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Episode 6.47: Code Red · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: H no no no no no no no no no.
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  Speaker 2: Uh well that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how that's gonna work with our intro music,
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  Speaker 3: but it's Mark from the Glory podcast owner Zarberniki Austin Rose,
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  Speaker 3: Dakota free tag. Hopefully it's March for the Huskers. As
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: far as making the post season tournament, coda red, that's
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: how I'd like to call it right now on where
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: we're at after the lost Minnesota on Saturday, dak you
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: were there.
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we can just start out very fun game birth
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  Speaker 4: that's what killed him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're down nineteen at fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Lit in the game, great inside deck.
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  Speaker 2: We lost by two. So if you do the math
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  Speaker 2: where we don't give up a twenty point lead.
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  Speaker 4: But I cannot remember his name is that white kid
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  Speaker 4: in Minnesota just hit everything. Can not remember his name is,
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  Speaker 4: but rise that last shot, I was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: is going.
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  Speaker 5: In average is like less than five points a game
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  Speaker 5: on the year.
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  Speaker 2: Just goes nuclear and what do you have? Twenty rigsby
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  Speaker 2: seven for eight twenty points.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's out there shouts in the crowd too.
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  Speaker 5: The question I guess is why, Like.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard some other people talk that that game may
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: have been one of the more disappointing losses that Nebraska
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: basketball has had. Not that in Husker sports, because we
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  Speaker 3: know we've had plenty of I was on the football side,
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  Speaker 3: but for basketball in itself, a game that, as much
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  Speaker 3: as you want to say it should win at home.
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  Speaker 3: I think we were eight or nine point favorite. It
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  Speaker 3: was obviously a big one here for resume boosting and
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  Speaker 3: postseason play.
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  Speaker 5: Crowd was rocking. Stripe out Raid the stripe out you
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  Speaker 5: all right?
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  Speaker 2: Based off the picture Dak sent me, I'll give it
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  Speaker 2: a B. B B.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say, I'd say, yeah, B.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't one of the best thing ever stop, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: B we'll say it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, crowd was rocking from what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 3: And then you come out and you start the way
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  Speaker 3: you start in that game.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have an answer.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have an ex explanation, but just the fact
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  Speaker 3: that that is what happened, and that that speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it speaks and what it says,
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  Speaker 3: but it's funny. Nebraska's we probably are not like we
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  Speaker 3: would not call ourselves good this year. We've had our moments.
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  Speaker 3: We've also laid a bunch of eggs and might say
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  Speaker 3: a bunch some blowout losses and then losing a game
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  Speaker 3: like this at home. I don't, I don't know, like
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  Speaker 3: does this team belong in the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because you think back to the way the
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  Speaker 2: football season went and going into the year, we all thought, man,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be like seven and five, six and six,
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  Speaker 2: and then we had the really good start and we're
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  Speaker 2: all like, oh man, Hunter's like, we're gonna win the
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  Speaker 2: college championship.
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  Speaker 5: I never went that far.
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  Speaker 2: But then like the same thing's happening here. We had
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  Speaker 2: this incredible start. We all going into the year, we
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  Speaker 2: all thought we were gonna be like probably like twenty
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: and twelve or I mean, that's I think that's where
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  Speaker 2: we all had us. It was like twenty and twelve.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if any of us really went went
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  Speaker 2: higher than that, And now we're seventeen and twelve with
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: two Winnabowl games allegedly. Yeah, it's just funny.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the thing that really kills this team and
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's since what Birds got hired, every
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  Speaker 4: single team has this is those long scoring droughts. They
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  Speaker 4: just go six seven minutes without scorn a basket and
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  Speaker 4: just taking terrible shots too. That's that's what's killing him that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you don't, you don't much outside the two stars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: bear k being back from injury has not been the same.
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  Speaker 4: I think a season now has known exactly what he
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  Speaker 4: what he's known to do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's fine. That adds an element out there on
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  Speaker 3: the floor of shooting. But he hasn't been great. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Gary's never been an offensive get. We've always said that.
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  Speaker 3: And man, for a guy like that to see him
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  Speaker 3: take his jersey off the way to dofter the game,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just in pure frustration. And Bryce is I like,
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  Speaker 3: he is damn good player. He's athletic, he can shoot it,
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  Speaker 3: great mid range game, He's.
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  Speaker 5: Our go to guy.
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  Speaker 3: But he is the problem is he is kind of
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  Speaker 3: the only thing that we really have as far as
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  Speaker 3: creating cost in our offense. So Minnesota did a great
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  Speaker 3: job defending us, and obviously Michigan did too, holding us
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  Speaker 3: underd fifty in that game. But it's one of those
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  Speaker 3: things that who do you turn to and and this
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  Speaker 3: is where I'm gonna say it, and we knew we
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: miss Case, and we knew we missed all of the
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  Speaker 3: treating in the threat. But the part that we maybe
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  Speaker 3: not have talked about that we missed the most is
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  Speaker 3: his energy and his just what he brings for the teams.
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  Speaker 2: Give you any night of the year, we can go
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  Speaker 2: out there and absolutely just shoot you off the floor.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm talking about the take a shooting away just
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  Speaker 3: as pure mojo and his.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, Like, that's the mojo you got
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  Speaker 2: with it though, It's like this guy can come up
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  Speaker 2: there and he can just like he can shoot you
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  Speaker 2: out of the gym. Now did he always know? Sometimes?
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: But that was kind of the energy when I saw
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  Speaker 2: something today too.
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  Speaker 3: That said, through the same point in the year, Connor
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  Speaker 3: Seasons actually attempted thirty one. Lesson made nine less threes.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean to put in perspective, that's very similar.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obvious he hasn't attempted as many, but as
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  Speaker 3: far as number wise, he's putting up similar numbers to Case.
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  Speaker 3: It's just to you lose that in rank, I think
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  Speaker 3: is the other big piece, Like you mentioned that that
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  Speaker 3: that hurts from last year's team to this year's team.
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: I don't again this is trying to explain the why.
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know what there is. Besides, we need to
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  Speaker 3: win these games if we want to have a shot
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  Speaker 3: in the tournament. And you know what I get, I
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: don't know if this team desert, Like, is this team
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  Speaker 3: a tournament team? Do you want to see them?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Not?
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  Speaker 5: Nebraska fans in general?
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  Speaker 2: What's the fined as tournament teams? So many freaking teams
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  Speaker 2: make the tournament, Like, I'm not, like, do we deserve
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  Speaker 2: to be in the tournament? Shit? We could be probably
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  Speaker 2: ten teams that make the tournament.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the bottom, the bottom of the bubble is
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  Speaker 4: always pretty bad, and this year it's it's really bad
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  Speaker 4: this year. I mean, you gotta look those other teams.
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  Speaker 4: Nebraska is on the same level as all those the
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  Speaker 4: bottom bubble teams.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what is awesome or cool this year as
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: far as where we're at, even after this loss, we're
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  Speaker 3: now I mean back in the thick of the bubble
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  Speaker 3: where I don't think that we're out. It feels like
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: we're out, but I don't think that we are. And
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: a lot of people are saying, well, we gotta win
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  Speaker 3: our last two and a tournament game. I think with
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  Speaker 3: all these lower bubble teams, I mean, beating Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: is going to be a big check mark if we
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  Speaker 3: can do that tomorrow night. But go one and one
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  Speaker 3: and and and win a two tournament games. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think you get the twenty wins you're in, Like
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  Speaker 3: I think that bottom line. However, you that nineteen. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that's half of the question, just because there's
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  Speaker 3: so many bad bubble teams this year, especially more than
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  Speaker 3: other years that have bad losses, that just don't have resumes,
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  Speaker 3: even previous year bubble teams do.
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  Speaker 5: So we're still there. It's not like.
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  Speaker 3: It's not over yet, but it just was demoralizing after
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  Speaker 3: that loss.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's because it's the second loss by the last second,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like we had the lead with what eight
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: seconds left in the game, and then it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: our defense is just gonna let this guy shoot this
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  Speaker 2: three and he drills it and we didn't. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we didn't really get a look at the end, but
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  Speaker 2: we kind of did.
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  Speaker 5: Not the one you'd want, not the one you'd want.
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  Speaker 6: Not with you Morgan Eve, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was. Yeah, I think it's more of it feels
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  Speaker 2: like a code red. I still think we're in the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like a code red because we've had two
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  Speaker 2: games I've lost by three or fewer points, and we
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  Speaker 2: need to win at least we need to. We needed
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  Speaker 2: to win one of these easier games that we have
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  Speaker 2: not even done that.
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  Speaker 4: No, and tomorrow might be loser girls home game, because
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  Speaker 4: you guys are ball sitting on the same same tier there.
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  Speaker 4: I think they lose this game will make tournament. It ever,
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  Speaker 4: wins on is pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: One well, and maybe you can say that, but then
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  Speaker 3: we go on and be Iowa. Now I should put
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  Speaker 3: an asterisk next to this. And obviously, if we'd lose
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  Speaker 3: both games and don't make the Big Ten tournament, there's
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  Speaker 3: obviously a zero percent chance that we're in. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that is a scenario that could happen if we
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: were to lose out and not even make the Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten tournament. You but I think even if you lose
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State be Iowa, you still can pull off a
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  Speaker 3: couple of wins and it's still still the Big Ten, right.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like we're going to be playing teams that
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: we can go up and have no shot at beating.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, any team in the Big ten.
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  Speaker 5: Let's be real.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Michigan State's playing well right now, you probably
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: wouldn't want to run into them, but you know, throw
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  Speaker 3: throw us up against any of these other We just
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: saw what happened against Michigan. I don't think that's out
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  Speaker 3: of the question that we can't win those games, but
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  Speaker 3: it would take a lot to do to get us in.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I think getting to twenty you feel good. However,
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: you get to twenty wins with two remaining games left
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  Speaker 3: in the regular season and then the Big Ten Tournament,
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: I think you're you're probably sitting pretty good. But that
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  Speaker 3: starts tomorrow when we play Ohio State on the road
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  Speaker 3: that we're not going to be favored in and Ohio
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: States is also not playing well. But you can win
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: that game, you're feeling a lot better about where you're
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  Speaker 3: sitting for.
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  Speaker 5: The bubble.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you win that game, you're at least locked
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  Speaker 2: in the Big Ten Tournament, which wants too.
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: That gives you, That gives you the start you obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if you don't get in there, you're not hitting in anyways.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean you look at a House State, they're
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: sixteen twelve, they're projected eleven seed right now, like.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing, remember right ahead and Indiana's back in now.
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  Speaker 4: They beat Nebraska here, didn't they close? Yeah that was
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: on that like sixteen moving street. Yeah, like I news
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  Speaker 4: win tomorrow, good luck on the road.
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  Speaker 3: So this might be a very forward looking and worthless
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  Speaker 3: conversation now, But I think this team hopeful, I mean
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  Speaker 3: hopefully even if we lose, lose, should potentially still be
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  Speaker 3: in the n i T.
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  Speaker 5: And have a shot there.
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  Speaker 3: I still don't think it's the worst thing in the
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  Speaker 3: world if we can find a way if we do
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  Speaker 3: go to the n i T, like to get to
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  Speaker 3: the final four the NIT and show that there's like
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: winning about this team and care last time this happened
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: where we missed the tournament and then that happened to
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: not even get a home game, we went and just
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: got drilled by Mississippi State in the n T.
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  Speaker 5: Not saying that that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be an n I T team for sure,
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  Speaker 3: but if it does, I just I hope that for
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: I mean everybody's sake, But I mean I will say,
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: mainly for Hoiberg, that that they have that fight and
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: bring that fight and and don't think we're quote unquote
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: too good for the NIT because good god, we aren't.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: That's an opportunity to play in the postseason, and we
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: better show up and be cool to win a few
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: games in that tournament. So that's long ways down the
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: road there, but I think that that's part of the conversation.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: Everybody's still wanting an NCAA tournament bid, obviously, and I
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: think that's still possible, but it just looks bleaker and
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: bleaker every time we lose one of these games.
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  Speaker 2: If I had to say right now, I would if
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: I had to put money on it, I'd say, we
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: make the tournament, lose round.
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  Speaker 5: One, wow four. I'm the opposite. I'm the opposite. I
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: think there's a chance. I'm just I lean more towards
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: NOE right now.
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  Speaker 6: See, so you think they win tomorrow, Austin.
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  Speaker 2: I think they went one of the last two, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's enough to get us in the last four.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm scared of is losing tomorrow, beating Iowa, and
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: then losing first round of the Big Ten tournament. And
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: I think that could be a plausible scenario, or losing, winning, winning, losing,
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  Speaker 3: getting going nineteen and fourteen and not getting into I
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  Speaker 3: think that would be that would be the true bubble
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  Speaker 3: bubble right there, that scenario in my mind.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Now did you see in the projection right now? Who
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: also is in the first four is Nebraska?
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you said at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 6: Wun't that be sweet to be the first one? There
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  Speaker 6: you go?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they suck, they are They make your eyes bleed too,
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  Speaker 4: though they are not fun to watch, like I watched
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: some brask watchrop Homine like these are the same exact team.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, everyone's gonna talk about whether if we
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: do get up one of those first four games in
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: Dayton and play that game, if that counts. I mean
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: it counts, it does. It's part of the tournament. It's
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: just not the same feeling.
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  Speaker 2: It's not how you want to get your first tournament win.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, But.
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  Speaker 5: If it gainst Oklahoma, for sure, damn counts.
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  Speaker 6: You'd have to go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going where if we make it, I'm going regardless, wherever, whenever.
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  Speaker 5: So that's just up to you to go.
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: Now, I'm out. If it's dating, I'm out. I'm not
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: going to first four game.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: It could be all of the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think I made the mistake. After we
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: lost six in a row, I was like, screw it,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna sign up for a curling tournament the first weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're not making it. I'm out. Have we turned
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: it around?
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  Speaker 5: And that's what's been weird.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: It's been.
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  Speaker 3: It was like up then we looked horrible, then we
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: got back up again, and now we're back to the.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Can we can we get get it back up here?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: How we play offense? I guess we don't. I mean,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: this is premature. I was gonna say, Fred Hoiberg, temperature check.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, the crowd was pissed. I heard a lot
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: of fire.
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  Speaker 3: I was not going to bring it up because I
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: knew it probably wasn't the time to talk about it.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: But I've heard the rumblings, and now that you brought
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: it up, let's we can talk about it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about it.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I I don't think you fire him after this year
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  Speaker 2: if we don't make the tournament, but the seed is hot.
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  Speaker 5: Lost loss in the year, not make the big ten tournament.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: I've said, it's all along. Who are gonna get that's better?
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you. I'll tell you who I thought of
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: two years ago that I was hot on.
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  Speaker 6: Quarter Moser.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Nope, Rick, and guess what we thought.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: We don't want Rick Patino comes with too much baggage,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: all this stuff.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Well looking now people look what he's done. That's true,
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: he was. I don't know, he's not coming here anymore.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: But that.
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  Speaker 5: Was who I wanted to. I don't know.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I don't Again, it's going back to the conversation, who
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: are you gonna get who you want? I don't know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I don't care. But what's what what we have is stale.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: It's gone stale. So that's what That's what ultimately with
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: a lot of coaching changes happen is when is when
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: you stop seeing growth and improvement or you start seeing
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: obviously downfalls of teams or people just become stale and
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: like that. I wasn't that the game, but you said
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: may people were upset frustrated. That's usually where it starts, especially.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: From Husker fans.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe Bill Solf will be on the market. He had
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to come out and put a statement after I lost
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Maybe they're playing well right now against Houston the.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Predicative that predictive of five seed, and he asked him
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: out and have a statement about sorry that how bad they're.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Playing, yeah, playing well against now.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's any suction fire Hoy Harberg especially
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: give one more year, like, I just do not see
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: he can get that would be better.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: But see this is where that I disagreed completely with that.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: How long you're going to keep saying one more year,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: one more year, one more year, one more year. And
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: when you keep when you all, I mean, you're not
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: the only one. People just say, who else are you
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: going to get? I don't know, but give someone a
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: fresh try and start.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I'm so sick and tired of, especially Nebraska, thinking we
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: have to hire the next big name coach that everybody
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: knows and as a resume, like I don't take a flyer.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: On you know, South Dakota State coaches.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I want some young, motive football too. Again, we have
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: rule and that's going the way it's going. I I
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: we don't you don't need to hire I like coaches
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: that have motivation, that want to earn themselves. Nebraska is not,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: especially in basketball, is not a program that you come
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: here to to end your career here. That's not what
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: you're doing Nebraska basketball, especially you are. We I want
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: somebody with motivation a young guy and the next step up.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I kind of said that with football a little bit too,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: like I get it and rule is probably the best
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: scenario case of those, But I didn't want necessarily even
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: like an urban Meyer, like a guy that you know
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: what if he's if he comes in him for a
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: year or two and things aren't working out, he's just
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: kind of gonna say, f at, my, my life's been great.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: See yeah, Like I feel like that's when you're at
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: that point.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: A lot of those coaches, that's how they kind of
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: think and and and Hoiberg's done a good job of
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: trying to keep things fresh and motivated. But I I
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: hate the excuse me, who else are you gonna get?
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I hate that is that is my least favorite line
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: to ever hear when it comes to coaching searches, because
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: we don't know. Unless you've done extensive research on mid
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: major type coaches, you have no idea who's out there.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: And I don't know about you guys, I haven't exactly.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: That's why you say that, And you just say it
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: like you you know what you're talking about, where you
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: have no idea you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Know would be wild who went on got like like
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Kim Mulky or something like don you know, like, uh,
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: like I just throwing guy out there.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: I don't even know who it is, but the Drake,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Drake's head coach too there there there right now, you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: win the Missouri Valley pretty handily and looking to be
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: a tournament team. There's always two to three to four
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: coaches that you know, a twelve seed or eleven seed
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: or and lower that make a run out of in
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the tournament. That those are the kind of guys that
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I like, I would love to take a flyer on
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: versus saying, well, let's just give it one more year.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: We know what we're.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Gonna get next year with Horberg, we know exactly what
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: we're gonna get. We're gonna get a bunch of transfers
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: in that everyone's gonna think, Okay, these guys could be good.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: We're gonna piece something together. We're gonna try to fit
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: this puzzle.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: We're gonna see if we're gonna make the tournament again,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: and great, that's what we're after.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: But if it fails again, then why are we gonna
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: keep trying that approach when we could bring somebody else
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: in with a fresh face that can give us something
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: potential there and might that might fail too, but it's
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: better than just going through the same cycle that we've
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: gone through over the last five six years.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: That's kind of what we do with ten Miles correct, correct,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: and it worked until it didn't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I guess, yeah, he he got fired against the same
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: way Hoburgers, which you feel like it's just you're stuck
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: in the same position.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: That's what Miles.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Got fired, right, We get right up to the bubble
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and then we just would there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, now, now what's crazy? This is how funny this is.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: We're also what winning two three, So it gets I'm
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: gonna go back to my twenty win scenario, winning three
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and then plus one. We're also four games away from
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Hoiberg being a legendary coach Nebraska because he won our
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: first tournament game. I mean, that's that's the other way
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: of thinking of it, that that's still in reach.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: And you do that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Conversation earlier in the year of like he could become
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the best coach in Nebraska history, and I obviously.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: The one that puts that tournament win out there will
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: be regardless of what you've done leading up to that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: So that's what's wild.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: You could have the conversation both ways, and there's only
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: two games left in the regular season, and we could
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: one way it could be the.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Fired get a new guy, or the other way. He's
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: the best coach.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I mean if he if he wins one tournament game,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that that feasibly buys him two more years.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Agreed.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, Hunter, you can't tell me lean that
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: stadium after the first game we went to that you
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: thought this team would be sitting really are now at
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the end the year?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I would I I wouldn't say it changed that much.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was the first game of the year,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and I was not surprised, but that was one game
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I mean against I don't even know how that team's
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: doing now.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: They they didn't look good. But it last year.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I went to their first game against Doane, the exhibition game,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: and they were down like fifteen to eight through like
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: eight minutes, like what blanket.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Hunter came on the podcast and it was just we went.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: We went to the tournament that year, So I don't
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking, like, I'm not surprised where we're at.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Like Austin' said at the top of the show, it
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: was we all probably had us around this twenty win mark,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: like right around here, and we did.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It. Just sucks on how we got there. All right,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: let's move.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: It's March. But I love it. I love March. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: love college college basketball.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Now is getting close to conference tournament time, a lot
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: of them starting up. I love just following and watching
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: all those and obviously the tournament and.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: All that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: So March is one of my favorite months of the
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: year for good reason.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: This week in three aprils the best time of the year.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: We should I know we've done this before but won't
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: do it tonight, but.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: The best sports season.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: These months and seasons, because I there's there's the Bates
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I it is, it is, this is probably it might
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: be my top, but there's some other months that are
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: pretty dam We did.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: We did that draft during COVID. I want to say
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: October was up there because you had yeahs, NFL college
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: football and baseball and hockey.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: NBA kicking It's yeah, it's there's a lot there.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I think from this weekend until well you go straight
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: so you go your March madness, the Masters and then
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: starting to be a playoffs. I think, yeah, I think
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: it's the best. But then back to me first season
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: college football.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Firstly, I'll think it's the best.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: All right, while we're still in college basketball and we
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: don't got to go through a whole little thing here.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't just want to talk about what you guys
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: thought about the toughest Big Ten arenas to play in
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: road road environments. I just saw Big Ten Conference posted
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: one of their interview videos with all the coaches and
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: there's a couple of pretty common ones that came up.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: But you guys see.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: That video, I did not, Nope, So this will be
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: kind of Fred to see what you guys think if
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: he's want to throw some out there, some of the
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: tough toughest play is to play. There's one predominant one
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: that I mean, I think they are all the eighteen
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: coaches I would say probably at least ten, if not
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: closer to fifteen said this one one arena, Assembly Hall,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: No and No Purdue, Purdue and Mackie Area.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: That's backtly my top three right there, Indiana and Purdue,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Michigan State.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: And Indiana was who Matt Painter said, and a couple
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: others said Michigan.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: State is gonna be a little feisty.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: They didn't get any votes. By the coaches.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Would you say, Austin Pbak.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I can't remember.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: One of the newer coaches from out west said, uh.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Rutgers is from what he heard.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: He's like, I haven't played there, but he said Rutgers,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: which I I mean Jersey Mike's arena in the rack.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I guess Nebraska's had their fair sheriff struggles there, just
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: unique environment. But Michigan State Indiana were the other two
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: that got thrown out there the most. I don't even
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: know if anybody else got mentioned, but pretty consensus.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: I thought.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I thought the Rutgers one was funny. I think I
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: think PBA has gotta be one of the nicest. I
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: don't know about the atmosphere.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Wise, I agree, it's not it is not a.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: The ones that were mentioning assembly hall, I can't remember
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: the fieldhouse at Michigan State's name. They're all like, I
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: don't know their college arenas their college. PBA is more
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: more professionalized, looks like more of an NBA arena versus
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: a true college arena like some of these other arms.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Okay, now, okay, wait, easily the worst arena oregan get
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: to that court.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I don't mind it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Oh, I hate watching it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the worst one would be.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: And and do you remember that crowd when Nebraska played there?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: That yeah, that was they have to be the worst.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: USC and LA can get really bad too if they're
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: if their teams are bad.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say some of those.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: And I don't know like Big Ten wise, I mean,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I feel like Northwestern's.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Not ever no, yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Anything when it comes to fans bases.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: But.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: The Barn up Minnesota, that place can get rocking.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've never been to I've never been to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: an away basketball game.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I went, That's true.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I went to a neutral site game against k State
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: in Kansas City.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: I guess I have only been.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Manhattan.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Last year.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: We didn't go to Nebraska went to a per new
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: exhibition game when we were out there for the football
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: brasket football game?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Did that?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: So been in there? But yeah, as far as Nebraska
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: road games, not much. Let's move on NFL Draft combine
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: updates here with you guys, and just thoughts, general thoughts
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: on it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: You know what, I think they all helped themselves. I
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: think I agree, like I don't.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I don't think you could argue the opposite way, Tyer
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Robinson had a really really strong day, especially with his
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: forty yard dash time. I would never have thought he
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: has a virtual jump with thirty three and a half inches,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: but he does for me in six five to eighty eight,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: which when I heard that, I'm like, I thought he
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: was bigger than that, which I think he's lost twenty pounds.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: That's why he's so quick and could jump so high.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So whether that be what he's going to play at,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe that's what he was told he
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: needs to be playing at in the NFL. That's what
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I had to guess. So he had a very good showing.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Fidoni and Isaiah and a Are also had good showings.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: And Tommy Hill, the other one that will be in
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the draft, he didn't do any testing, but I think
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: they all help their cases. And what's so hard about this,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: and this happens every year when it comes to draft time.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: If we have guys in the draft, is if they
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: test well. I'm thinking of offensive linemen off the top
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: of my head that then go on and have good
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: NFL careers. It's like, well, what the hell do we
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: do with the Matt Nebraska? Like, why do we not
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: make use of them. I'm sure that conversation will get
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: brought up. I mean they Or is probably the bigger one.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: In the one year that we had him, we really
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: didn't use him. If he ends up getting drafted, I
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: don't know that he will maybe late late around Ty
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Robinson I thought had a very solid career at Nebraska.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: He did.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: He was one of our defensive leaders this year.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: YAHDONI was just marred by injuries.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: And I expect he probably will continue to be that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: So like good for those guys, I mean having good,
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: good days.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I don't have many more thoughts on on their performance
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: or where Like I've heard Fiddoni potentially being a Day
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: two or not, Fidoni tithing into potential a Day two
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: round round two or three guy as kind of his ceiling,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I think Fidoni, you know it's he's your mid to
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: late late round. And then Tommy Hill is probably in
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: there somewhere late round as well.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Which he dropped off. Heear he was projected like first
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: round going into the year.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Too many injuries, dak no thoughts on Nope, did not
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: did not watch the combine or look up anything about it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: So I have there's one thing.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Did you guys see Will Howard's I should note it
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: was the worst.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Performance I've ever saw a quarterback have at of protate.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: They not the combine I did.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: I did hear about it. I didn't see it, but yes.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: You have to have to watch watch that video after.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: It was awful, easily the worst. Like I don't I
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: thought he was gonna be okay. I think that might
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: have dropped him, like three or four rounds.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Is that bad?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Huge energy? I feel like he's yeah, you know, he'll
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: get drafted, but then he'll just be it, serve as
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: a backup practice squad guy for a couple of years
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and then disappear.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: And that's my combine wrap up right there.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Last topic here I want to bring up.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: And I believe this has probably been about a full
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: week ago since the news came out about Nebraska hiring
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Pat Stewart as the new GM, which we have a
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: GM last year in set and Patten he's still going
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: to have a role and on the staff more it
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: sounds like maybe like a remote type and dealing a
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: lot more with the financial piece side of things. And
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: then Pat Stewart coming from well he had he has
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Patriots experience with him under Belichick has been the big
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: recurring theme that I've been hearing, and this brings up
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: a larger topic of conversation of obviously college football and
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: where everything is going. Nebraska obviously being still one of
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: the call them the blue blood people probably argue that,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: but big brand in the college football landscape.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: Everything's moving fast.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Nobody knows where it really is going, and it's changing constantly,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: and it's going to continue to do that over the
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: next few years. I want to get your guys' gauge on.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, with this hiring of this GM, making it
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: a little more NFL like, which we all said, it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: moving that way on a scale of like being.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: One being lagging behind the times, two ten being.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: We're the leader forefront of of making proactive decisions with
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: everything that's going on. Where where would you play Nebraska
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: sports in general, but mainly targeting football.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're in the middle.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: That's gonna say. The the GM thing has kind of
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: just started up, but.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: You've heard of other people having the g.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so they're definitely the leader in it, but they're
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: like they're falling, like it's getting big now and they
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: I feel like you hired you right right in the
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: middle of the pack. When starting everyone's starting to get one.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: So what's the number six?
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, seven?
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I guess I was going to say a
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: seven as well, but I was going to frame it
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: more as and I feel like we're on the forefront edge,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: the front front edge versus the middle seven or eight
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: is where I was thinking.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: And I think that we're making.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: A lot of moves because we feel like it's what
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: needs to happen now, what needs to happen and what.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Actually leads to success two different things.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: It still comes down to winning on the football field,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: and we have not done that still over several years.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: But we still have the resources and the support right
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: now to be funding and supporting a hopefully a powerhouse
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: type of program. I think all these moves are as
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: a result of that. Who knows, maybe five ten years
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: down the road, we're going to look back and say, no,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Nebraska was actually like leading that for packed in a
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: lot of these things, but we don't know that, mainly
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: because I don't know what other schools are doing, but
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: just hearing what Nebraska does just through some of the
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: daily podcast, weekly podcasts, and news that we hear in
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: the offseason, rascat, it feels like we're making a lot
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: of decisions and framing that I guess in a positive light,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: which what's new, that's what we do.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I will say, when I heard this, I felt good
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: about it. You know, it's like our Patriots had been
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: a pretty good organization for a long time. My other
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: thought was, damn, how many people are gonna have in
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: are freaking building. We gotta we got Phil snow up there.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: They were keeping the previous general manager. They got the
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: new general manager. We have four offensive coordinators, two defensive coordinators.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: So here's here's my thought to try to explain that
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: as long as you have the vision and structure and
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: place and the responsibilities clearly laid out, I don't ever
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: see a problem in more as better. Some people I
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: think disagree with that. Were when when you start talking
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: about too many cooks in the kitchen. I know we've
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: had that conversation on here before. But if the if
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: the structure and the responsibilities are laid out in a
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: way that leads success, then I always think more is
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: better because you have more diversity of thoughts and opinions.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: What's fascinating with this all you're getting, you're growing in
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: that way, you're actually cutting players in the actual people
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: that are doing the playing for you. That that's good,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: and so you're you're managing a smaller group of people
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: with a larger amount of people. That's where I think
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: something that might get overlooked. Now these gms and these
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: personnel directors and coordinators and help all these offensive coordinators
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: and defensive court that we have on our staff, they
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: can now focus more on silos of people, and especially
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: in recruiting, especially in NIL like I've heard so many
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: comparisons and people are just probably trying to put a
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: thought on it, just like we are. Of the high
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: school recruitings like the draft, and you can't go out
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: and pay sign for sign rookies and pay a buck.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: You got to pick and choose which rookies you're signing
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: the massive deals and you want to keep around. You
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: got to be very strategic in your high school players
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: on who you're paying the big NIL deals for because
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: you don't you can't afford one roster space but then
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: financially too to bring all of those people in and
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: have a bunch of walk ons, and you can't have
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: some random guy from Lincoln. He said, Hey, I'm gonna
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: go to Nebraska and let's check this out. Like you
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: got to spend your time and your time like when
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: they come and recruit, like to make it about the
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: recruits that you actually really really want and make it
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: really special for them. That's where I think all these
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: people come into play as far as all of that
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: organization and coordination goes, which is new. It's brand new
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: to college football, but it's more like NFL scouting combines
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: free you can see in the draft, Like that's what
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: the comparison is more too. And I completely agree with
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: the way it's going because the contracts are coming, which
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: is also NFL based.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I mean, yeah, that's honestly what I think.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: We're prepping for his contracts. That's why you bring in
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: a general manager and you keep your other general manager
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: on because you know someone's gonna be in charge of
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the contracts and the negotiating and then all that stuff.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do you guys, how long do you think it'll
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: be until these contracts aren't happening?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Two years?
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say less than five.
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's gona be.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Really soon here and that's mostly just because you're trying
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: to get rid of that transfer portal. I think like
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: it is now leave everyone can leave after one year,
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: but now you signed his contracts. You want players stick
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: around for two or three years.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: And this is the other fun piece that goes along
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: with that.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: You mentioning a lot of guys you know, going somewhere
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: and leaving a lot of times when you're recruiting, right
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: you are in a recruiting battle for a high school kid.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: There's five schools left, you get knocked out. When they
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: cut down to three, you go, okay, well, not going
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to get that guy. What's funny about it now is
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: that you keep those guys in the radar, you keep
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: talking with you. In a year, depending on how their
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: situation goes, you're back on the market for him. And
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: there's a reason you're in their top five. So it
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: just opens up so many more jobs in types of
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: situations that could happen with the portal. And that's where again,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: teams that do it the right way and are on
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: the cutting edge and leading edge of it, they're going
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: to see more success. And we have to take advantage
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: of that time that we have while we're still having
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: the resources for us at Nebraska like to move up
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: in that in that ranking, which ultimately starts with winning
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: games come fall.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, got to start winn You know it's great that
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I keep announcing new hire, new position.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, recruiting really doesn't even like recruiting freshmen to
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: come in doesn't even really matter anymore.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: It does for select positions.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I think we talked about this earlier in
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: their football season. I think the Portals.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Guys are going to play day one.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: It's done for your select positions. But what are the positions?
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: That's that's what these people are getting hired for to
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: figure out. Like I just my own opinion, I think
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: wide receivers I would not ever try to recruit high
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: schoolers wide receivers.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: I don't even think that that's a question you the
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: portal there's so many of them. There's so many guys
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: that come from Division two three that have great two
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: years there, that are ready to take the next step
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: like that. That to me is one position you don't
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: target in high school. I think that's where these people
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: are deciding though on those kids. And I that to
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: your point, I think high school kids are it is.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: It's just like the NFL draft or the NBA draft,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: right you can build your team on two ways. You
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: can just free agent it every year and make trades.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying trades are coming, but I think
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: a lot of this nil transfers kind of like it
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: where you are just you just continue to reload like
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Fred's done for our basketball team, or you tank and
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: you get a lot of a lot of picks. Now
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: that scenarios not non existent right now, I'm not sure
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: how you would ever get there when it comes from
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: draft picks and high school kids. But high school high
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: school recruiting is a little more like draft where yeah,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: you're not going to build a whole team, but you
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: could hit a gem if you if you if you
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: do it the right way when it's.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: When gotta win.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: That's funny how that's not changed over the last six years. Okay, Well,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: it's big week for Nebraska basketball and women play.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: I believe is it tomorrow or Wednesday? First round?
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I think it's Wednesday.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: So they got the eleven seed.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I believe in the tournament they're very bubbly now they
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: should be in yeah.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: But but but still they're a little bubbly.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: So yeah, and then obviously the men two big games
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: here before.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: We talked next, we gotta we gotta do the weight watch.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: He did not help out the strap out at all
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: to say that wore a purple jump suit to the.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm gonna and I will say it.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: I don't care that that bugs me because it makes
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: it all about him, which whatever he tries to about
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: to make sure it's all about him, which again, win
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: games go right ahead.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: I don't give a ship. But we aren't there yet.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: His weight I did here.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I guess it was the coaches talked this last week
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: and they they made they gave specific examples about him
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: doing a lot of cardio and how he's there in
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the morning and you know, they get there first and
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: he's he's in there riding the bike or you know.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: So there's a talk.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: They're not just amongst us, there is there is talk
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: that he's losing weight or needs to lose weight. I
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: can't tell you if he looks slimmer. That jacket was pretty, uh,
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: I was saying it was loose. As far as the
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: type of jacket that he was wearing.
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know you're coming the strap. He sat
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: front row right there. He's wearing that far he sticks
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: like it's more thumb. It was like, it's like, dude,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: what are you doing?
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: I did. I didn't like him, but whatever.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Get rid of him. Yep, give me heindrich.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: I'm fright. I didn't fire you up, Boston.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I didn't know until right now. To be honest, he look.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Like he was transferring to k State wearing that jacket,
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: is what it looked. I mean, it literally looked like
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: a key State jacket.
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: That light that reaction. Get rid of him to go
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: to ky State. Be a freaking student athlete, you know,
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: support your school. Where are the school colors?
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: How hard is it?
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Especially when we're doing a stripe out that gotta be rating.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: That's true, Paddy Warren white or red. I don't know
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: what section he was in.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: I had no clue what color section I was in.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Thank god red and were in the red section. I
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: I thought my feet wearing white an't like, holy crap. Ba, Actually,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: we are gonna stick out a smart time if we don't. Uh,
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: if we're not in the right section here, Nope, we're good.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: All right, we'll be back next week.
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: Go bred g b R, go Big Red
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: BA