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Rule, Barney's Status for Maryland · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: The 1110 KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief Husker Buzz Edition.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Callahan made it back from East Lansing. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the easiest thing in the world. You, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, I saw this on Facebook, were trying to
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  Speaker 1: either come back from Chicago or fly in or have
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  Speaker 1: a flight connecting at O'Hare, and you all got held
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit because Air Force One came through
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  Speaker 1: there for the golf tournament in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, luckily we had a long way over built that
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  Speaker 2: was going to be in O'Hare, and we just ended
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  Speaker 2: up spending most of it in Detroit. So we were
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  Speaker 2: about an hour late getting home. But O'Hare Airport, around
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  Speaker 2: 5 o'clock or around that time in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the day yesterday, was not a pretty place to be.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of stranded travelers as Air Force One sat
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  Speaker 2: on the main runway of O'Hare Airport.
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  Speaker 1: Brant Snedeker is the captain of the U.S. President's Cup
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  Speaker 1: team that came from behind to beat the international team
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  Speaker 1: in the singles matches yesterday. And Trump was out there
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  Speaker 1: and he said, well, President Trump said he was going
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  Speaker 1: to come here and provide us the spark we needed
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  Speaker 1: to win. And so I got to give him credit
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  Speaker 1: for helping the guys win. And I just thought, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: Brant Snedeker just got canceled. But no matter that, Sean Callahan,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk football. You made it out to East Lansing.
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  Speaker 1: The Huskers, who previously... In these games where we should win,
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  Speaker 1: on paper we should win, we have a lead in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and then we find a way to lose.
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  Speaker 1: That script has been ripped up and thrown away to
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  Speaker 1: this point. What did you like about the Huskers' performance
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  Speaker 1: against Michigan State on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, these were the type of games that we've seen
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska struggle to win in recent years. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: haven't won in East Lansing since 2012, kind of for
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  Speaker 2: full context. But what I liked, number one, was the
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  Speaker 2: way the defense just rose up when they needed to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they had the six sacks coming off a
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  Speaker 2: week where they had five against North Dakota, so 11
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  Speaker 2: sacks now, two games, but they forced three turnovers, and
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  Speaker 2: they made the plays. Michigan State got desperate to the
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  Speaker 2: point where they were running up-tempo, and they never have
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  Speaker 2: done that before because they didn't have an answer early
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  Speaker 2: in the game, and they threw a wrinkle just to
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  Speaker 2: try to do something, and it worked for getting the
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  Speaker 2: ball to the 20-yard line. But once you got in
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  Speaker 2: the red zone, I loved how Nebraska's defense rose up.
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  Speaker 2: We saw Andrew Marshall get an interception in the red zone.
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  Speaker 2: We saw Donovan Jones force that fumble, and we saw
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  Speaker 2: Owen Chambliss get the pick, along with just some of
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  Speaker 2: the different pressure looks. But offensively, they weren't at their
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  Speaker 2: best because Jamal Rule left the game early. Ja'Cory Barney
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  Speaker 2: was out of the game early as well. And both
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  Speaker 2: guys they think will be okay moving forward. But they
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  Speaker 2: were down a couple of their big pieces early, And
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Calandria was able to kind of gut that thing.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw Vince Genitone, a walk-on from North Platte,
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  Speaker 2: who had been playing scout team and moved over. And
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  Speaker 2: he's their backup short yardage running back for Jamal Rule.
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  Speaker 2: Scored two touchdowns in that game. Amazing effort by Vince
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  Speaker 2: Genitone stepping up in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And Coach Rule gave him the game ball, didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was given the game ball in the locker
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  Speaker 2: room and He's one of the best athletes on the team.
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  Speaker 2: This is not like a Rudy story, as Matt Rule
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  Speaker 2: said after the game. He runs 10-5 in the 100,
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  Speaker 2: has the longest broad jump at over 11 feet, a
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  Speaker 2: 40-plus inch vertical. He was a two-time state wrestling champion
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  Speaker 2: in Class A, a 10-500 meter guy. Phenomenal athlete that
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  Speaker 2: just kind of had to wait his time. This is
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  Speaker 2: the political system of being a walk-on. He's played special
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  Speaker 2: teams before. But all the metrics say he's a good
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  Speaker 2: football player. He just never got his chance to be
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  Speaker 2: a football player until Saturday at East Lansing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what? I like Makai Nelson. I
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  Speaker 1: really think he's a good running back. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that's going way out on a limb. The guy just
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  Speaker 1: runs over people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he finished with 60 yards. Calandria led the Huskers
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  Speaker 2: with 66 yards. Most of those rushing yards for Calandra
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  Speaker 2: came on scramble plays, where the pass play broke down.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they didn't have last year. The play broke down.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Raiola just was not capable of being a runner.
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  Speaker 2: We know Dylan Raiola is a good quarterback, too. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: look what he did this weekend for Oregon, coming off
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  Speaker 2: the bench for Dante Moore. But Nebraska needs the mobility
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  Speaker 2: factor just to complete their offense, and we saw that
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  Speaker 2: with Calandria. Especially when Jamal Rule went down, they needed
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  Speaker 2: another guy to step up. He was able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: That final drive as well ate up a lot of clock.
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  Speaker 2: It was the knockout blow to Michigan State. That place
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  Speaker 2: is empty. By the second half, their students cleared out
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  Speaker 2: of there.
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  Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. I felt bad for him. Jamal Rule, ankle.
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  Speaker 1: tweak Ja'Cory Barney, what's going on with him, and are
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  Speaker 1: these guys going to be gutting it out and risking
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  Speaker 1: further injury against Maryland? Is it better maybe to hold
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  Speaker 1: them out and wait for Indiana? What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, I don't know the specific injury on Ja'Cory Barney,
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  Speaker 2: but I was told last night that they just needed
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  Speaker 2: to get back here and get treatment in the facility,
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  Speaker 2: and The good news is Nebraska's home the next two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so they're going to be around all their medical resources
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  Speaker 2: and all the things they need to get right. I
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  Speaker 2: would be stunned if it's long-term. Maybe one of the
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  Speaker 2: guys misses this week. We'll see. Maryland kind of comes
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  Speaker 2: in as a mess right now. They lost 54-3 to UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lockley is still employed, which I'd say that's probably
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. You don't want to have an interim
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  Speaker 2: coach randomly be coming in and you're not really prepared
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  Speaker 2: for what he's going to do. So Mike Loxley will
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  Speaker 2: come in with a very hot seat to Lincoln. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Sean, thank you so much. We'll talk again tomorrow. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Scott.