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Episode 15 | Plays That Change a Football Game · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big, Rent, it takes the numbers, the chaos Hunter Austin,
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  Speaker 1: Dak talking corn Husker football, basketball, and everything Nebraska sports.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Return to Glory Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Return to Glory Podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Hunter's Arbniki Austin Roads, Tuesday, August twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 4: We are creeping day by day closer to the start
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  Speaker 4: of football season. Actually it is week zero season and
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  Speaker 4: that live Lovely Ireland game here.
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  Speaker 5: Saturday man any PTSD Ireland game review. Cole moved on
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  Speaker 5: from from WEEKO.
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  Speaker 3: I do now, thanks for bringing it up.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have it either until you said I chilled down.
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  Speaker 4: My sin brings back where you were the day, the
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  Speaker 4: moment that we kicked the offside kick.
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  Speaker 5: And waking up bright and nearly cracking a guinness and
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  Speaker 5: sitting on my couch and I was living in the
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  Speaker 5: exurban area and ohme on on, wow.
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  Speaker 3: The onside gud happened and you looked around.
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  Speaker 5: You said, what was that? Yep, watching it. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 5: sure by myself. I don't think anyone else was there,
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  Speaker 5: and I just remember, just remember the hands on the head.
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  Speaker 6: What a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yesterday we had a chance to listen to Troy
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  Speaker 4: Dannon Talk Live, Austin. I believe you have some things
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  Speaker 4: you want to say.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, I am so freaking sick and tired. Just I
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  Speaker 5: get it. I'm sorry, Troy. Your Big Grid Rebuild website launched, like,
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  Speaker 5: oh man, we need more money.
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  Speaker 6: Nil. We're eight spending in the Big ten.
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  Speaker 5: We only spent twenty three million dollars on nil last year.
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  Speaker 5: I am so freaking sick and tired of this guy
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  Speaker 5: asking for money. I get it, we brought him. He
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  Speaker 5: wants to fundraise, but go like, I don't need to
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  Speaker 5: hear about it. Like, I don't know who you think
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  Speaker 5: you're talking to on these radio shows. Your deep pockets
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  Speaker 5: that you're trying to shake. They already know you need money,
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  Speaker 5: because you're already talking to them at every fundraiser you can.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, if people donate to winning football programs,
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  Speaker 5: win a freaking game, I.
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  Speaker 6: Don't want to give you any money. If you're a
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  Speaker 6: shitty program. You know who?
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  Speaker 5: Didn't you know who two years ago was one of
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  Speaker 5: the worst football programs. I had no freaking al money. Indiana,
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  Speaker 5: I know, I get it. Indiana is this though gem
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  Speaker 5: of what could be? You know how many? How many
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  Speaker 5: millions of dollars. Think Mark Cuban donated to Indiana two
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  Speaker 5: years ago. None you know how much money he gave
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  Speaker 5: them last year game like enough money to break him
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  Speaker 5: on the field during the Football Championship. Turns out, if
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  Speaker 5: you win games, people want to give you money. And gosh,
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  Speaker 5: if I had to listen to this guy be like,
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  Speaker 5: we need this, we need we need we want to
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  Speaker 5: be competitive, we need more money. It's like, dude, shut up,
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired. Great, how much more money? Were like, don't
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  Speaker 5: spend it on a freaking stadium? You built that looks
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  Speaker 5: like shit, Like you just built this big, old freaking
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  Speaker 5: training facility. Our sellout streak is over four hundred games.
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  Speaker 5: What have you guys been doing with that money? Most
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  Speaker 5: programs don't sell out games for four hundred games in
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  Speaker 5: a row. We man, I was, I'm'm just like, goddamn,
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  Speaker 5: I have to hear Troy dan and bitch about money
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  Speaker 5: one more time. I'm sick of it. I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to hear Troy Dana talk. He talks, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I'm done.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to Like if he comes every time
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  Speaker 5: he comes on, he's like, we need more money. It's like, dude,
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  Speaker 5: we get it. NIL sucks where he's in the big
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  Speaker 5: ten or thirtieth nationally in NIL spending specifically.
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  Speaker 3: So but good good, that was a good, good little rant.
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  Speaker 6: I thought. I was so freaking pissed. I was so
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  Speaker 6: pissed and.
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  Speaker 4: I and I don't want to argue with you, but uh,
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  Speaker 4: this is my take on it all. Generally speaking, money
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  Speaker 4: can and helps you buy championships for sure, and and
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  Speaker 4: so I will completely agree with that.
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  Speaker 3: And part of Troy's job new job in the NIL
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  Speaker 3: era is to do this.
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  Speaker 4: And he definitely is trying that. But I from what
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  Speaker 4: I'm hearing.
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  Speaker 3: And I I think the.
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  Speaker 4: Frustration from a lot of fans is the usage of
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  Speaker 4: these funds that are coming in, which a lot of
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  Speaker 4: them obviously are going to NIL. But are you know
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  Speaker 4: from the stadium or whatever, like all this stuff is
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  Speaker 4: nice and and but until you win games and prove
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  Speaker 4: that it matters, it's it's just annoying. It's like a
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  Speaker 4: little bug in your ear of like, hey, help me,
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  Speaker 4: help me do this, and here give me a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money to do this, and then you look at
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  Speaker 4: it and you go, where's my money going?
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  Speaker 5: Like we're people have been we've been giving them money
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  Speaker 5: For freaking years. I haven't given them anything outside of tuition.
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  Speaker 5: But you know I purchase tickets because I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to donate because they suck.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I get it. You're like, well, if you donate,
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  Speaker 6: then they will suck. That's Texas A and M. How
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  Speaker 6: that worked out?
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  Speaker 5: How much money do they build out for the you
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  Speaker 5: know Texas Tech? How much money do they use to
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  Speaker 5: build their roster? Did they win anything last year? I
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  Speaker 5: didn't think so. You know U c LA spends.
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  Speaker 6: More money than us. How good they've been the last
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  Speaker 6: couple of years. You know it doesn't it? Yes, it does,
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  Speaker 6: you know relate, but how much money does? I can now?
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  Speaker 5: The Indianas in the Iowa those are the two. Those
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  Speaker 5: are the two teams we always bang our drum about.
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  Speaker 5: I always spends money less money than us. They've been
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  Speaker 5: freaking good forever. This you know, they spent five million
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  Speaker 5: dollars less than us. And what kind of that shook
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  Speaker 5: out for them? Like you can do it? And I'm
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  Speaker 5: sorry that you you fucked up and you gave sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I'm cussing a lot this morning, but boy, I was
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  Speaker 5: freaking esteemed yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: And I will say too, like what what demographic or
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  Speaker 4: what style do we fit in?
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  Speaker 3: We are we are the blue collar like earn earn.
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  Speaker 4: Your way, you need more your Indiana's Iowa as your youth,
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  Speaker 4: about your UCLA's your A and m's.
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  Speaker 3: What do they have in common?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're they're in a very different market. Like our
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  Speaker 4: identity if we go back to that word, is more
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  Speaker 4: along the lines of, you know, the Midwest, tough nose,
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  Speaker 4: earn it. The tricky part is that we still have
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  Speaker 4: the ability because of who we are, to raise financial capital.
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  Speaker 3: And and yeah, we're not top of.
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  Speaker 4: The top, but we have that ability and so that
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  Speaker 4: kind of it kind of pulls you away from the
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  Speaker 4: identity of blue collar when you have the money. So
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  Speaker 4: we're like in this weird between blue collar and white
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  Speaker 4: collar type of demographic. And we've said that it makes
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  Speaker 4: it tricky on how to manage.
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  Speaker 3: So this is good.
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  Speaker 4: This wasn't what we were going to talk about today,
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  Speaker 4: but it's good to bring up and discuss because it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's just where we're at in college football.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it all still goes back to what
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  Speaker 4: you said, Austin, like if we don't suck, it's a
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  Speaker 4: very different view, but right now we suck.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like what.
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  Speaker 4: Comes first, the car before the horse or whatever that
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  Speaker 4: analogy phrases like it's.
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  Speaker 5: Cart cart car Traditionally cars don't call overs.
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  Speaker 4: But you need you need money and what choy saying
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  Speaker 4: you need money to be good? Well how about you'd
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  Speaker 4: be good first and then we'll give you money like that,
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of where.
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  Speaker 6: There's definitely enough money.
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  Speaker 5: There's enough money to be competitive, and we haven't really
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  Speaker 5: even looked competitive, you know. And again, yes, money does help,
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  Speaker 5: but it's this still doesn't get It feels like they're
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  Speaker 5: saying we're gonna win a championship if you give money.
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  Speaker 6: But that's just not the case.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Oregon, Oregon in Texas, he's more than almost more
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  Speaker 5: than double what we pay.
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  Speaker 6: At least they haven't won a championship. I mean, but
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  Speaker 6: it does help, But it does help.
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  Speaker 5: I don't disagree, But can we do better than maybe
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  Speaker 5: barely squeaking out?
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  Speaker 6: He's seven and six seasons in a row. That'd be cool.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, we're making Bowl games.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I know, I know, and I've been the mostly
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  Speaker 5: positive voice and it's like there's been some progress and
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry you goofed up and you paid Matt Rule
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  Speaker 5: a shit ton of money and are tight ends coach
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  Speaker 5: is making the most money of any tight ends coach
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  Speaker 5: in the country. I almost guarantee it because messed up
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  Speaker 5: there and we're getting all the we're paying all these
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  Speaker 5: defensive coordinators who are no longer with the program.
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  Speaker 4: That will be a big, big topic of conversation. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: depending we'll see how this year goes. I mean, when
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  Speaker 4: you're when you're evaluating coaches, your how you're spending your
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  Speaker 4: money and where that money is going as a coach. Now,
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  Speaker 4: obviously there's more pieces to that with a program and
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  Speaker 4: a general manager and an ad now involved in some
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  Speaker 4: of these decisions. But when you're a coach and you're
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  Speaker 4: spending money on players and coaches that aren't paying out,
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  Speaker 4: now you're that's part of your contract, that's part of
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  Speaker 4: your job, and if you're messing that up, that is
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  Speaker 4: going to heavily impact your decision to retain.
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  Speaker 3: You at any major program.
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  Speaker 4: Co all right, the topic next topic today that we're
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  Speaker 4: going to discuss here is plays, the biggest, most impactful
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  Speaker 4: plays in a football game.
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  Speaker 3: And this is more general.
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  Speaker 4: We have been in Nebraska on the negative side of this,
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  Speaker 4: where it's hurt us and cost us games. But generally speaking,
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  Speaker 4: you can hear coaches say, you know, every play matters,
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  Speaker 4: no plays more important than the others, and then I
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  Speaker 4: think that's very true. Right, So we're not really talking
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  Speaker 4: about that. What we're talking about is in a close
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  Speaker 4: football game, there's usually I don't know, ten to twelve
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  Speaker 4: snaps that you can go back retrospectively and say those
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  Speaker 4: plays are what changed the game, whether it be a turnover,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a long forty five yard completion, a converted
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  Speaker 4: third and eight, a fourth and one, a penalty that
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  Speaker 4: happened in the red zone. Today, I want to, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: talk about what those plays are, why they happen, and
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  Speaker 4: then get your take on how can coaches and teams
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  Speaker 4: actually prepare their players and teams to win these plays
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  Speaker 4: that really come down to a game. So I guess
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask you like you kind of agree
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  Speaker 4: that I mean that ten to twelve number about right.
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  Speaker 3: That's in mind, That's kind of what I came up with.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, that sounds about right, because I mean how
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  Speaker 5: he snaps typically eighty snaps a game.
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  Speaker 6: Is that roughly?
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  Speaker 4: I think I read there's like one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and forty snaps ish, like that's the general
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  Speaker 4: take of.
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  Speaker 3: What isn't the game.
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  Speaker 5: I guess probably sixty on offense, sixty on defense. I
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  Speaker 5: can I guess that makes sense. I think I'm just
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  Speaker 5: doing honest. Yeah, no, that sounds about right. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 5: little less than ten percent of your play is need
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  Speaker 5: to have a big impact, and the rest of it
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  Speaker 5: you just can't. Now, so you want to we're doing
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  Speaker 5: this to the positive ones, not the impact, the negative impact,
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  Speaker 5: just positive impact plays.
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  Speaker 6: Is that what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: No, it can be both.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's anything that changes the way of the game.
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  Speaker 4: And so like this, I mean, this is an example,
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  Speaker 4: if not so much what these plays are. But I
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  Speaker 4: just want to get into the there's not science behind it,
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  Speaker 4: but the discussion behind these plays.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess if you want to start.
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  Speaker 4: With like turnovers, just in big explosive plays, you always
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  Speaker 4: hear coaches go, we need to be explosive, we need
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  Speaker 4: to you know, convert third down, fourth downs. And so
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  Speaker 4: there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Stat out there, there's a study that there was.
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  Speaker 4: A I don't remember who did it, but I should
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  Speaker 4: have wrote my source down, but there was when group
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  Speaker 4: of five teams upset Power conference teams.
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  Speaker 3: So there are.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty two of these games, and so obviously these are
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  Speaker 4: the games that they were big upsets. So they're big game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the world of college football notable games,
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  Speaker 4: the winning underdog team had a plus one point one
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  Speaker 4: four average turnover margin. They converted fourth downs at seventy
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  Speaker 4: two percent versus only forty percent. They had a seventy
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  Speaker 4: percent red zone touchdown rate versus the favorite had a
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  Speaker 4: fifty four percent. The third mediums underdogs had a fifty
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  Speaker 4: one percent conversion rate versus thirty one percent. So like,
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  Speaker 4: obviously these are the ones that there were upsets in,
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  Speaker 4: but those kind of tell you some of those scenarios
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  Speaker 4: and situations that I think are are are all on there.
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  Speaker 4: Your big plays, if you want to call them. There
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  Speaker 4: wasn't much data and stats around your first and ten
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  Speaker 4: you get a four yard game, right, I mean, those
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  Speaker 4: could be in the explosive.
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  Speaker 3: Category, right, But these big.
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  Speaker 4: Plays that impact the game, I think are our our key,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you're when you're the underdog, and we will
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  Speaker 4: be probably in several games this year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, when I think of impact plays for the most part. Again,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it's just because I started talking about Troy Daniel
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  Speaker 5: any money and how we're just been in the in
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  Speaker 5: the tank the last ten years. But I just think
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  Speaker 5: of the back breaking like you know, we started with
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  Speaker 5: with the Ireland the on side kick that did not
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  Speaker 5: work out. And I think about against Iowa a couple
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  Speaker 5: of years ago when we had the ball and we
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: were in field goal range and Dilarro fumbled it in
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  Speaker 5: the red zone and Iowa had.
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  Speaker 6: Like one big pass and they kicked the field goal
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  Speaker 6: to win it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, those are which turnovers in the red zone
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  Speaker 5: gotta be up there.
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  Speaker 6: It does have to.
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  Speaker 4: Like I mean, like you said, as you're bringing them up,
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  Speaker 4: we've been on the negative side of I mean an
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  Speaker 4: unrealistic amount of negative big plays, which is again, why
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  Speaker 4: how many times have you heard people say, well, if
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  Speaker 4: you take out these five plays.
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  Speaker 6: We've done it so many times, like we've heard.
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  Speaker 3: That it's incredible.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think back to that three and nine the best
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  Speaker 4: three and nine team ever, like that was the name
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  Speaker 4: of that season. And so that's what this conversation really is.
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  Speaker 4: And and I think we we talk about like explosive plays,
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  Speaker 4: what does that mean you know, and how does that happen?
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  Speaker 4: So you know, sometimes I would say, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: luck involved on some of it, but like there's pressure
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  Speaker 4: that comes into play, Like we always say Nebraska can't
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  Speaker 4: play under pressure. It we can't handle the environment. But
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  Speaker 4: there's also technique that comes in. For example, on a
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  Speaker 4: sacking a quarterback, tackling a sacking a quarterback, there's technique two,
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  Speaker 4: get a strip sack to make a big play on
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  Speaker 4: there that that's part of technique that can end in
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  Speaker 4: a big play. So I guess, well, there's a fine line.
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  Speaker 4: But how much of what would you say is can
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  Speaker 4: you actually prepare for this big play situation versus it's
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  Speaker 4: just you know what happens and and.
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  Speaker 3: And it's bad luck.
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  Speaker 6: I think you can definitely prepare. I mean a lot
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  Speaker 6: of when you're talking.
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  Speaker 5: Like the explosive plays, this big plays downfield, those can
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  Speaker 5: be repeated in practice enough, and you just have to
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  Speaker 5: know when to bust them out. You know, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: they're defensive to this set. We've got our you know,
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  Speaker 5: this group out like this is you know they're going
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  Speaker 5: to catch this off guard or they're going to do
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  Speaker 5: is play action run, play action, play action and then
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  Speaker 5: we're just gonna hit up. You know, I definitely think
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  Speaker 5: that they can be prepared practice rehearsed. Turnovers are a
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  Speaker 5: little bit harder because that requires an error on the
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  Speaker 5: offensive side of which I think is harder to force
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  Speaker 5: than an error on the defensive side, just because there's
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  Speaker 5: you have more control. You know, Yeah, you can practice
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  Speaker 5: stripping them, but they're also practicing holding the ball, so
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's that's one of those things where you
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  Speaker 5: kind of balance each other out. But as far as
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  Speaker 5: like big explosive plays, especially like special teams, last year
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  Speaker 5: we saw just bringing in a new head coach or
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: a new special teams coach, what kind of impact that
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  Speaker 5: can have on big impact on impact plays where you know,
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  Speaker 5: Kenneth Williams, we were we were freaking taking the ball.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's like, oh, it turns out we give
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  Speaker 5: ourselves more opportunities to do so we practice it this way,
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  Speaker 5: you know, all all year, we're gonna we're gonna get
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  Speaker 5: some return.
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  Speaker 4: And and another big coach cliche that you hear all
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  Speaker 4: the time, players have to make plays or I mean
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  Speaker 4: not even coaches, fans. At some point your players gotta
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: go out and make plays.
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  Speaker 3: So when when I hear.
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  Speaker 6: That, like.
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  Speaker 3: The question is how you?
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  Speaker 4: And then so I think there's four things I guess
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  Speaker 4: here in my mind. One A big piece is recruiting
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  Speaker 4: and developing that talent, Like you have to have the
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  Speaker 4: talent to go make plays. If you don't have players
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  Speaker 4: that they're not gonna be able to make plays, they're
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: not capable of it because they're not good enough.
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  Speaker 3: So, whether that's obviously.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: In the recruiting or portal or developing them too, you
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: gotta rep the crap out of it and put them
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: in that situation whatever your big play situation is so
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: many times that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: On Saturday, it's not the first time you're gonna see it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Three, don't give them seven or eight things to think
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: about and come out standpoint given one or two things.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Coaching wise, when you go out there, it's simple, here's
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: your job, here's your assignment. And then four, they need
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: to have confidence, and that goes back to a couple
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of the other things. But you have to be able
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: to say when you go out there, you're not thinking
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: they know I've done this block, I've made this throw,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I've ran this route, I've kicked this ball.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: One hundred to one thousand times without thinking, and you're
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: not going out there and especially on road games and
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: letting the pressure get to you, and you can just
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: go out and then you can make a play and
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: who knows what happens. So like.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: To me, those are some simple things.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: And I know those are all coach speak, right, and
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: you think, well, every coach in the entire country is
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: doing this right, aren't they? Well maybe to an extent,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: But how you go about doing that and your way
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: of doing those four things is very big, I think
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: and doing it and I think number one of the
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: most important thing is you got to have the players.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: And at Nebraska we've I think said we've had the
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: players from a media standpoint, do we actually have the players?
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know, especially this year. Do we have who's
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: our players? This year?
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: You're gonna say Clamdrey is our quarterback? But you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: is he in Is he a top five Big ten quarterback?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: We hope?
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: So?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Is he.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: A wide receiver? Room? Definitely?
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: And you know they're they're talking to the talk of
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: oh are running back room? We're good, these guys are
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: We're not going to miss a beat. But it's you know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: there's a difference between Emma Johnson, who's probably gonna get
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: some real reps in the NFL, and Asia have Moozie who's.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Probably not I had the guests right now in his career.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: He's young. I could be.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Wrong, but but that's fine. Those guys it can still
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: work out for them in college.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: You know, Yeah, I.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Totally agree with the players and putting them in a position,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: and yeah, you have to a lot of that is
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: coaching them on the basics, not even on the explosivesness,
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: but it's like, hey, this way they don't have to
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: think about catching and tucking the ball like that's automatic.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Fundamentals.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the fundamentals, they're not thinking about that.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: They're just they're that part that gives them the opportunity
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: to think about how to take advantage of the situation.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: And I'd say most teams.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Do have players who are capable of it because they're
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: just crazy. It's just you know, D one college athletes
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: are just crazy athletics. So it's just I think, I
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: honestly do you think it's a lot goes down to
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: coaching and the scheme. You know, there there are certain
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: offensive systems.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: That just allow for.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: You know, I think in the NFL, there's just some
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: offensive coordinators that the way that they scheme and the
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: amount of times the amount of shots that they take,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: eventually that you do you'll break through. And it's like, okay,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: so I guess, you know, is it more important to
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: keep taking the shots and then eventually breakthrough or this
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: consistent the io approach where you're just consistently crying until
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: the other team has the negative impact play.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I think those are kind of my mind how I
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: think about it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Rarely are they both on the same team, because that
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: requires different game management.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad you brought that up because it kind
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: of goes to my next point. Like the like you said,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: the opposite side is the plays that lose games. So
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: we're you know, we were talking about how to create explosive,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: game changing positive plays. The other side of it is
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: how to have enough discipline to not have turnovers catastrophic penalties.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: You know, having a five yard fall start on first
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: and ten is not good, right, but but.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: When you have a hold on a thirty five yard
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: run that's on the back side, that's catastrophic, or someone
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: drills somebody out of bounds after a third down stop
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: that's terrible. Throwing a pick in the end zone in
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the turn, you know, it's horrible. So like the other
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: side of it is how do you coach without making
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: guys timid and giving them some freedom? That that's the
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: other side of it, because if you if you if
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: you are to play it safe right, then then you don't.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: So this it actually goes down to what you what
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: you just said, You know, would you rather have an
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: aggressive team that you know occasionally crosses the line, is
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: gonna make some mistakes, but you know boom and bust
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: or a mistake free team that really has negative plays.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: But like you know, your eye was, I guess what
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: what word do you lean on that scale? And where
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: do you think we are at?
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: That's what I was gonna say. I don't know where
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: we're at.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: I think we're trying to do both and it doesn't
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: work because, like you know, they're not complimentary of each
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: other's approaches.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I think what I identity.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Identity, My preference is probably more the I'm fine with
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: the mistakes as long as our as long as we
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: have our booms and our breaks, you know, I'm fine
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: with that. Probably this is we haven't had the boos.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: We just took the breaks. You know, it's like it's
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: gotta work. I'm totally fine like taking a ton of
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: shots and just just hammering defense of like, hey, you know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: we're gonna freaking do this until you guys give up
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: and it and it just has to work. Sometimes it
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: doesn't a lot of times it hasn't.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: You know where I said, I I like Iowa, so
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I want to be a mistake free team that just
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: grinds things out and wins it ugly. I have a
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: feeling where we're heading this year is we're moving towards
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: the boom and bust. I mean, that's what Anthony Calandery
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: is by definition of what we know of him.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: And you're the I mean they've been saying on defense, hey,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: we're gonna be fat violent, which that's.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: What you do when.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: You're and so you know, you're right, you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: The caveat to all that is is And I don't
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: even I don't.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say in the past that we've necessarily tried
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to be an aggressive.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Team.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: May I mean, maybe you can say we have, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: you're right that, like we've just had so many big
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: negative plays and it's gotten better but I think we
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: had to get over this like really horrible catastrophic mistakes
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: to get the mistake free.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: And we've gotten a lot better at that.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: But then there now, now we're at the point of
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: this journey that we're on of Okay, we've've eliminated a
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: lot of the negative stuff. You know, we're not hitting
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: guys out of bounds late anymore, We're not we're not
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: snapping balls over our heads on punts and kicks. Like
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: we've gotten rid of some of the catastrophic mistakes, but
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: we have zero explosivity.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: We have zero playmakers.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: And so now we're gonna kind of heeter and go
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: over that and say all right, let's let's let's have
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: some big boom plays.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: My worry is.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: That that's going to lead back now to more of the
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: negative place because we're going we're hopefully we didn't forget
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: about all the negatives.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about turnovers. Turnovers have gotten.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Better, way better, way better.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: But if you now, if you're if you're installing more
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: of this aggressive let's go make play system or this
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: turnovers is gonna jump back in. And as I was
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: talking to Jackson, He's like, well, yeah, but that's just
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: a natural course. I'm like, it is the natural course
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: of football. You're gonna have turnover, You're not gonna prevent
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: We can't be a top twenty team in the nation.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: In turnovers again.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: And that's what we were, and that's what I think
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: we've gotten away from, you know, by playing the.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Way we are. But now we don't have any explosivity.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: So it is is just a fine line.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: And that goes all the way back to our philosophy
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: and identity of what you said, who are we and
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: and what what does that?
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: What does that mean? We don't know?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Like and that's part of the problem. And so if
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: we're bouncing around again to trying something new to give
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: us hope, to give the fans and media hope, Like
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: where are we?
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know that? Like that's where we're heading I
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: think this year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: In my mind.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll be.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Completely wrong come two Saturdays from now, but that's where
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I think we are.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: We're like Mulan, you know, and she's looking in the
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: in the reflection, She's like, who you know, who am I?
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Who who am I?
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm probably lying a little more with Jackson and
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: the statement of yeah, I understand that turnovers are going
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: to happen, but do agree.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: We just can't.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I like to get calculated risk, and I'm fine with
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: the occasional risk failing, but you gotta win more than
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: you fail.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: And and I'll go back in that same frame of mind.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Here's another one that I know is going to happen
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: because people want it, and we're gonna see it.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Is your jacout calculated risks.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Right, when's the best time to take a shot down
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: field and throw a vertical pass to one of our receivers. Right,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: it's gonna happen sometime after we get a first down,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: and then on first and ten we chuck one.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Deep and we get an incomplete pass.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: And you are going to hear the mopes and groans
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: of everybody because that that obviously second and one is
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: probably the best time.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: To do that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Well, then if we do that and don't get a
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: first out, let's not go second in one. Let's even
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: go like second and two or two Right, that's the
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: one where you're like, okay, second and short, Well, we
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: take the shot on downfield.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Nope, now it's third and two.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: We get a half of yard game, and now it's
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: fourth and two and we punt. And the thing is, well,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: we would have just ran it twice on second on
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: second and two, we would.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Have gotten the first down.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Well that that that right there is your dilemma as
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: a coach and what you're what you're getting paid for,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: and where your identity comes down. Are you a shot
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: team on second and two? Are you a play action
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: team on second and two? Or you believe in just run, run,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: run like that? That is that's the give and take
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: that we're talking about here.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: That it's like, you know we want you want the
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: mobile quarterback, but you know Calander is gonna take a
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: run out of the pocket and he's gonna get clocked
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: and he's gonna he's gonna fumble the ball in the
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: run because he's not he's not gonna be sure he's
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: gonna hold, he's not even sure he's gonna pass or run.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: He's gonna kind of wish washing between it and he's
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: gonna take off and he's gonna he's gonna lose it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Like that's just gonna happen. But it's like, well, if
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: you want a mobile quarterback, they tend to fumble the
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: ballimore because they're they're holding it more, you know, they're
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: they're moving with it. So yeah, yeah, they're totally right
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: that people. People just want they want every every play
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: to be positive.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: They want.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: And this is this is where this is where you're
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: differing opinions of identity from everybody in the state of
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Nebraska and the nation on Nebraska fans have their own
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: vision in a picture of what they want because what
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: we've been trying to do has been this random, oscillating
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: scale of going this way, this way, this way several
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: years and none of it's really worked right since since
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: the nineties and early two thousands like that. Those those
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: were the but that's that's what's frustrating, is that's what
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: worked at one time. So then you have the fans
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: that say, well, then why don't we do that because
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: that actually work. Everything else we've tried hasn't. So you
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: have everybody and that's why as a coach, it's your
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: job then to come in and say this is what
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I believe I want to do and this is going
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: to win us games.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Well, then you better win games.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: With it, because if you don't win games, this conversation
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: just continues until the next coach, until the next coach,
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: and that's.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: That's where we're at.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: So like again, we've kind of jumped back into the
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: identity conversation. But part of this explosive, explosive plays, these
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: big plays, it is in that and I think we've
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: we've gotten better at not allowing the catastrophic negatives to
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: cost us games. But it's still happening. It still happens,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: but we're we're kind of getting over that hump, which
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: is good. So now we're trying to turn the next page.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Let's hope it continues to be good. Otherwise we're going
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: to be right back to where we were three four
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: years ago and.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Asking the same questions that we have been for twenty years.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I don't know, I don't know what
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: to think anymore, but you're right, we just well the
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: identity what you got. I'm interested to see said it's
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: another year with the new face, defensive coordinator. Interested to
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: see how that shakes out. I think I have an
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: idea of what our offensive identity wants to be with
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: the Calandria.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: Pick up.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: And kind of where we were with TJ LA Tive,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: but I don't know how it all, how it all
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: marries out.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: And and I guess you you hope that with Dana
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: and maybe some.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: New coaches, right, Like, but Matt rules evaluation of talent
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: and players that he wants has not been great since he's.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Been in Nebraska.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: So like, you know, you can make an assumptions as
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: to why or what we're doing with the players we
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: brought in. I think a lot of that obviously falls
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: on the head coach or will fall in the head coach,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: But your assistants are a very big part of that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: And when that's changing, that's what can give you hope
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: and say, well, now we have the right assistance helping
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: him evaluate the right people, the right system to fit.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Into what you want to do.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: So and you know his first like it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: This is the year where we should see some of
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: those guys that he's gotten and developed, right because the
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: first year it's like, well, he was out of the sport,
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: His recruiting class was a little more I'm going to
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: guess shoddy. But this should be the year that's like,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: all right, you've had three this is what you've been telling.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: Us, This is you this, these are your people, your
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: players that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: You wanted here yep, and and whatever you decided your
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: identity and philosophy was to fit that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: This is what you this is what you brought it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: So that's and that's what happens with every a lot
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: of coaches that year three four like that that that
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: that that everybody knows. You can make as many excuses
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: as you want, like you said and year one and two,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: but you're three four. Nope, don't give me excuses about
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: the schedule. This is what you prepared for in the
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: big ten.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: This is you. So go out and show us.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: You can still go.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: They said, going in four the years, that's great, Like,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: that's fine. I think people would be thrilled to go
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: even four this year.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: And it's not.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: It's not unmanageable, but it's also it's also reasonable would
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: go four and eight like or five and eight.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: And you just got it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: You have to be competitive in the big games that
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: you can't no more forty two to three in style
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: or whatever.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: I don't remember what we did.
• 33:55
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• 34:04
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