity. Austin, I want to start with one
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  Speaker 2: question for you. Take the red end off of those
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  Speaker 2: white helmets and put us in some plain white jerseys.
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  Speaker 2: There's twenty plays that you get to watch for Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell me what program you're watching?
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  Speaker 3: Sin's that's an interesting question.
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  Speaker 4: If it's on Halloween, they're gonna be black helmets with
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  Speaker 4: the horrible reflector red.
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  Speaker 3: We can circle back to that at some point.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it depends on which team, because it's I was
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  Speaker 4: thinking about this the other day because Temple.
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  Speaker 3: I was watching it. I was watching the New.
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  Speaker 4: Jack Reacher season, which is okay for those of you
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  Speaker 4: interested on Amazon Prime. I don't know if anyone watches it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's fine. But one of the kids, the son
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  Speaker 4: of the person who kills themselves, plays a temple, and
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  Speaker 4: I was.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking about it, and.
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  Speaker 4: One there were times last year where it just felt
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  Speaker 4: like we weren't like, we weren't not not we just
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  Speaker 4: weren't a big program, and so I thinking about the
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  Speaker 4: players that we're calling and it just kind of felt disheveled.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it got a little bit more clear.
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  Speaker 4: When Rayola went out. Uh, but what team are we
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  Speaker 4: to take the end off? Where a team I said,
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  Speaker 4: if you if you ask based off the bowl game,
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  Speaker 4: we're a team that we're going to run the ball
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  Speaker 4: because we don't have any offensive firepower behind the line
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  Speaker 4: to throw it.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what we tried to do and it did
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  Speaker 3: not work. Yeah, it just I don't know. I genuinely
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We've been a little familiar y with with whatever players
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  Speaker 4: we can have. Last year we were much more much
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  Speaker 4: more of the team that's like, Okay, we're gonna try
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  Speaker 4: to run the ball three times or do a short pass.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the conservative offenses that kind of dink and
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  Speaker 4: dump their way down the field. And honestly, our offense
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  Speaker 4: wasn't bad last year. You look at the numbers. It
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  Speaker 4: just didn't feel great because we lost a lot of
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  Speaker 4: games by a lot of points that we wanted to win.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what we are. I think we're a
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  Speaker 3: conservative offense. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I think the fact that.
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  Speaker 2: He struggled to answer that question, I think is a
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  Speaker 2: good segue into our conversation today.
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  Speaker 1: And what this identity means. So to me, when I'd
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  Speaker 1: say identity, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't I necessarily don't think like play callins. I guess
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  Speaker 2: a part of it, but I don't think about you know,
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  Speaker 2: what formation are we in?
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  Speaker 3: Part?
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  Speaker 2: Part of that is you know, I think identity is
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  Speaker 2: part it's part of your scheme, like your scheme's part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think identity is deeper than that.
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  Speaker 2: It's your if your football like constitution on how how
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  Speaker 2: do you believe football games are?
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  Speaker 1: One?
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  Speaker 3: And and?
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  Speaker 2: And to me, I see like two extremes with it.
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  Speaker 2: One and you touched on this already. One is I
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  Speaker 2: have a system.
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  Speaker 1: It works. I don't care who is a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this and this is what I believe.
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  Speaker 2: In the other extreme is every year you take players
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  Speaker 2: that you have on your roster and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: run what fits them the best and what I believe
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  Speaker 2: fits them the best. I think the truth lies somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of that, and I lean more. You
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  Speaker 2: know how, you have to have an identity to believe
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  Speaker 2: what you do, so that way you can recruit the
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  Speaker 2: players to fit that identity. If you don't have an
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  Speaker 2: then you're just trying to fit your players. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's a smart room.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Some coaches do that, and I think you saw maybe
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  Speaker 2: a version of that with with Dylan Royal last year.
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  Speaker 2: So like, where are you at on that spectrum?
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  Speaker 4: Overall, the spectrum being we have no just if you
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  Speaker 4: were a coach, like, I'm definitely more if you're saying,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we have something, that's what we do, and
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  Speaker 4: then the other one is we're total chameleon to our players.
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely more on that. If we this is what
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  Speaker 3: we do.
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  Speaker 4: Like I want to be, you know, and you find
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  Speaker 4: I find myself that way, like when I play two
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  Speaker 4: K when I'm playing you know, managers like I want
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  Speaker 4: to be. I want to be big, physical, you know,
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  Speaker 4: my guys, I'm not going to be the space and
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  Speaker 4: pace offense. I'm gonna have big post players that I
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  Speaker 4: like using. And I want to be defensive base, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because that's how I.
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  Speaker 1: Just like, that is your identity.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's I liking two kids. I like him man,
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  Speaker 3: And you know it.
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  Speaker 4: There's just like a there's a certain way in which
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  Speaker 4: I like to play board games. It's like I want
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  Speaker 4: to be you know, I've played Risk Legacy. For those
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  Speaker 4: of you nerds out there who have played several rounds
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  Speaker 4: of Risk Legacy, probably not any of anyone listening to
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  Speaker 4: this podcast, but you know, it's always like I want
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  Speaker 4: to be hard to kill and easy to move.
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  Speaker 3: You know. That's that's always been kind of like my
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  Speaker 3: board game preference.
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  Speaker 4: And so like, you know, like I have like kind
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  Speaker 4: of how I want to do things and I and
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  Speaker 4: I'd say for football, it's definitely the same way I
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  Speaker 4: want to be. I want to be primarily like big,
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  Speaker 4: strong defense, tough to move, but flexible on the offensive side.
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  Speaker 1: And and yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: What what I believe to you know, having an identity,
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  Speaker 2: A A a system, A belief on how you think
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  Speaker 2: wins games, which is what you described. Then then it
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  Speaker 2: the biggest reason why it matters is when you're building
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  Speaker 2: a team, when you have the ability to build a team. Now,
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  Speaker 2: at all levels of coaching in sports, you don't always
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  Speaker 2: have that freedom. Obviously you go down to the high
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  Speaker 2: school level, well it's changing a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Now, but you don't. You're you're kind of given what
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  Speaker 1: you got.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's development in high school, so you can develop
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  Speaker 2: people to your identity and what you believe in.
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  Speaker 1: And coach to that.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as the player's talents goes, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have as much. Say NFL, I guess is kind of
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  Speaker 2: I would say maybe college is probably maybe where you
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  Speaker 2: have the most control because you really can pick and
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  Speaker 2: choose your players as a coach more so now there's
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  Speaker 2: there's general managers now and there's more.
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  Speaker 1: But NFL, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes your coach, especially if you go to NBA, like
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  Speaker 2: you're given what the owners and the gms and all
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  Speaker 2: of the front office gives you, and you're you're in
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  Speaker 2: charge of coming out, especially because coaches don't get some
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  Speaker 2: long strings anymore in the NBA. In NFL, we are
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  Speaker 2: slowly getting back here. I think I lost the connection
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  Speaker 2: with Austin. I think we're back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, We're We're back.
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  Speaker 1: We're back.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the key thing is, I think in college
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  Speaker 2: you your identity matters the most because you are truly
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  Speaker 2: recruiting and getting players as a coach and as a
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  Speaker 2: program to fit what you what you want. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the best example here is is
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  Speaker 2: what Signette did in Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: And it might not be getting.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the highest, most star recruits, but the
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  Speaker 2: guys that he got from James, that he brought up
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  Speaker 2: from James Madison and you know, brought into fill those
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  Speaker 2: gaps were fitting exactly what he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it worked.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I think that's an extreme, right and the Indiana thing,
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  Speaker 2: as we've talked about, is been very impressive. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: if he can do it in a third year. But
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a little bit of an extreme of
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  Speaker 2: how it worked, but also at the same time it
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  Speaker 2: tells you it can work in today's environment in college
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  Speaker 2: football if you know exactly what you want to win
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  Speaker 2: football games, and you want to talk about the Signettianism's
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  Speaker 2: his when you ask him, hey.
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  Speaker 1: What what what what do you think is happening? Or
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  Speaker 1: how do you win game?
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  Speaker 2: And he lists off like fifteen one word answers like
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  Speaker 2: that's his identity, that those are the things that he
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  Speaker 2: believes in, and that's what he's recruiting to first players.
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  Speaker 2: So all that being said, you you you started Austin
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  Speaker 2: a little bit on your h philosophy. I guess on
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  Speaker 2: what you thought, what.
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  Speaker 1: What what if you had?
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  Speaker 2: If you if you were data holders, and let's even
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  Speaker 2: say an offensive coordinator, and if you want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about defense too, like what's your what are the most
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  Speaker 2: important things that you are preaching for your offense and
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  Speaker 2: or defense?
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  Speaker 1: If if you were in charge of a.
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  Speaker 4: Team, most person things that I preached for the offensive defense.
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  Speaker 3: I am. I'm more in the I am in the
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  Speaker 3: run the ball group.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna preach the importance of no no negative plays,
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  Speaker 4: like you know, if if they get we're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: get tackled behind the line of scrimmage. We're gonna try
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  Speaker 4: to move the ball forward, no negative plays, you know,
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  Speaker 4: conservative aggressivism. It's like, hey, we're gonna take shots, but
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna know when to take the shots. Uh. It's
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  Speaker 4: like I just think that it's kind of funny. I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking back to like, you know, when when I play mad,
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  Speaker 4: and what what do I want? You know, I want
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  Speaker 4: my tight ends involved, I want my running backs, I
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  Speaker 4: want my quarterback bobole. What Holger's industry preaching though, is, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: this is you know we have we have a big
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  Speaker 4: offensive line, and we had an old offensive line last year.
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  Speaker 3: But you know this, I think.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't seen any games played, but this is likely
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  Speaker 4: going to be the best offensive line we've seen in
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  Speaker 4: rules tenure. That could be optimistic and maybe misreading the situation,
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  Speaker 4: but I think I think Holgerson is going to be
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  Speaker 4: I know, Ema Johnson's gone, but we're going to do
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  Speaker 4: the exact same thing last year, except we're going to
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  Speaker 4: execute in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what he's saying this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and yeah, I like your answer. I think actually
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  Speaker 2: we're very similar in our identity.
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  Speaker 1: I think Nebraska's point. I'll say this first, there's a.
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  Speaker 2: Difference in speaking your identity and what you think you
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  Speaker 2: want to do, which we are kings of that, as
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  Speaker 2: we know here in Nebraska, of saying this is what
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  Speaker 2: we're you know, this is who we are, and what
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  Speaker 2: what you should be excited about from a fan.
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  Speaker 4: Base where we're that person that in college that you
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  Speaker 4: know they used to work out three times a week
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  Speaker 4: in college, but now they're forty years old, they're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a big lifter and it's like you was last
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  Speaker 4: wee List is like, well, you know, I have knee issues.
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  Speaker 2: Like so it's a little bit we we've heard what
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  Speaker 2: we believe. But I think there's the second part of
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  Speaker 2: that obviously is seeing that execute on the field, because
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  Speaker 2: you can you can say what you want. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're believing in a running quarterback this year, right,
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  Speaker 2: That's what was said. That wasn't said last year clearly
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  Speaker 2: because if it was, we would have tried to get
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  Speaker 2: Dylan to be a very different type of QB. So
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  Speaker 2: so that that's where you're Obviously your identity can change,
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  Speaker 2: but the lack of of what you exactly want as
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  Speaker 2: a coach, I think matters.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the same way like.
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  Speaker 2: I You probably know, I want a mobile quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: I'm running this mobile quarterback often and I'm recruiting multiple
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  Speaker 2: guys that can also run this and this hits well
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  Speaker 2: to us because I do think T J. Latif when
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  Speaker 2: t J. Latif comes in this year, if he has to,
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  Speaker 2: We're not. We don't have to change our entire offensive
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  Speaker 2: system because we have the two guys that are that
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  Speaker 2: are capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a positive.
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  Speaker 2: I think you are running the ball, you know, efficiently
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  Speaker 2: enough so you can set up a play action passing
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  Speaker 2: in a short passing game. I'm not it's it's a
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  Speaker 2: grinded out approach. Yes, it's it's ugly like Iowa like
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  Speaker 2: I think. Until you until you are a top five
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  Speaker 2: team where you have the capability to get the best
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  Speaker 2: athletes in the country and and exploit some things, you
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  Speaker 2: have to set up a game plan that gives you
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win against teams are just flat out
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  Speaker 2: better than you, and that involves milking the clock, establishing
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  Speaker 2: a run game, being able to be creative with your scheme. Defensively,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can go multiple ways of being very aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: You have the bend but no break. We've gone down
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  Speaker 1: that route. Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You can talk about the different formations man ver zone coverage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what do you more believe in there? I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big bend, don't break guy. And then once
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  Speaker 2: you get to the red zone, you put the straps
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  Speaker 2: on and and and go like let the offense mess up.
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  Speaker 2: That's my belief on on defense and football. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: I hate big plays, just they feel like a knife
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Heart they are.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that might mean you you're giving up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of yards throughout the game. I get that, But but
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  Speaker 2: I think you know you're really good teams. Maybe that
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  Speaker 2: that that means you get to change to some things up.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of teams, when you're playing Nebraska in
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  Speaker 2: the mirror, they're gonna mess up at some point.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my thought on defense.
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  Speaker 2: The last question before we jump into more Nebraska's here,
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  Speaker 2: Like I, Austin, I want to ask I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I've asked you this yet.
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  Speaker 1: I've asked a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I did name the four most important positions individual positions.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and and this is part of your identity, right,
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  Speaker 2: this will this will help define this on both offense,
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  Speaker 2: and they can be offense or defensive positions. But if
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  Speaker 2: you had to get the four best players of this
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  Speaker 2: position in the country, what four positions would you pick?
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  Speaker 4: So the way I'm getting to assess how I do
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  Speaker 4: this is when I do I when I'm running.
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  Speaker 3: A team on Madden.
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  Speaker 4: So this is my typical approaches. I'm taking either an
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  Speaker 4: elite defensive tackle or edge, you know. Round one, round two,
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  Speaker 4: I'm probably taking a quarterback, and then round three and four,
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  Speaker 4: I'm taking whatever two.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if this is anything, I'm probably taking a
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  Speaker 3: tackle in a center.
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  Speaker 4: That's how I imagined, That's how I like to draft,
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  Speaker 4: and that's probably what I do. If I know, if
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  Speaker 4: I was a could have any four, that's those are
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  Speaker 4: the four I want.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I so realign a lot with that, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that speaks to the importance of a run game
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  Speaker 2: and a strong offensive and defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta have a playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm going quarterback, center, edge, rusher, and probably a
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  Speaker 2: middle linebacker for me, because to me, that's your quarterback
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  Speaker 2: of your defense. So I think I think tackles in
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  Speaker 2: their next wide receiver. I've been a little bit swayed
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  Speaker 2: on I I.
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  Speaker 1: Think it helps.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's necessarily a game changer, but
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  Speaker 2: I do think having a good red wide receiver is
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  Speaker 2: very impactful.
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  Speaker 1: Running back some kind of the opposite on I think
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  Speaker 1: you're running.
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  Speaker 2: Backs, especially game committees are totally okay if you have
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  Speaker 2: a really strong offensive line and the other position that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of got brought up a lot when I've asked
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  Speaker 2: is corner, And I agree having one is good. It
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  Speaker 2: also kind of fits into your scheme a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think some people are thinking we need a corner
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  Speaker 2: to lock down an opposing team stud receiver. Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: if you're playing strictly man all the time, like and
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  Speaker 2: and that, and that's great. I mean, if that's what
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  Speaker 2: you're you're thinking, I'm a more mix it up type
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  Speaker 2: of person, keep them off balance. I'm playing a lot
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  Speaker 2: more zone, different types of zone blitzes and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: So anyways, mental identity here, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: this a bit too. We talk a lot about strategy.
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  Speaker 2: I also think you have to you have to remember
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  Speaker 2: there's a culture side to your identity as well, in
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  Speaker 2: how the players fit in. And this actually is fitting
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  Speaker 2: because yesterday Tike Hayes, the Penn State Iowa Western former
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  Speaker 2: from those two schools and now got brought on as
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  Speaker 2: a running back here as we thought maybe would be
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  Speaker 2: maybe a band aid for Makai Nelson. Mikai Nelson seems
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  Speaker 2: to be playing and back with the team. And now
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  Speaker 2: Tyke Hayes has been let go and and released. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that that is because of anything that
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  Speaker 2: he did or if it wasn't a culture fit, but
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I'm just guessing that maybe it just didn't work out
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: well here with with the locker room and and and
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I think having having your standard of what the locker
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: room is about and how you're handling players, For me,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the number one thing with identity there is is accountability.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And toughness, And to me, those two things kind of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: go hand in hand.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I also think those words get thrown around everywhere, not
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: just in sports, but in in in the business world
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and in life, and everybody has their own definition of
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: what those are and how to handle those and what
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: accountability means, how to hold somebody accountable.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I think all those things are are unique to the coach.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I think those things, to.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Me are our most important in a in a in
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: a culture, and an identity in the locker room.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I do think Matt Ruhle has done a decent job,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: But whenever anyone interviews or talks, I feel like it's
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: it does come out through his players. You know, they
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: are all kind of saying the same thing, and I do.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I do think he hammers at home with them for
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: the most part, and.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: As far as locker rooms go, it's been a pretty.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Uh what's I mean, drama free run over the last
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: four years. You know, there has been a lot of
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: incidents where it's like, oh man, how are we going.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: To handle this?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: He's been pretty swift and like, hey, this dude, this
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: dude's gone. You know, that's this isn't the tigy hazes
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: like the first guy and I beg.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: On the why it's gone.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: But you know, he's been He's been pretty consistent on
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: how he handles players internally.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Does it make you a little bit sick that there's
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: that part of you that just wishes you were Iowa?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you would to talk about an extreme of identities,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: uh as we jump into Nebraska here and what our
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: identity is, Like I that's why I think a little
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: bit the hatred, not hatred, but his hatred.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: But you just jealous.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: It's a little bit of jealousy for me. It's a
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: little bit of like that's kind of what I believe
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: in now. I think there's things obviously to tweak it
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and make it better, but like your your core substance
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: of what Kirk Farence has done in Iowa is kind
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: of what I would do a little bit if I
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: was a football coach.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: And had the babe maybe a little better offensive decision,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: but you know, I probably wouldn't have kept you know,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Brian around quite.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: As long as I did. And I'm only putting up
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: you know, six points a game, but he.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And that maybe was a little family impact. I don't know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but it just it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's one of those things like now, so now
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: you look at Nebraska and this is the question, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: we're we'll talk a ton more about identity here for
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: for us as we can into the season and what
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that means, because every year it seems like this comes up.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: And I think that this identity question sometimes is becoming
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: media speaker or fans speak and coaches might say, oh,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: it doesn't, it doesn't the you guys don't really understand,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: like this is this is what we're dealing with.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Well to a.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Point, yes, but if you go just oversimplify it, like
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: if you don't know what you believe in as a coach,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: like that's a problem and you have to know you
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: can't just every year take it more puzzle pieces and
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: try to fit them in on how they're gonna work.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So I think the question is, like, you we know
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: what Iowa is, right, like you you take the you
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: take the ugly gold off the black helmets of the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Iowa and watch them play.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: You, Oh, that looks like Iowa football, like you could
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you could say that Nebraska. That's where we don't know.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: And what I would say, traditionally the it's kind of
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: like the universities have their identities. Traditionally we've been a
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: mobile quarterback, run heavy, and I would say mostly conservative defense.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say we've ever really been.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: One of the most established pronounced identities in college football
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: history is the Nebraska option. Yes, and like that is
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: one like that if you started showing clips of that,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: people be like, that's Nebraska in the nineties. That that
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: is very, very established of what that was and it
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: was built upon the pipeline and the weightlifting and these
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: big and then and then let's go, let's go to
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a second identity. And it's also just a the black
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Shirts on defense. That was the black Shirts itself was
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: an identity. And those are two different, right, The options
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: more schematic based identities black Shirts is not is not
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: a schematic. The black Shirts was a culture. The black
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Shirts was a that that's an identity of who you were.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: We've had it, and so that's what I'm saying, is
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: like we were so far away from that and gone
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: from that where I don't know where we're at now.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And that's the question we've been asking, and we've been
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: bouncing around and changing coordinators and changing schemes, and it
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: comes down to knowing what you want as a program,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: as a head coach, and sticking to that recruiting guys
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to that, because yeah, like any new coaching program, it
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: sucks when you're changing it because you you have to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: try to get different types of people to fit that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: And yeah, you get a five star and Dylan Royola
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: in here, it makes it tough because you want to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: get him in here, and maybe he doesn't fit what
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you want. Well, now you've got to adjust everything and
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: it just throws everything off.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: So I think it'll go for.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: That's my Yeah, the general thought.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I just I just I don't I don't think we
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: know what we want and therefore, and I'm not saying
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: just rule this is gone you okay.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Scott Frost I.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Would say he's even been He was worse than the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: rule of not knowing what the hell he wanted.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: We went all over the board with him.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Now, what's funny is if you ask someone what's Matt
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Ruhle's philosophy or identity, and you ask somebody what Scott Frost,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you would have a better answer with Scott Frost now
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: doesn't match what I think that it should be.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: No note at all, but you can maybe.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: At least define what he wants or what he wanted,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and he just didn't get the players and it didn't work.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I think I agree it's and I think that's kind
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: of rule is too. I mean, you know he.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Wants a bubble quarterback because when he first got here,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: he's like I got Jeff Simms boom, and then we
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: got Dylan Real and he's like, I totally agree with
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: like that. Okay, this guy the number one quarterback, and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: the recruit class was to come here like we're gonna
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: take him when you have arm talents, like we're gonna
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: figure this out, and we just didn't figure it out.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I mean part of that was he broke his leg
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: when maybe we were gonna figure it last year. Would
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: have been the year to figure it out, and we
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: had we brought it a coordinator to better fit him,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: and you know, you put your chips in on a
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: guy and it didn't work. And I think this is
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: the year where it's like, okay, we're resetting, Like this
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: is what we wanted.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I wanted.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I want a mobile quarterback and on an offensive line.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: We're gonna spend our money. That's the whole other thing
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: about it. It's either just it now you have to
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: spend money to establish our identity correct, which you know,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: when you're paying your quarterback, however much we were paying,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: don't that that impacts where you're spending money elsewhere. We've
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: talked about that money. But I do think this is
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: what Rule wants. A mobile quarterback and the big offensive line.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: And on the defensive side, he wants a flexible defense,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: like like that's why you think he was drawn to
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: the three through five, just that he move our pieces around.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Not quite the the all of our basketball players are
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: six foot seven and can pass the ball kind of defense.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: But I do think that's kind of what more of
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: his vision is.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Well, like I said, we will talk a lot more
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: about this conversation here I think we said a really
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: good baseline and ground of what this means for Nebraska.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: And because I want to leave you guys with this,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I think this is very important. Identity is not what
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: you put on a graphic and what you what you
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: say it is. It's what when opponents are out there,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it's what they're preparing for.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: It's what recruits. When you're recruiting, it's what it's what
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you're recruiting for.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And then when when a game is on the line
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: and you need to stop on third and four or
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you need a first down on third and two, like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: it's what It's what your players are going to fall
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: back on and believe because that's what you've instilled in them.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: So I don't think it's something you can necessarily announce
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and put out there on a billboard and say this
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: is what Nebraska football is. You have to demonstrate it
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: until everybody else starts describing you that way and catches on.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: And you are. Your gameplay and the.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Results dictate what your identity is by by going out
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and winning football games. So it all still goes back
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: to that, and I think that that's what we're wanting
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: to see here in twenty twenty six. Real quick, I
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: know you mentioned the earlier. We do know the Halloween
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: game is the blackout game. It's Washington at home. You
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: get your tickets by Yet.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: It sounds like we may be able to give a
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: ticket to any game whenever I want this year for
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: way cheaper.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I have not bought my tickets.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I think my sign up for my basketball tickets
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: is tomorrow, so I might begin basketball tickets.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: So that's there, you go.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: That's maybe what the excitement is more for this year.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I'm I know we're talking football, but I am, well,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: JaMarcus Lars isn't coming back two volleyball scrimmage.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: We're gonna be so freaking good this year.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I know we have a really hard schedule and we're
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: not gonna go totally undefeated, and we'll probably break my
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: heart again in the you know, in the tournament. But
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I am more excited for basketball volleyball than I have
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: for football. That being said, I am excited for football.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: It's warm enough, but gosh, we're going to be so
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: freaking good for volleyball.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll let you do a little bit of a volleyball.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I'll get to it. Give us a preview.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: We've got nine days before first match. I believe ten
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: days something like that.
• 28:44
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