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The Weekly Ekeler Appreciation Podcast · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast that Sarban Nickeye, Austin Rose, Dakota
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  Speaker 1: free tag. I don't have a bowling sound to enter here,
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  Speaker 1: but might as well entert bowling ball, hitting pins and
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  Speaker 1: knocking him down, because the Huskers are going bowling for
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  Speaker 1: the second straight year here under Matt rule after beating
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  Speaker 1: Northwestern twenty eight twenty one. So let's take a little
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  Speaker 1: moment here to celebrate that.
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  Speaker 2: When it was last time I were able to go
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  Speaker 2: bowling before November.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have it pulled up to you know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was like a stat you had, like
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. It should have been last year, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't it. I think we do have to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: this a little bit and not overlook it. I know
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  Speaker 1: where we're out of the program and some people are
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  Speaker 1: wanting us to be a lot further than this, but
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  Speaker 1: to look at where we've kind of come over the
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  Speaker 1: last ten years, it's it's an accomplishment. And actually this
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  Speaker 1: year it wasn't even talked about, and Roll even said it,
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  Speaker 1: and the players said it in the locker room. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even talked about, so that in that show Signs
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  Speaker 1: of No this is the expectation as we make a
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  Speaker 1: bowl game every year, and just appreciate that we haven't
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  Speaker 1: been there the last ten years because there's obviously been
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  Speaker 1: times we haven't even been cloaks to that. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of games left this year, which is
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  Speaker 1: also a positive. But I do want that we want
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  Speaker 1: to call that out because it hadn't been talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Dak Wars bowling shirt at the tailgate this week.
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  Speaker 4: You bet that's back to back years. I've worked they
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  Speaker 4: both those games, so so I'm basically the reason why
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  Speaker 4: Nebraska at the bull game.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, well I'm glad you were there.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think that whole narrative of Nebraska football
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  Speaker 1: and where we need to get to or want to
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  Speaker 1: get to, of being a consistent playoff team or more
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  Speaker 1: than that eventually, I mean, that's the goal. This is
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  Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: coming quite as fast as some people want it to
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  Speaker 1: be or think it should be. And I do think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that is signetti in Indiana like that
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  Speaker 1: is not for Nebraska. That's everywhere around the country that
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  Speaker 1: people say, well he can do it, so we should
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  Speaker 1: be doing it, and I'm not saying that's a wrong take.
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  Speaker 1: It's's also very truth. But it does take someone a
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  Speaker 1: special coach like Signetti to do something like that with
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  Speaker 1: what Indiana is doing. But we're still progress, right, We're
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  Speaker 1: still moving there. The year three rule narrative is maybe
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  Speaker 1: not like blowing people out of proportion, right and going,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is rule three, But it's still
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  Speaker 1: so far we've seen steps in the right direction. What
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  Speaker 1: does that mean for the next four, three, four five
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  Speaker 1: years moving forward? I don't know. I mean a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things can change, obviously, as we know, so I
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  Speaker 1: think just appreciate where we're at now. That that was
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  Speaker 1: my general vibe. I'm not like, I'm not thrilled. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not like jumping for joy that this is that we're
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  Speaker 1: back and this is the best thing ever. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also not upset because obviously things could have gotten way
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  Speaker 1: worse on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, here's that. Here's a bigger part even then
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  Speaker 4: them just making a ball game and the rask is
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  Speaker 4: making a bull game. Finally winning one score.
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  Speaker 3: Games we did.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's probably the biggest thing that reals changes be
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  Speaker 4: in here. I mean, well, they want three straight one
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  Speaker 4: score games, which is which lost like fifteen straight, but
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  Speaker 4: I get I don't know the exact numbers behind it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, and another game winning drive tighter or behind
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter from data in the offense and
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  Speaker 1: Royola leading the charge, which also I agree it's important
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  Speaker 1: to call out and appreciate because we've been on the
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  Speaker 1: opposite end of that for way too long and things
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  Speaker 1: have changed. I do not think it's luck, just like
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was bad luck that we were
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  Speaker 1: losing those games. I also don't think it's good luck
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  Speaker 1: that we're winning. I think that is a it's a
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  Speaker 1: process change, it's a culture thing that has gone in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. Obviously, you want to get to the
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  Speaker 1: point where you all have to be in those games
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  Speaker 1: and that you take a team and beat them so
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  Speaker 1: you're not in a one score game, which we have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities to do. And that's where some of the
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  Speaker 1: frustrations I think have came in this game. In some
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  Speaker 1: of these other one score games, we've had the chance
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  Speaker 1: to barry. We haven't done that yet, but it is
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  Speaker 1: as a step in the right direction. It is, and
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  Speaker 1: we're on the right side of it. But yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: roller coaster continues. That was my note. Roller coaster just continues.
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  Speaker 2: I say, I hope you guys still put money on Northwestern.
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  Speaker 2: We lost to the spread again.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's been like, not just to this
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  Speaker 2: year thing. I don't know about you, but it feels
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  Speaker 2: like we always the spread. We've got to be the
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  Speaker 2: worst team to bet on. We bet against.
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  Speaker 4: Cover the spread spread once this year yet, I mean, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, But other than that, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the spreads influenced by money, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: is knowing our fan base and what we do. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: our spread is always going to be I think inflated
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  Speaker 1: a couple of points because Nebraska fans probably put across
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  Speaker 1: the country, probably put a little more juice and faith
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  Speaker 1: in to their own team than other teams. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly the numbers of stats behind that, but I
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  Speaker 1: think that probably is a little bit of that reason.
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  Speaker 1: And it was half a point more this week.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was a good game, I guess general
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  Speaker 2: overall thoughts, I'm wondering if you guys feel the same.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't feel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, because it wasn't one of those games
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  Speaker 2: where I didn't feel great about us really at any point,
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  Speaker 2: but I also didn't feel bad about us at any point.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm a man after that game, like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's kind of where I'm at too.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely think it was a holding on that last
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  Speaker 2: call that wasn't passive appearance that.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk about the refs here, Dak,
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  Speaker 1: how how do you feel about the game? Because I
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  Speaker 1: know how you fell initially after. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: you remember how you felt, but how did you I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: a I'm like a man like that, And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's because of the expectations of where things
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  Speaker 1: we think should be, but it just it was. It's
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  Speaker 1: a win, and we have to That's why I started
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  Speaker 1: off trying to be positive and appreciate a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the good things of where the program is going. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, there's still so many things to
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  Speaker 1: nitpick and talk about. I think just because we're expecting more,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't think is a bad thing as a
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  Speaker 1: fan base. I don't think it's a bad thing by
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  Speaker 1: any means, But Dak, how how did you? How did you?
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  Speaker 1: How'd you feel?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? I after the game, I was a little bit
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  Speaker 4: too jacked up.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was pomped about how they play. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you guys, looking back on it, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of a man for me too, Like it's
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  Speaker 4: nothing spectacular, but.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, hold your ground to the jacked up phase
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  Speaker 1: of it. You don't know you want.
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  Speaker 4: You were, Let me go drink twenty five ninety lights
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  Speaker 4: and then I'll be jacked up about it. Yeah, I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't like the best win. What I what I
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  Speaker 4: was saying at Tilgate basically was how many years are
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  Speaker 4: people people aren't even happy just about a win anymore.
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  Speaker 3: It's how you win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's how you win. And yeah, I'm a man
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  Speaker 4: because I don't.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the greatest win ever. But a win's a win,
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  Speaker 4: and that's that's all that really matters right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that you mean anythink you just copied with Austin.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I was hoping you brought the angle of like,
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  Speaker 1: no be excited about a win, because I do think
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  Speaker 1: there's part of that that's that's missing but from the
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  Speaker 1: fan base, and and I do think fans that can
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that are probably in a better like they they're
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  Speaker 1: enjoying it more because because they aren't critiquing or or
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  Speaker 1: finding the negative side of things. So I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping you'd stay there, but like you always do,
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  Speaker 1: just copy what we say.
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  Speaker 4: It was really jacky. It's like they won the Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl or like the Cultural Playoff.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're pretty fired up.
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  Speaker 4: I was pumped.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's a it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: outcome or product of this season, the way it's gone
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  Speaker 1: so far, of just being a roller coaster and the
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  Speaker 1: good and the bad. I also think that it's important
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind that's not just Nebraska. That's college football
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  Speaker 1: in general now and you're seeing just scores. And my
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  Speaker 1: brother kind of reminded me of that this week too.
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  Speaker 1: It's like good teams play really bad, and bad teams
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  Speaker 1: can play good, and scores can look crazy, and from
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  Speaker 1: one week to the next, from one quarter to the next,
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  Speaker 1: like it's happening a lot. And that's just the nature
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  Speaker 1: of football in general, not just in college, but in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL too. I mean, I think yesterday the Dolphins,
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  Speaker 1: who have just played like absolute dog shit the last
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  Speaker 1: four or five weeks, go out and kill the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: at in Atlanta like it. It's a product a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the sport when you do have very evenly
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  Speaker 1: matched talent or product on the field, that you see
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  Speaker 1: some high variation in scores, and a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: does come then down the culture and motivation and getting
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  Speaker 1: up for games, and we obviously didn't do that last week,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not acceptable by any means. But it's also
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  Speaker 1: not Man, we're just horrible, and this program's in a
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  Speaker 1: bad spot where we lose this game against Northwestern, my
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  Speaker 1: mind would have went there because then I would have
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  Speaker 1: thought the locker room has been lost. And now we've
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  Speaker 1: kind of seen a little pattern, which is what happened,
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  Speaker 1: what has happened to Penn State, right I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: that you can see is what's happened. That's what happened
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  Speaker 1: at Florida, That's what's happened to LSU. Some programs that
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously have been a lot better than us
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  Speaker 1: in the past, but are playing now down to their
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  Speaker 1: competition and losing games as well. So it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a college football thing right now, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a good reminder as we finish out
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  Speaker 1: the year against probably four at least three of our
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  Speaker 1: tougher opponents that we've played all year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's good to go bowling. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: all I had to say. It feel it felt good.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I do want to call this out given all
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  Speaker 1: the conversation we've had about the future of rule and
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: here at Nebraska. Yeah, you do expect to win. I
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  Speaker 1: would say at least two of these games. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you'd want to show us moving forward. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, going seven and five, it's just going to
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  Speaker 1: feel it's not gonna feel like a good step given
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  Speaker 1: our schedule, and obviously it's implying maybe we beat UCLA
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  Speaker 1: and lose USC Penn State and Iowa. Right, you you'd
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  Speaker 1: want to win at least two of those, if not
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  Speaker 1: three of those, to say, oh, rules the guy. We
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  Speaker 1: want here for the future, to make our step forward
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  Speaker 1: in the progress. I think that's what we want to see.
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  Speaker 1: Some people might even go four or four if you want,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to go there. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be favorites in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these games, so there's not going to be the pressure
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  Speaker 1: of being a seven point favorite to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of can play the little bit of the
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  Speaker 1: underdog mentality, but these games are going to be tougher.
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  Speaker 1: But I think for the program to take the step forward,
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  Speaker 1: we want to win them. Like it's not it's not
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  Speaker 1: not we're okay going six and six and seven and five,
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  Speaker 1: and that's progress, right, that's my worst fear. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: storry having nightmares on it is us going in seven
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  Speaker 1: and five and he maybe even eight and four and
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  Speaker 1: everybody going we won one more game than last year.
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  Speaker 1: That's progress and we're moving in the right direction. I'm
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  Speaker 1: like and be satisfied with it. As a program. The
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: schedule was easy this year. It still is like that
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  Speaker 1: that we can't be okay with that. I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's a little bit red yellow flaggy for me for
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  Speaker 1: the future if that happens now.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows.
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  Speaker 1: We could lose all four, we could win all four.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the way the season's gonna go.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, eight and four, you feel two wins is
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  Speaker 3: a pretty decent jump.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay, I feel better. I'm not jumped ahead over
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  Speaker 1: heels for saying, man, we need to keep rule here,
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  Speaker 1: and he like, I'm not going that way now. Nine
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  Speaker 1: ten and two, I get a little more excited about
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  Speaker 1: rule being the future here. If that's what's happening, that's
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: all gonna be up in here still to and the
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: drama heading into Penn State and all it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I will add that Brian Kelly gave fire and LSU
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  Speaker 2: is also fit. Definitely not good for us as far
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  Speaker 2: as if if if we were to go ten and
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  Speaker 2: two or even better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's's more jobs opening.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, and it seems it seems like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: talk about national picture. It seems like coaches even even
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years got fore like coaches had shortly
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  Speaker 4: if it was even shorter now with all of this,
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  Speaker 4: with all the nil transpport and all that, Like, you
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  Speaker 4: guys turn your program around and keep it steady there
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  Speaker 4: for a while.
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  Speaker 1: But we guys all be honest, we go if we go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not we have no reason to think this. But
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  Speaker 1: if the tops fall off and we finished the year
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  Speaker 1: losing four games in a row, I definitely I will
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  Speaker 1: definitely be calling for rules head. I don't think it'll
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  Speaker 1: be the only one. I'm not saying that will happen,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that you think about where that where
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  Speaker 1: will where will be at if that happens. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to be a good state of mind,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think. But so, yeah, there's a lot that's
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: gonna happen here. I think for the season. I mut's
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: talk more about this game here and dive into Northwestern
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  Speaker 1: and there's there's some key things points I want to mention.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stay on the positive side. Mike Eckler. I think
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: we just need to start doing a weekly appreciation for
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the job that he's done, and keep in mind what
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: it has been before he got here, special teams with
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: several different coordinator coaches, and you know, I don't we
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: don't know the inside announced how to coach football in general,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: but special teams specifically, and Mike Eckler clearly does to
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  Speaker 1: a very very superior extent. So I'm still petitioning for
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  Speaker 1: him to be our next head coach. If something were
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: to happen to rule, I just think he'd be tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you see I saw the video
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  Speaker 1: of him going nuts after the kickoff return touch Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really even had to tell him to calm down, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's great for to bring that kind of energy and
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  Speaker 1: passion to I'm gonna call it the boring part part
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  Speaker 1: of football, but to make it mean so much to
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  Speaker 1: the team, the players, it's it's winning as football games,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: like truly winning as football games. And it's not just
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: on kickoff return it's been I mean, Archie Wilson had
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: an average fifty seven yards of punt. The one thing
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: that would have topped that up is if he could
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: have got that one to check up at the three
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  Speaker 1: yard line. Had two punts and one was a bomb.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: We did miss a field goal, keep that in mind.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: That didn't great, but it just from an overall special
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  Speaker 1: team standpoint, appreciate the guy. And again I'm if anything
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  Speaker 1: happens the rule or if things go south, like give
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: me Mike Eckler, we don't. We're not gonna pay the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: guy either, like a huge, huge salary. And I think
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: a guy like that, blue collar, preaches energy, passion like
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  Speaker 1: I think he'd be great. I just again appreciate him
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: being here. He's the one guy I put some blind
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  Speaker 1: faith into and so far it's been paying off greatly
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: for the program.
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  Speaker 2: That So I did watch the game on tape delay,
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  Speaker 2: I felt, you know, I don't know if that makes
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: me be an old person, because I'm totally fine doing
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  Speaker 2: that now.
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  Speaker 1: But when you do that, do you have zero idea
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  Speaker 1: of the game out there?
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  Speaker 2: So I did. I try to have zero idea. The
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: reason I did it was because I was stayed in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: my fence. I had no idea what the score was.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Four o'clock. I had to go and get paint thinner
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: at the hardware store, and I walk up to the
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: count and the guys that was hell of a game
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: by the boys today, was like, damn it. I mean,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: it's so pretty close. I was just I was cleaning
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: up and then I was gonna watch the game. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: didn't even ask him. I wasn't wearing any Husker gear
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: or anything. Of course it's a freaking hardware store, but
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I did. I rewatched the kickoff return twice after it
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: happened because I was like, man, it was just it
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: was so pretty.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: It was great play.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know why he doesn't why a lot of Williams,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: no Kenneth Williams, there we go. I don't know why
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it doesn't play any other time, the kickoff return.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: So that got talked about a little bit after the game.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: On when I was driving home. He's not a very
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: big dude, get the wrong He's got a role, He's
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: got a defined, specific roles. I don't know if you
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: want to mess with that right now anywhere else. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: think he's I think there's sometimes guys like that that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: do your job, do it really really well, get really
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: good at it, and continue to get really good at it,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and you don't want to add another thing to their
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: plate quite yet. Now maybe that's something in the future
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you definitely can do. But I agree, he's so fast,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: he's so fast.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he just barely got missed getting tackled like four times.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: It was just right at the heels, like he was
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: inches from being tackled four different times. It was great,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you're right, I you know, our Lord Savior, Archie Wilson
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and Mike Eckler best unit of the team.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: We were just talking about asking that he turned around
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: the Indiana program, like what Eckler's done, And I mean,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Nebraska is one of the worst special teams in the
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: country and coming into the year and just flipping around
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: like in one season. Now now it's easily the best
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: unit on the team. Like it's Yeah, appreciation posts there
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: you go. Happy for you, Mike Keckler, happy for you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You know, get that, get it. Get us some good
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: graphics out there on social media for a Mike Echler
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: weekly appreciation post.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I'll make one.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I'll make one.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, offensive defense, we're gonna want to start.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Let's start defense, man, Like I think, Okay, things were
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: better at times.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Our tackling still wasn't great by any means. It was better,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: but it was I thought we were a little more aggressive,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: which helped. I also don't think Preston Stone's a great
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: quarterback compared to I mean, even some of the guys
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: we haven't played great great quarterback, but definitely is probably
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: one of the worst I think. I mean, he missed
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of throws. Yeah, sure that could have been open.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The running game was stopped most of the time, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: then one blown assignment again on a different type of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: run where all of a sudden running back bounces and goes,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, there's nothing but green grass and no
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: one to be found, and they score a touchdown there
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: in the second half. I just it's okay, like you,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you wish it'd be better. It was enough to win
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the game, so that's that's progress. You know, we got
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to stop on their last possession, which was good. Our
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: DB's got beat a couple of times, specifically the last play,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and then you know, just just tackle the guy that's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: okay before the ball gets there. We're good. So yeah,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: that's that's overall how I felt defensively this game. Good
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: enough to get a win, but obviously still a lot
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of things to work on.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: One so Malcolm Hart talks out for the year, not the.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: End of the world, but definitely doesn't help.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: It doesn't help. Is Marquis buff Is he bad? Now?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's been like he doesn't even make
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the he's not starting. That's been eye opening. Yeah, there's been.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: There's been some guys that just just have moved around.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I guess on the defensive side that you're like, oh,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: well that's interesting.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yep, But yeah, you're you're right. It was a very
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: mad performance. We didn't get really any pressure on the quarterback.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Then press the stone definitely missed some open throws. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: was like, well, if you hit, that's.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Scary heading into USC week, that for me, that's like.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because because they won't they won't miss those throws.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: No, they should have missed those throws anyways.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean it's still only twenty one points
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: giving up It's.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was it was okay.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Performance it wasn't Yeah, it wasn't it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: I just don't know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: This would be like like the fifth game this year
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: where you walk out of the game not knowing how
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: to feel about it. I don't know about you, guys.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I know what to feel about it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: My feeling is just like I said, it's man, my feeling. Yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I want to feel about it. It's I have my
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: feelings about it. It's not like I've been I'm like,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: what do I feel after this game? It just is
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: very okay, it's very average yep. And that that. Here's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: another concerning part in it. It's on the offensive side too,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and it does it goes back to interior offensive linemen
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: on both ends, short yardage situation on defense. I mean,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Northwestern had three QB sneaks I think, and converted them
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: all like very easily. Not not like not push pushes.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I'm talking like third and two's where we we just
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we aren't we aren't lined upright or something, and they
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: identified Okay, well we'll just sneak it for three yards
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: because there's nobody like press and stones like oh there's
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a hole, like catch it and go, snap it and go.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: So like that is if it's not it's not good
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: because those are there's a lot of those that come
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: throughout the ebbs and flow of a game. So I
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: think that needs to get better. But I think we
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: also know that's a weakness of our team, is the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: interior defensive lineman. It's it's not great, and that tells
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you how important Nash and Tie were and we've said
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that over and over and over. We don't have that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: this year. So how can we schematically adjust to that?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: If we want to adjust to that? Right on thirty
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and two, maybe we don't want nine guys in the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: box or eight guys in the box and give up
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: a play action forty yard bomb, Like to me, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: would want Preston Stone taking that chance of doing that
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: versus I'm just being able to sneak it right up
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the gut for three arms, which they did more than once.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: So that that that my general thoughts on defense again, and.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: It's yeah, it just feels like USC is going to
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: be able to take care of or take advantage of
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: the place. We're talking about that Northwest missed a lot
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: better this week, so that's.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I'll be curious about that too, because I don't think.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched US so much yet. But I don't
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: know if Jane Miyaba is getting under center and running
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a quarterback snak. No, I can't imagine that Lincoln Riley
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: is doing that with him. Maybe they are, so it
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: is going to look different. They're that concern like that
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: that is, but I is going to do that, He's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: going to do that. I don't know the USC was
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: so that. Yeah, the passing is going to be the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: interesting part where I do think. I still think we
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: match up better with a team that I'm not gonna
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: call USC not physical, but that's not their type of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: style as much as Northwestern Minnesota. I think we maybe
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: match up a little better us not being as strong
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in the trenches, and I'll say it not as physical
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: as they probably want our team to be.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: So do you think our best defensive player is Everyone
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: says it's sire, right, but like the amount of times
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: he's been getting targeted and then he's also getting a
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: lot of pis It's like, well, yeah, he's good.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: But.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know Singleton, like, yeah, I think
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Singleton leaves some tackles. It's just it's it's I don't know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and that's probably that's probably that's probably
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: part of the problem. Right. It's again, it's not a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: bad unit. We're not a horrible defense.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But do you just stop struggle to get to stop?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: We've taken too many steps back, I guess from last
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: year is the problem.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you expected that though with Tony White being gone, like,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: did we.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I yeah, I would say so.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I would say a lot of didn't think that. I mean,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of Nebraska fans thought it'd be
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the same. Or I mean, I think guys lea that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: just goes to the kool aid and the people that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: have high expectations, like I mean, maybe we did, but
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I just think the general general Nebraska fans I call
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: our defense. I know, we go back to rankings a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: lot or I do call it a seven out of ten.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Last year I was saying we need to we will
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: probably fall off, but better not fall off more than
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a six. Like I feel like we're down at a
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: four right now or four or five it's not quite
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the level that we think it should be at anything
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: else defensive side.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: It'd be nice to get more pressure. It's a lot
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: of one.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yep. I don't know how we do that. I think
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we've said that every week. We did force two turnovers finally, Yeah,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: but the one was I wouldn't say forced.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: One was force is a strong word.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: One was which I would say we you can cancel
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: those two out. Dylan's pick and Preston stones pig almost
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: for identical where they just neither one of them saw
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the middle linebacker and they just threw it right to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: his gut. So but but the other one was a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: play made on the ball line of scrimmage or deflection
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and then a pick, So that was that was encouraging there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's funny. I do think to the turnover
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: point not to go on right here, but general people
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: like just look at that number and they go, oh,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: we forced two turnovers, like you're right us. And it's
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a difference between forcing and giving like sometimes people just
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: give you the ball. It's not a forced turnover, like
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: it's keep that take that for a grain of salt.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And I think it was even real set about data
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and when Dana came in, one of the stats that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: he looks at is not the turnover differential, but it's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: points off turnovers, which, thinking from my coach's perspective, it's
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: very smart because it's great to get a turnover or
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: but if you actually score off of it and capitalize
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: off it is what you need. If you just give
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the ball right back to him after a turnover, it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: means nothing vice versa. If you if you turn it over,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: but then your defense holds them, you can kind of okay,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: well you stop them. I gave it to their possession,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: but you didn't let them take advantage of it. So
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I did like that thought there, uh okay, offense. And
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna briefly mention the short yarde discussion and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the concerns as we did that on defense continues to
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: be an issue when we get in on third and short,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: fourth and short, like, I don't think we exactly know
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: what we're doing yet. I don't we don't know what works.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: We've tried the toush push with Heine, the Heinie push,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and gosh, I I I still don't know if we
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: got that first down, but we got it. They gave
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it to us. You know Dylan's fourth and one that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the play call was for him to roll out. You know,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the edge didn't get set, had to improvise, fump, you know,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the fumbles whatever, fourth down.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Like, honestly, the tumble is probably for the better.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're not gonna get it, it's like, well, yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: it at least attracted a couple of yards.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I just.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: We don't. We don't, and that goes to a lack
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of I think trust in physically running it up the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: gut and having a player that can do that. Emmett,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Emmett's get the Emmett here in a second. He's not
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: really a great go get me a yard back because
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: he's it's not how he's built. We have not tried
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: or we must not think that Quinn ives is that guy.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Kind of maybe is what we thought going into the year.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a it's a concern because
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of how many times it happens in the game and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: we just still aren't good at it, and it comes
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: from a lack of an offensive line a little bit.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: But I don't know the answer to that and just
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: calling that out as a boy, what are we what
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: are we gonna do moving forward?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: That's where I'm thinking Williams maybe he's I don't know.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: He's not a he, but he's not a It depends
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: what you want, right I Ideally I think in any
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and for me and football, you want to be able
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to line up eleven v. Eleven and go get a
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: yard like running the ball.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: It's because I do feel like when we run the
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: ball we get decent We did did decent gaps on
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the line, like I actually do think a run blocking
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: is pretty good.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: But when it comes to when they know we're going
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: to run it correct.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: On downs where it's very obvious, that's that's like you're
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: trying to run the ball. So because we can't do
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that on very obvious short downs, we then are trying.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: We do have tried to get creative on doing it,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and we haven't figured out what that creative way is yet. Yeah,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: part of that too is not having a running quarterback
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: in you add that that's another element in a short
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: down in yardage that you have to defend, which Dylan's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: not And I voiced my concern last week about that
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that's another thing that you don't You don't have that
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: option to do. I don't, I don't know. I don't
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: know what the answer is, I full back. I don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: know whose po plays full pack. Throw a fullback in
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: there and have the ability to run a trap or
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a full back dive. Add that, I don't know what
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the other option is. One another option is that it's.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Concerning that That was the thing I was gonna say.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: It's full back dives is one. That's one of my
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: favorite calls. There are fourth and one now, But like
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: you said, I didn't even know if there was a
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: fullback on the roster, Like, who would it be?
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I don't I mean.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Bonner was the fullback when he's out for the year.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, con that position. Maybe you may be a tight
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: end type of harboring. Yeah, I don't know nothing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go on the little ring here, but nothing
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: pitched me off. Warren Football then went fourth and one
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: and your team guns out in the shotgun. That is
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: my least favorite playing all football. It makes no sense
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: to me.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: That's why the only way that I could maybe justify
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: as if it's harbor like, yeah, so where if we
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: do some like wildcat type power, Tim Tebow, whatever you
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: want to call it, stuff, which that maybe is an option.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I still don't like being in
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the shotgun out of it, Like it's not ideal.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: No, you you just have to get a yard. I
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I would think fullback dive of it, like that's that's
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: my favorite option.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: But that's the problem is can we do that? That's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: what that's Yeah, that's a night. I mean we we
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: We've obviously tried it, you know, are are we just
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: willing to say let's do that on fourth and one
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: every time and if we don't get it, we go out. Well,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: at least we tried it. Like, I think that's where
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the coaches are a little bit struggling right now, is
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: we have kind of tried that a couple of times
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and have gotten stopped. So now what are where do
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: we go to next?
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: So?
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, Emma Johnson, as we were talking about running backs,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the guy's pretty incredible. Guys, we said that last few years, Yeah,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and we got to just keep giving him the ball
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: as much as we can. And I mean you literally
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: use every ounce of him that we can while he's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you know, while he's healthy, he's he looks kind of
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: he's gonna round a gas potentially at points and games
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: points in the season. I just think you got to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: keep pushing that limit. I know some people are calling for,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you know, practice this week obviously to rest, and I
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: think that's okay to a certain extent. I don't think
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you want to start a standard of all right, well,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Emmitt's done it all for us, He's just gonna sit
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: and watch this whole week. Like, I don't think we
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: want to do that. But I also think that in
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: games he I mean, he had twenty seven carries today
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: or this week. You just got to keep giving him.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: He literally he's a workhorse back. He showed that he's
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: able to do it. I mean what I what I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: really impressed with is his which we know he's good
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: at his agility, but his ability to explode and like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: some guys when they when they make cuts or make
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: moves like it takes them another half a second to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: get going again, like Emmett's very good at changing direction
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and accelerating right away and getting an extra couple of yards.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I mean it just yeah, definitely game ball goes to
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: him this week, I think, no question again, and he's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: had obviously a couple of games like that. Now where
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: we do we just have to keep relying on him
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to get our offense going.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: He's really freaking good, best player on the.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: Team, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, especially when he can do
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: in the passing game too, like that he doesn't get
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: used a ton, but given the passing game he gets
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: le does get used.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: It seem like it's always a positive play.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Him and Isaiah Hunter is definitely kind of starting to
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: separate himself as the best receiving target.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I think, which which is what you just said.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I yeah, I think the top to an offense are
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: pretty sentence stone by now, which which I don't know
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: about you guys. It's it's kind of surprising how much
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Barney does not get used as much as I thought
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: going into the year.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, he just they give him those tiny, short,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: little passes and it just gets.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Blown up every time.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't think.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: He's gotten his just his ship rocked.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: It goes down so easy to still you know, Yeah, I.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Guess might I was gonna say, I guess.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Overall offensive thoughts, I don't really feel like we did
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: anything that differently than last week. I just we obviously
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: didn't get all the sacks as we did last week,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: but I don't know as far as a game plan,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't feel like we did anything play calling wise
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: that I was like.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow, that's a new fold. Well that's different.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: So some of the other recap podcasts media are making
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: a bigger, a big deal about the number of russ
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: rushing to passing play calls, and yeah, that leads to
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the kind of discussion of our identity. And I do
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: think awesome that you talked about the difference gamescript matters
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of how the game's going, right when you're losing to Minnesota,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: you're going now, And Dana mentioned that like that, there's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a there's a sense of that, so keep that in
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: mind when we're talking about this. And at the same time,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I heard someone else talk about bo Polani where they asked, well,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: what is your identity? And both said what would always
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: say what you're whatever the defense gives you, like that
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: was his answer. Okay, So there's an element of and
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: we've had the identity conversation, there's an element of we
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: don't we're literally tailoring everything that we believe into the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: other team's scheme, everything to the to the t going
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and that we're putting in new stuff every brand new
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: stuff every week because that's what we're doing. There's the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: flip side of that, where we don't care at all
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: about the other team and we're not even gonna watch
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: film and we don't care what they're going to do,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and what we're gonna do is do what we know
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: how because this is what we believe and this is
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: our this is our identity. I would Nebraska back in
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the day leaned a lot more towards that because they
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: were able to. And then obviously, the better team you have,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the more you can do that. The worst team you
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: have goes the other way, where you can't just roll out.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: If you're a really bad basketball team, you can't just
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: roll out and say we're gonna come out and full
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: court press and get a bunch of steals. If you don't,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: if you don't have the players to do that, you're
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: not gonna do that. If you're if you're one in
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: twenty like, you're not going to do that. That's not
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: that's not you're not able to. But if you're better
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: than them, you can. So there's an element, there's a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: fine line in there of deciding what, no, we're going
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to do this because this is what we believe in
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: versus note, we're tailoring all of this to the other team.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: And so I guess, Dak, I'll start with you. I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: know you have to go here in a couple of minutes.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: What would you say Nebraska's identity is on offense.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: The run first team by quite a bit, because I
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: think the on line has a lot to that too.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: It why do you say that? See two weeks ago,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: what would you.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Have said past first team?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Probably? Yeah, I mean are you are you you think
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: we're a run first team.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Right right now at the moment, yes, I mean coming
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: off a game where em Johnson's had twenty eight runs
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: for I don't even know how many hours hunted into something,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: how many players. I just think the offensive line the
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: rasket cannot be a past first team just because it's
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: that bad. As we're past blocking, I don't think it's
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: possible to be past first team.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I would say we were in Cincinnati and that's our
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: best win of the year.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but they only put up seventeen points nicking,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: So it wasn't like in the spectacular.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Joey wants Achron shorts sixty nine points.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Well, well, we could have still done.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: That I'm trying to help you argue with me or not.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: I know, I know now I'm thinking at the moment
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: right now, they are run first team. Coming in the season,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: they want to be a past first team, But right now,
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: at this moment, they are run first.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Which is which is? Which is?
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: I think the team set up the best.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, Austin, what.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Do you think? I think we're pretty well balanced. I
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: think we are kind of what what they give us.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I think we I think we want to be a
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: past first team and it hasn't worked out for us,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: so we've been forced into the last week or so,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: we didn't run first team.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Dak, you can get out of here whenever. By the way,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you got to go.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, I I got I got a meeting.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: It's big, it's you know what. I'm not gonna start
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: about linkon traffic. It sucks in the morning. It's whatever.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: I'll see you guys.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Uh, you've ready more on that, Austin.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: No, that's what I do.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Think we want to be a past I think Dana
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: wants to be a pass first team, but our offensive
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: line are run blocking is better, and we've kind of
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: been forced into a run first team.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: But we're pretty much balanced.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Why why do you why do you think Dana wants
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: to be a pass first team because I.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Think this is what he's comfortable with.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's where his brain goes when he's
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: when he's drawn up plays.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: That's what excites him, is the.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: The downfield, across the route, the that's just where he
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: came from.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I and we haven't talked about identity much this year.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it a lot previous years. And what
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: both of you guys said is why this topic is
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: so intriguing to me. I do think right now we're
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a run first team, or we were this last game,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: and we've been we were after the loss of Minnesota.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: We were forced to shift to that mindset because of
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the lack of success we've had trying to be a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: past first team before that. And I think that is
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: what's concerning a little bit from a program philosophy, big
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: picture standpoint on how the season's gone and why Minnesota
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: happened the way it did was because we got away
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: from the run first mentality. And I know you're saying
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: we're more balanced, and I think that probably is pretty true,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: but it did if you would ask anybody going into Minnesota,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: people would say we were past first, and that I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: think think it was the concern and why it is
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: upset and frustrated people so much the way the Minnesota
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: went because Will preached the first couple of years or
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: his for you know, he preached Big ten football. We
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: gotta be a run first team. We got established the
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: run set the past. We gotta be physical up front,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: we gotta all this stuff to play like I we
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: gotta be like Ay, we gotta be like Minnesota. And
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: then this year, for whatever reason, we've started to go
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: away from that. And you said it, I think Dana's
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: a big reason of it, because I agree deep Dana's
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Dana's comfortable and enjoys the passing side of football more
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: than the what he would probably call boring physical football.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: It's sad that it took a loss to Minnesota to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: actually realize that, but we did. It was overshadowed because
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: we won Michigan State, we won Maryland, we won Cincinnati
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: by doing what's quote unquote working in Dana's off. That
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to me is a concern a little bit like it's
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: a lack that what is the belief like I think
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: rule kind of wants to be more pound the rock,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: but I think he also is very easily influenced by
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: someone like Dana, who I like. That's that's the scary part.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: That's the concern. It took.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: It took a loss like that for us to realize, oh,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: we better go back to our roots and and pound
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the rock. I'll be curious what we continue to do.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Like obviously it worked and we won the game again,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's still concerning for the future,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: like what do we actually believe in what we want
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to do and if we do that, what does that
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: imply or mean for our team and our personnel Because
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: you take our personnel wise skill players. That's why I
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: think Dana wanted to go but we didn't have the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: offensive line to do it. And if you don't an
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: offensive line, you can't do jack shit. But if you're
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: not you can't run the ball and pound the rock
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: and control time possession and all that, you're not gonna
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: be able to do anything anyways. So I think that's
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: where we're at now.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, our offense is fine, like it's okay, like
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: we've scored, it's you look at the points.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: That's like twenty eight, and then we had the terrible
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: game as mimisso six and then thirty four, thirty eight,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: twenty seven. You know, like if you were telling me
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: that we were gonna be averaging twenty seven points a game,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, Taylor were averaging more than twenty seven points
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: a game.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Because of those, Yeah, we obviously had some bad offense
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: We know that last year we couldn't even get above twenty.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: We lost, like we held all our opponents under twenty
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: points that we've lost, you know.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Six games, So it's tough to be super upset about
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: the offense.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I'll I'll be curious is how we finished the year
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: against some better opponents that I think to win those games,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to play a lot more vanilla conservative
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: with an occasional twist in there. Like Dylan's numbers going
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: after the first whatever three four games. Everybody's like, he's
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: going to average three hundred plus passing yards a game,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna throw it fifty t you know, because
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: that's what we are kind of looking like we were doing.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: And you know, we joke we're throwing it forty times
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: a game. But those first you know, five games, and.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: We obviously got hit in our mouth Minnesota, and you
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: know this week was I think Dylan threw for one
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty ninety yards and the style was, no,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: We're going to give him at the ball and let
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Dylan convert when he needs to. And his last drive
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: was a thing of beauty. That to me needs to
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: be our style going into these games. But I'm not
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: convinced that we're gonna do that necessarily because now we
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: wont so I hope it doesn't take another loss for
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: us to go. We just have to establish the rock
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and run game and like, hopefully this is enough sign
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: to go Nope, keep giving him at the ball and
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: hopefully if Emmitt gets hurt, that was really bad. Not
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: hopefully that it gets hurt, but if Emmitt does get hurt,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: I hope we don't go away from Well, now we
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: don't have MT, so now we got to go back
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: to just slinging it fifty times a game. Em It's
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: obviously a big, big, big, big reason why our run
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: game is very very good, But I don't know what
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: that's we needed disabandon it if we don't have him.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: So anyways, identity talk I think was important here to
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: come up as we head into our last four games.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: In the last four games are definitely I mean, I
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: don't know where we feel about UCLA in general, but
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: it feels like the four toughest games of the year they.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Will be Yep, I think they will be in and
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: they should be. And looking at I pulled up next
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: year's schedule and we're in for a we're in for
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: a different kind of year, and I think this year's
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: our our opportunity to make a statement with a schedule
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: that has been so far pretty fam bowl to go in.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: You know, we can beat a USC, Iowa and and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: we said Minnesota's maybe in that tier too, Like, no,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: we're we're there, We're there, we can beat these teams.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: We're a tier below them. We haven't been. Minnesota showed
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: that we're not yet. I wouldn't put Northwestern in that tier.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't put Michigan, Sateer, Maryland in that tier. So
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: these four years are probably new. CLA might not be,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: but three of the four teams are in that tier.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Usually I don't know, they've looked good. But yeah, that's
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: funny you throw up next year's schedule. I was like,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I mean that could very well be the reason, you know,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: could definitely be like, well this is as good it's
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: gonna get here, cash it now because next year it's
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, take take out being in the fan at all
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: and from a pure business decision for Matt Ruhle, finish
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: this year out strong, try to get you know, nine
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: or ten wins. Try somewhere else because you're turned another
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: program around. I mean, if you're a business guy, being.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Players that you already have, you know, you take those
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: guys with you. Yeah, you get paid, you've you've done
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: the year three mat rule thing, and then you leave.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Then is that maybe a coward way of not taking
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: on a challenge and and not taking an yes, but
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: from an again purely business decision of risk reward, get
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: paid more money, which is the wrong way to look
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: at it, by the way, like as coaches, you hope
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: and none of the coaches are thinking that, but it
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: is unfortunately that's the world we live in. Yeah, that
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: would that would be a smart move. But okay, last
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: quick thing and I'm not going to go because we
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: could talk fifteen minutes about this. Officials, we have not
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: had our annual official talk yet I don't think some
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: pretty bad calls both ways, and I've even heard maybe
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: even more calls that favored US, which and bias Nebraska
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: fans are going to go no, no way. Well no,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: there were some very bad calls the other way, and
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: I think we got a lot of favorable spots. I
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: thought in the game too, I was like, man, I
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: don't think we got that, but we're crossed by yard area.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: I'll move it. So I happened.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: I think that, Yeah, they also have one of those two.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it just it was not good. I heard Troy
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Dannon was very, very very upset. Matt said the rules
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: that he had to hold hold Troy back on the
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: possession catch, which I don't have a clue, I but
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: my only that was the one call that went against
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: us that I was like, I don't understand at all
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: how that couldn't go in our favor. The only justification
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I first thought was it could have been a rule
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: thing I didn't know understand, but I don't think it
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: was that. After rewatching it, the line on the TV
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: was not where the sticks were correct. As I looked
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: at it closer, and where the sticks were was very
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: very close to where he ended up having possession. He
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: looked at the still frame of it. However, they still
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: marked the ball at the twenty five after the review.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: If they would have marked it back at the twenty
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: seven and twenty seven and a half for twenty six
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: and a half, they would have marked it there and
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: gave him the first time. I would have been like, okay, yep,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Like they probably didn't have enough evidence to say it
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: was short of the sticks because you look at the
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: sticks there. I mean, it's in between the twenty six
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: and the twenty seven. The line was marked on the
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: almost twenty five on the TV, so that was my
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: only explanation I probably had. But then they marked it
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: on the twenty five. I'm like, there's no way the
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: ball was on the twenty five.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: We watched the replay of him bobbling it and then
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: coming back. Yes, I agree the first down, I was like, yeah, okay,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: like that's you know, we should have stopped him before that.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I think it could have gone either way. Yes, But
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: then also except that holding on the last call that
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: we should have definitely got called on.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: Yep. Man, I'm not gonna complain about the rest.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Was that Andrew Marshall all right, I think yes, it
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: was like it seriously looked like he was trying to
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: hold him because he knew he got beats. Like it
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: was one of those like oh crap, I'm beat. I
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: gotta grab on and get a flag. Otherwise the touchdown
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: and they didn't even.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Call it because it wasn't a past interference. I do
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: agree with that call, like it was already past him.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely upholding. You know, I am pro to admit, like, yeah,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: we got away with one there. I don't know, like
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: I said, we benefited. They were bad both ways.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: So it was it was just the first game we've
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: had inconsistent or I guess, consistently bad officiating.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: There haven't been any other games where it's like, oh,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: that's a bad call, right, there are a couple on
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: both sides.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Like that's a bad call.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, p I's spots just yeah, yeah I didn't.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I didn't even I didn't recognize the head official that
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: much either from other Big ten games. But guess what,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I guess we were both five and two. But when
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: you have the eleven AM game on on, sometimes what
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: happens you don't you don't get the best of the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: best a team. All right, well it is officially USC week.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: It's I'll just say this. Winning this game made this
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: week a lot more intriguing and enjoyable.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: You lose this game, it takes the pressure. It shouldn't.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: It takes the pressure off because it is still tops
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: on five team and you can't I gotta shake that
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: monkey too.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: But things would have spiraled down in a really really
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: bad way if we lost to Northwestern we didn't. I mean,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, from a fan point in everything, everybody would
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: have just been and done, like over this season all really,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: and there would have been very little juice for this
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday night game, which has been hyped up,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: you know obviously with a blackout and it being the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: night after Halloween, first game of November, and it'll it'll
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: be a really fun atmosphere and we heading into it
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: because we want. If we would have lost this game,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: it would have been very, very different stories.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: So I mean, it just makes it so we just
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: if we go five hundred DA in the year, you
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: don't feel you want to go warm obviously, but that
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: means we have a one win over a decent team.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hoping that doesn't happen. We'll see I while
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: we're not probably favored or private, you see La, I'm
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: not sure what that'll be, but will definitely be underdogs.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: And the other three I think given the way everybody's
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: played so far.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Penn State, Penn State could be rough shape because they've
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: got Ohio, State of Indiana, Michigan State before us.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: So I'm I still think, I don't know. I'm just
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: not gonna be okay with seven wins, eight wins. I'm
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: even gonna be like, I think we got to get
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: to nine for me to feel just given this year,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: how it's gone on some of these teams, right, Like,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I just and and I'm not saying we can't, We
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: definitely can't. Yeah, seven is gonna six or sevens obviously
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: a whole another conversation.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: So, okay, are doing a basketball preview this week?
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Let's do it this week? Yes, we'll do one. We'll
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: get one out this week, yep. Because season starts next
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: week and the guys played a night against Midland exhibition
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: game at home. We'll get a basketball preview out separate episode.
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: Volleyball is still undefeated, a big ten play yep.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: We're still not losing. Yeah, there's some talk on volleyball
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: I want to do eventually too, because there we're in
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a very good spot right now, which has a lot
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: of things you can read into. I think that they
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: are mostly positive, but also like, how do you it's
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: just unique, right, like to be this dominant and good?
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: How do you handle that given what happened last year
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: and everything? So yeah, we'll if that talks some volleyball
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: here in a little bit too.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: I want I want to get your take on the seat,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: the season ticket holder seat, reassigning the.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Fire, your.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Little cliffhanger there. So that's good, all right? During your week,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: go big red c v R an instruc