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Single-Digit Significance · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Okay, SHAWNA. So we have essentially twelve days with schools
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  Speaker 1: starting today. They're pretty much in Game week, although they'll
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  Speaker 1: do a little bit of unusual stuff this week before
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  Speaker 1: they get into Classic Game Week. But I have to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about this idea that we assign digital single
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  Speaker 1: digit numbers. Now, I think it's a gimmick. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: what this means and how this makes us better and
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  Speaker 1: will this result in wins?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's something that Matt Rule has done since his
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  Speaker 2: Temple days, where the players all vote for who they
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  Speaker 2: feel are like the ten toughest, kind of most deserving
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  Speaker 2: guys that represent what they want the program to be.
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  Speaker 2: And he brought it with them here, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: four of the numbers are already occupied. One of them though,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Bits and Shavers got a couple of years
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  Speaker 2: ago because I believe it was Jamari Butler didn't want
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  Speaker 2: or he didn't want, they switched numbers, so he took
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  Speaker 2: over number nine one. So that was always something Huscar
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  Speaker 2: fans brought up, like, well, a guy can switch with
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  Speaker 2: one of them, but he I think he ended up
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  Speaker 2: actually earning one the next year. But yeah, there's six
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  Speaker 2: of those available numbers left the figure Anthony Owen Chambells
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  Speaker 2: is going to get one, maybe Anthony Calandria and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I think if you're winning and things
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  Speaker 2: are rolling, people are like, it's pretty cool. But obviously
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  Speaker 2: the way last year, any Husker fans don't like anything
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  Speaker 2: right now, but until as winning games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the idea, it's you know, there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a fine line between promoting uniqueness in the program because
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  Speaker 1: that's a recruiting tool and doing gimmicks to get people
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  Speaker 1: to think things are what they aren't. Uh, And I
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  Speaker 1: guess I'm okay with that. If the players vote on it.
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  Speaker 1: The players vote, they're the ones who decide, Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: guy over here has been killing it in practice. This
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  Speaker 1: guy over here is really really leading in the weight
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  Speaker 1: room and offseason conditioning, and that's the kind of person
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  Speaker 1: we want to follow into battle. But they also assigned cappains,
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  Speaker 1: and it used to be the players voted on captains,
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  Speaker 1: and that process has sort of have been hijacked over
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  Speaker 1: the years. Sometimes we let the coaches decide. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 1: decide on a week to week basis, And I guess
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  Speaker 1: captains are going to get chosen this week. Are the
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  Speaker 1: players voting for them or is this a coach call.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually not yet determined if they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have captains permanent captains. And it's kind of the new trend,
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  Speaker 2: not the nutriment, but people have gone this direction now
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  Speaker 2: more that you just let you do week to week captains.
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  Speaker 2: You let things play out. I mean, perfect example, last year,
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  Speaker 2: markis Buford was a captain, Dylan Royle obviously was a captain.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Key, who kind of fizzled off as the year
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  Speaker 2: went on, was a captain who was not a captain.
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  Speaker 2: Emma Johnson who had this team late in the year
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  Speaker 2: on the field. So sometimes you can trap yourself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: anointing a guy as a captain before the war starts
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, you get into the season and
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  Speaker 2: things changed a little bit. So Matt Ruhle said last
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  Speaker 2: year was the first time in his coaching career that
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  Speaker 2: he has ever elected Seaton long captain. You know who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't do that, Indiana. Indiana doesn't do they did, They
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  Speaker 2: do it week to week and you know, for you know,
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  Speaker 2: for Mano Mendozo was a transfer so you didn't really
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  Speaker 2: get to know him, but that by midyear you realize
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  Speaker 2: this guy is the leader of our team. So I
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  Speaker 2: would not be surprised if they just go back to
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  Speaker 2: the week to week captain format this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and in the year twenty twenty six. That seems
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  Speaker 1: like the way to go because in the olden days,
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  Speaker 1: when the players elected a captain, it was always a
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  Speaker 1: fifth year senior or a three year starter, or somebody
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  Speaker 1: that had been through the battles and had delivered through
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  Speaker 1: the battles, and you never really, you never really had
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  Speaker 1: a problem with them because they truly deserved it and
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  Speaker 1: they wore that in like a you know, like a
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  Speaker 1: badge of honor, and that was always sort of important.
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  Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter of tight ballgames. What about the scrimmage?
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  Speaker 1: Give us your impressions of what you got out of
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  Speaker 1: the scrimmage from the players and coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred and ten plays. And now they roll
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  Speaker 2: in the regular school mode. Now classes begin to day.
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  Speaker 2: They'll introduce Ohio Prep starting Thursday this week, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: have you know. They're back to the afternoons too. They're
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  Speaker 2: not going to do morning practices anymore. That eight years
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  Speaker 2: and mornings are over. They're they're switching back to the
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  Speaker 2: afternoon practices starting this week with classes beginning. But it
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  Speaker 2: was a clean scrimmage. I think turnovers were not an issue.
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  Speaker 2: According to Matt Rule again that these things are highly
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  Speaker 2: closed down. I mean parents aren't even allowed in any
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  Speaker 2: more of the players to watch, so it you know details.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Rule has done a very good job of kind
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  Speaker 2: of keeping a very toned down approach just when speaking
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  Speaker 2: about this football team. And you know what he saw
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  Speaker 2: in the scrimmage. I mean you just didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot out of him Saturday as far as the
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  Speaker 2: fine details.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Seana, we'll talk to you on Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll have every day Huskarbas reports starting on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: but Monday, Wednesday, Friday for the rest of this week.