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Episode 5.33: Michigan St Recap & Nebraska Basketball Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turn the Glory podcast, Hutters Arbadig Yostin, Rose to God to Freetag,
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Tuskers Fall to Sparti in East Lansing twenty to seventeen. I legit just got
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home like ten minutes ago. But boy, was at a blast. Guys.
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I apologize. I know I need to stop going to road games.
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Everyone that I go to we just continue to lose. Yeah, you should
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stop that. I don't get any benefit from it. Well that means we're
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going bowling, because I'm not going to Wisconsin. There you go. I've
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go my bowling shirts already bought. Wearing him next week. Oh, Michigan
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State was at blast. The people there were awesome. I love the setup
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they have. Their campus is huge, but all of their bars and restaurants
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and places are right on campus. We stayed in airbnb about half hour away
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and it was awesome there too. Everybody was just very nice. Everybody,
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I mean everybody that we talked to. When we said good luck tomorrow,
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They're like, yeah, we're gonna get her ass kicked. You guys are
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gonna kill us. We're not very good anyways, We're horrible. It was
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just that it was so funny to be the team going on the road and
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everybody's like, you guys are gonna kick her ass. Has never happened really
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to me in my life. And clearly, like I going into that game,
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knew it was gonna be a battle, knew it was gonna be a
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close game. But they've lost six straight, right, so they were defeated.
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Their season was over, and I mean as a result, the stadium
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was like, I don't know, a little over half filled. Well,
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but the announcer said, he's like, man, I'm really impressed with how
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many State fans showed out. What was he looking at? Who was No,
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I don't remember who it was, but they were not good. It
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wasn't good. I can't remember either. I will say that some of the
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Michigan State guys around us were saying that they were surprised the student sections showed
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up as much as they did, and I was too. I mean,
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it was filled it. I guess I think that probably helped. But we
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I mean, our tickets were in like the visiting section. We were five
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rows from the top. Their stadium is really neat, uh, Like the
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sides aren't as tall than that, or the enm zones aren't as tall but
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the two sidelines are pretty big. They go up quite a ways. But
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we were up towards the top behind the goalpost, and like halfway through the
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first quarter, we're like, we're gonna go sit eight rows up at forty
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yard line like because nobody's there. So right, like, we sat there
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and then there's nobody in the row behind us or front. I mean,
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we had all the room we wanted to basically stood right outside the exit where
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we could go get as many beers as we wanted. Bathroom are right there.
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It's perfect setup. It was great to watch you as. Yeah,
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if we had won the game, it would have been a great, perfect
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trip, but I didn't even expect it, So, I mean that would
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have been icing on the cake. I'm just used to driving back on Sunday
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losing, and that's what happened. So I will say the fact that we
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were only a three point favorite and they had lost six in a row,
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and you know, that's not the most confident boosting like that we were going
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to go out there and kill them. Yeah it was. It was very
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telling, and I think from an expectation standpoint, and there's no reason for
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us to expect that in any of these game games that we're going to run
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out, go out there and beat them, unless you, you know,
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pick us for the lack of a lifetime. I guess maybe then you think
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that did that? You know, I don't know, Dak, but you've
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ever just stopped doing that because your record's not great. I think the ship
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out of it. So yeah, it's your fault, not my fault.
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It's all your fault. Oh no, I was popping the champaign on Friday
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night already for you guys. I was ready. It was over in my
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mind before they get kicked off. Well was that wrong? Yeah? So
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was that ou game to last? Beblum? You know what, should we
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just get into it? How about these rafts? For the love of god.
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You know, if I if I go to my job and I don't
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work, I get fired. These guys don't real ship, and you know
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what, they'll keep their job. Fire them. That's both those games awful,
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Dak. I want to argue what what you raphic job was worse?
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I mean Oklahoma, I'd say Nebraska is the whole game was worse. But
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Oklahoma lost the game because of a non call like that pass interference. How
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do you not both of them. I guess how do you not call either
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of those? I don't know which past inference is the worse miss. Yeah,
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that those were both crazy. I thought I thought that they were both
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pretty insane. With the refs standing right there, do you why? I
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guess why? My question is why, why do you think it's getting worse?
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Is there a reason behind it? Or like it blows my mind like
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that face mask the ref is standing right there and heartbroke and something. He's
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like, dude, do you see that? The rep shaking his head.
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No, like what what do you what do you mean? No, that's
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what you're supposed to look at. Yeah, I don't. I don't get
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it, Like unless they're just trying to like they have to be trying to
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miss those calls. You can't just you can't miss those without it's crazy.
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So this ref, when we saw who we had at the game, I
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know this guy is the stepping ref. He's the one his feeder like touching
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it before, he like points his direction after he makes the call. He
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always stepped with this call. That's who I know. The guy asthma and
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I know he's not like a very good ref. Like when I say good,
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I mean consistent. I think, first of all, guess coaching staff
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never once blames the refs or talks about him, and they completely defer the
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question. And I love that. I love every bit about that. That
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is the one big no no that we all know that we've talked about on
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this podcast the past few years. We don't. You never lose games because
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of the ref ultimately just doesn't happen. Now that being said, there were
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calls that were missed, clearly, and you can point that out. I
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mean, Dean Blamedo came on the end of the game at the end of
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the game and talked about a couple of them. Obviously you look at Twitter
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and blinds. I mean, it just it's absolutely absurd, how many people
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And that's you know, that's the headline and coming from the game. The
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coaching staff needs to do a great job of just blocking all that out,
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you know, and keep focusing on getting it better, because that's that is
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the classic fan thing to do and blame the officials And yeah, we're there
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calls missed, yes, but as a fan of any team, you're always
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going to be blinded by the other side and not see it both ways.
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I can, Yes, Nebraska fans, you go on there. Yeah,
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there were several calls that you can clip and point out and say that we
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didn't lose the game because of the calls. We lost the game because we
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turned it over three times. Well that, but what I'm saying is the
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other side had missed calls or calls that if you were a fan of the
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other team, you'd say these officials were horrible ones. I can think about
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the bat, the roughing, they're the running into the kicker like that easily
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could have been roughing. The Now I guess at the game, I think
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some Husker fans are like, what but it I mean, we took out
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the kicker. There was a hit out of bounds that we clearly should have
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got called for fifteen yard penalty based on the game. What I'm saying is
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before that catch that they called the catch that really probably wasn't a catch,
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the ball hit the ground for their touchdown. There were like four consecutive plays
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that the Michigan State fans were just irate at in the stadium because we got
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calls for them. And again, whatever fan base or what side you're on,
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you're going to be upset. There's going to be miss calls. Good
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officials limit that in are consistent and don't you might miss a couple, but
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these guys in this game, they consistently missed calls, and that that's what
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upsets you. And you only see the one side and you think, oh,
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you got screwed. Well, it goes both ways. They're not out
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to get anybody. That's not the reason why anything. Regardless, they didn't
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do a great job. If Michigan State fans were also upset and they were
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ready correct, correct, and and you know, look at the penalties,
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right, Michigan State had seven penalties. We had zero. So I mean,
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look at it from that stands to you if you're a Husker fan that
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happened, think about everything you'd be seeing on Twitter if it was flip flopped.
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How horrible the officials were left and right because they had We had some
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penalties and they had zero. I mean, that's just the nature of being
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a fan. Now to the point of the officials, I don't know missing
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calls. I do think this is happening. I don't know that they've gotten
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that much worse. It's that technology has gotten that much better on instant replay
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and being able to slow things down and look at all the different angles.
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Every year it gets better, more high depth, and so that just maximizes
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when you're missing calls. And then you bring in when do you go to
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review plays? Obviously, the Harvard incomplete slash fumble play towards the end of
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the game, like that, that is weird. That was like on TV.
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It was just so weird because it looked so obvious to be a forward
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pass and even like the announcers were kind of caught off guard. They're like,
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are we not gonna review that? They're like, that's that's the game.
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I guess it happened so fast there too, because I thought I thought
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from what I saw, I thought the guy just knocked the ball backwards out
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of his hands and are his arm what wasn't moving forward? Happened so quick
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it was like gotta go, gotta go, gotta go. And yeah,
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I guess if you stop the clock there, I assume there's no tech ten
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second runoff. I don't. I wouldn't think so, but it's like all
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that stuff. The officials are like, it's going so fast you don't stop
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and the game's over and it I don't know. It's just weird that situations
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like that happened. The game management type of plays right, And it just
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felt like these officials in our game were constantly trying to make up for the
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call that was missed before. For example, the face mask on Harvard that
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happened the drive right before that. I remember which one of our players went
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on their quarterback through a pass. We two hands shoved him to the ground.
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Could it have been roughing the passer? Could have been maybe? But
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the ref did the same thing he did to Harburg. He looked the quarterback
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got up and turned around. He just started shaking his head like this,
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like no, wasn't roughing the passer? Sure enough, next possession something happens
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to Harborg did the same thing. It's like he was making up for that
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call that got shit. I didn't call that on that quarterback up, not
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that crap. It's that mindset should never happen as a ref, and I
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think it does and it shouldn't. That's the mark you should double down on
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a mistake. Yes, if a call happens, it happens right. Like
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same thing with the holding and past interferences. I think the same guy had
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thrown a couple of different holding calls deep on them and then that play happens
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late. He's like a frick. I've called too many, you know,
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I shouldn't call another one. If it's past interference, past interference, throw
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the flag. So I just I think technology has made it worse. I
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do. And I've talked about this before with officials and refing and reviews.
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I don't think there should be any reviews at all, or you should.
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There should be an extensive amount of reviews, and especially in basketball, but
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football too. Like it, you leave the game to the human error and
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know that there's going to be human air. Just just know that, and
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people can get used to their being human air because the problem is what does
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look at the catch rule or the targeting run. Sometimes you can go back
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and over, we can go back and change it to the correct call.
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Sometimes we can't. Yeah, and there's so much gray area now on what's
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targeting? What? What? What? What is that? There's so much
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grayer and what's a catch? So now we don't even we don't know what
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a catch is. We don't, we don't. We still don't get that
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rule. But if you called it on the field, that is what it
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is like, is that a catcher or not. I don't know. They
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called it on the field this way, so that's what it's gonna be,
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So I don't know's it's obviously a fine line because the more reviews you have,
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then the longer the games are, and people complain about length of game
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time. But it is It's an aspect of the game that we really haven't
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talked about this year yet on the pod. We've kind of deferred those conversations,
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but this definitely was one that it's talked about a lot. After the
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game, I will say, but I don't It's not the reason why we
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lost by any means, and I'm glad the coaching staff is handling it the
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way they are publicly, but our fans obviously are doing what they always do
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with Yeah, any game where we have Henry Carberg throwing twenty eight passes,
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we're probably gonna lose. Just a hunch, Dak anymore efficient officiating comments otherwise
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we're gonna move on to Harvard. They well, okay, there's a couple,
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there's a couple of calls. I'm pissed off about that catch when they
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call that a catch. Dimino came on and he's like, he's like it's
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objective to the replay official. What the hell does that mean? It's subjective?
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Like what okay, anyway, I don't know what that what the hell
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is? It's the same thing watching the replay at the game. You watch
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it and we're like, no way, Like, there's no way that's a
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catch. It can't be. But then the guy next to Michigan State is
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an older guy. He's like, well, the ball doesn't move, and
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I'm like, you're right, rule, And as I'm watching, okay,
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maybe maybe it didn't move, and we're like, well they called it a
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touchdown on the field. Well yeah, so maybe they can. So it's
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like you go through that and you're like, well, where the hell did
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we get to? Like, it's is one of those things that by looking
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at it, I see what he's saying, like it is up to the
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official because it's what is it? What is it a catch? Is that
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a catch by rule? I don't know. Well, then there was there
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was one more last thing about the officials. One more who caught that last
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first down when they should have called that first down? That was wasn't it?
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Yeah? That was so over that first down marker. It wasn't even
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funny, but no second and one. Like I thought the same thing live
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too watching it. I said, first down, no second, but everything's
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going so fast. I didn't stop anything and just let it go. No,
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but it was just it's funny because it wasn't. It was everyone watching
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it. Even the announcers were like, all right, then they got the
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first down and they're lining up and they're like, oh wait, even like
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the TV. Did you watch it replay at all? Hunter? I haven't,
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but I saw that the screenshot the TV had moved the first down line
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like they had already reset behind, so it looked like a first down,
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especially because and then like as the play was going, they shifted the lines
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back. Oh are they gonna stop this clock or what it is? And
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stuff like that that you wonder how that stuff gets missed. I don't know.
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I'm not a yeah whatever. We lost the game because we had two
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interceptions, and Heiner Karberg through twenty eight times and they played well, but
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jumping on the high harbord here. That's that's topic number two that's getting talked
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about is him specifically. So I want to first mention the turnovers. Turnover
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one was a third and fifteen or seventeen and did we maybe have a couple
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of guys open on that play? I guess threw it down, got him
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inside the five. Is a punt, so I I like that one.
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I'm like whatever, because alternative there you run a draw for sixty yards and
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then you punt it and you probably well the way Bouchhine he punted, probably
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aren't getting it inside the five. So whatever. Second interception also, yes,
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I guess, I guess we're down, so you can say we're gonna
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be down in games, but we were also in urgent, urgent risk taking
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time because we're down ten with eight minutes to go. And yeah, the
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pass was not a good thrown fall he just airmailed it. And then obviously
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the fumble is the third one that is end of the game. So turnovers
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were there are three of them. Yes, one I'm not really counting because
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it's a punt, and then the other two are like, well, we
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were down, we're scrambling, right, It wasn't like we were missing.
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I'm not upset about the Heinrich, Like, I don't think this is Heinrich's
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fault. It's just if he's your quarterback and you're throwing twenty eight times,
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you're going to be in trouble. Yes, and that's so, Yeah,
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I agree with you. But here's the here's the thing with Harber. Everybody's
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like saying, like it's he's the problem. He's not the problem. I
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think it was more of a hit. We didn't play to his strengths.
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I mean, I think when you run him more than I mean he ran
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it fourteen times technically, but we just didn't run the ball well. And
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that's what our team's strength is. And when we can't run the ball well,
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Heinrich is not going to do well because that's what has to happen for
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him to perform well. And those are sacks. Yeah, he had the
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long scramble at the end that really end, and he had that he had
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the make three guys miss eighteen yard whatever it was early on to first down
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run. So like that, I'm with you that that was the one thing
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that I was frustrated. Play calling wise, we still don't run him enough.
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And Harber, for the people that are saying he's the problem, guys,
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you just I don't know what your expectation is for Nebraska quarterbacks because one
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theme the last goddamn hustard quarterback that people liked, like name, we don't.
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Maybe Taylor Martinez is probably right, Are you kidding me? Taylor t
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mart his freshman year? Yeah? Year, No, guys, Taylor Martinez
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left one of the most hated quarterbacks that we've had. Like the freshman year
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is the last time? That was the last time a quarterback we've Like,
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I'm excited for this guy. I think Tommy I think Tommy was somewhat liked
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at times, but again, like, it's always a quarterback, and what's
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our expectation, Guys? We saw Jeff Simms was our starter coming in the
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year. This was Heiner Carberg, our backup. Who we were I mean,
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I I'm like, there's no way this guy could be your quarterback.
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Like it's Heiner Carberg, right, what he's done and been able to win
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games for us has been InCred Why are we expecting him to be an elite
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quarterback in the Big twelve, the Big ten? Like there's not many to
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begin with, and how many hell how many elite quarterbacks are there in the
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goddamn country. Maybe ten, fifteen, Like we expect to get one of
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those guys right now? No, so I get it. Yeah, does
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he missthrows? Yes? Does he? Is he have accurate passes a lot
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yet sometimes but not all the time? Is he does? He look awkward
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sometimes back in the pocket, doesn't know how to elude rushers. But yeah,
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but that's what we got right now, and that's what that's what that's
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what we got to work with. Use his strengths. As the part I
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was upset about we did. We don't just have design QB runs a lot
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and let him go out and make plays. So I I don't that that
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frustrates me when people are so on Harburg and oh my god, he's so
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horrible. We need to get a better quarterback. Guys, I'm I agree.
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We need to go to the game. Well, we need to go
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to the transportal and try to get a new guy. That that's what the
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new age is. It's a new era. Do I think Harbor is the
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future of Nebraska football? No, Like he shouldn't be. But that's what
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we're working with here. And because your expectation of it should not be that
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high. That that's the frustrating part with it all. Like just relax and
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the guy's a leader, he's on the on the field. You watch it
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was tough, He encourages people. He's a freaking leader. You want to
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try Sims again, that is that what we want to do. People.
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You want to throw someone who can't throw the ball accurately and turns it over.
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Hims can't turn the right way after the snap if even catch. Just
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like I read, I read, fans win a party. I feel pretty
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out there. I heard and I guess it came down to it. But
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Harbor is not defeated. He's not out there like I suck. He is.
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He's competing, he's working his ass off, and he's not the best.
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He's no, he's not the best, most talent quarterback. He never
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will be. But we want to go out there that's gonna lead and encourage
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and and and do all the tangible stuff. That's what he is, that's
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what we have, and he's not yet. He makes mistakes like that's that's
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what's frustrating. I think here in my comparison with Harber that I kind of
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drew up is not a whole lot different than the Mickey Joseph situation. Mickey
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wasn't our head coach. Scott was our head coach. Mickey comes in.
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There's a little bit of burst of element of surprise, guys can rally behind
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him. Things look good. There's a question, Okay, Mickey, did
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we want Mickey for the future? Yeah, maybe not lose a couple of
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games, but still produces some Obviously, this is pre all of the scandal
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stuff that went down, but like, very similar to Mickey, Dude,
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did we want Mickey Joseph as the future head coach Nebraska's maybe? I don't
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know. Let's see what else we could look at. Let's see if we
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can find something else. And that's what we did with the scandal piece.
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But that's where Harbord's at. It's like he's around guys really, but now
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they know what he is. They're figuring out what he wants to do.
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They figure out his strength is weak. This is we need to find something
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else. But we got to get one more win with him. Yeah,
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we'll look in the transfer portal. It's I was just mostly and I mean
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the announcers, Oh my god, if I had to hear them say one
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more time, the Nebraska receivers aren't really helping out their quarterback here, Okay,
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we get it, Okay, because all I keep hearing is how open
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our receivers are from people, right, I know, I thought the same
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thing and live I'm like our receivers, I don't I don't know. I
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don't see them open much. And is that a product of them not having
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unique schemes or is that a product of them not being able to break down
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and make it hard cutting a route like it? Maybe is a lot of
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things. They have a young coach, obviously, we have a lot of
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injuries. Probably a lot of those things. Yeah, it was. Yeah,
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there's a lot of people out there just shitting on Heinrich, and I
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I'm not upset at Heinrich, not at all. The crazy crazy part is
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as bad as it looked. You still walked out of the day. If
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you went out, you win the Big Ten West. Also true, it
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is amazing as that is our situation to win the West really didn't change.
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Nope. I do want to help you, yes, and I do hope
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that people realize we still see to win one more game, because yeah,
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going to the Big Ten Championship would be neat, but we have to get
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to a bowl game. I mean that's what people are really after. And
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we lose out, you lose a lot of the momentum. Of the middle
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of season. That'd be very all that that that'd be a train wreck if
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you lost, because a lot of the good mojo that everyone's feeling about the
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program and its direction and what rules doing and the process. So you have
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to at least win one of her next three. And I don't. I
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don't feel like this game was much different. The way we played. Was
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our defense great? No, but it still played pretty good. We gave
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up big plays. That's what hurt us, and real said that in postgame
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like, that's what killed us. Where their their chunk plays they got.
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Was our offense good? No? Has our offense been good? No?
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Did they do anything different? No? They still it's the same team we've
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seen, Right, Michigan State just did a couple of things a little bit
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better. And on offense, Michigan State did what I think we need to
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do is have some of those creative plays that actually hit and are executed.
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Well. That's why Michigan State offense looked quote unquote better, was because they
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they were able to execute their trick plays or they call trick plays they're early
24:47
on in the game, hitting that tight end down the scene. Like they
24:49
were able to execute hit that play. We need to be able to do
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that a couple of times here to end the year on the offensive ends.
24:56
So we're trying to do a basketball preview year. So I have one more
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quick thought. I'm not going to add too much, only disappointing. One
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big disappointing part. I just thought, and they expected it and mentioned it
25:10
on the pod too. The away game road environment, early game sleepy Michigan
25:15
State fans were really, we're kind of quiet slow. We did not do
25:21
a great job of creating our own sense of urgency just from the get go.
25:26
I just thought our sideline just seemed a little quie. I don't think
25:29
the guys didn't play hard. They played hard and their effort was there.
25:32
It just we didn't seem like we have the we were fighting for our program
25:34
in our lives like we have been the past few games. So again,
25:40
don't don't expect that to continue. I think it just kind of is one
25:42
of those things. We won five of our last six, and not that
25:45
we were thinking we were pretty good, but we just kind of came in
25:48
there a little sleepy, I would say, and not as much sense of
25:52
urgency and got hit in the mouth early on which is what we saw in
25:57
that first quarter. So was my last comment thought on football because we got
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basketball. Anything else on next week, gotta go want to know this week,
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right dash, Yeah, I'm trying to watch the goals get tore down.
26:12
I'll tell you that we might do it. Who knows? All right,
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Nebrasketball Austin's twenty one and nine projected team, Let's go. I'm ready,
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man. I spent a lot a lot of road time reading and about
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previews and our players, and it got me pretty excited too. I'm not
26:37
gonna lie. Just just learning about these guys picking up from where we kind
26:42
of left off last year, and I kind of forgot about what happened towards
26:47
the end of the year. But guys, we won nine Big Ten games
26:49
last year. That was not not even close to being expected to what we
26:53
were supposed to do. And why that was. Hoiberg completely changed his identity
26:59
and his style to fit Big ten basketball. He adjusted, we gotta be
27:03
more defensive minded and focus, be able to get stops on defense, and
27:08
yeah, we don't have the talent right now, and to spread it out
27:12
and do the five out running gun threes like his style is known for.
27:18
We played more through a big and Derek Walker, Sam Grisol was a stud
27:22
at point guard, and it resulted in a lot better season. Missed barely
27:27
missed tournament for the Huskers, losing to Minnesota, was not great uh in
27:33
the Big Ten tournament, but finished off the year really strong, and I
27:38
think the pieces that we brought in here speaks to that new style that Fred
27:42
is trying to go off of. So it is exciting to look at our
27:47
schedule too, and some of these new guys that we got brought in.
27:49
I'm interested to see how we get started here tomorrow actually against the Linden.
27:56
Yeah, the big concern is health. Obviously, that's kind of what happened.
28:00
Actually, I think that was one of the bigger surprises, is what
28:02
we were able to do down the stretch with how healthy we works. We
28:04
had a lot of injuries last year. I totally agree. I'm interested to
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see how this works. I mean, we haven't really gotten a chance to
28:12
see the whole team and how it's gonna work this year. Like in all
28:17
the preseason games, it feels like most people haven't been playing because of early
28:19
season injuries. Obviously, Kaise rolled a shinkle against uh I don't remember who
28:26
they were playing. Oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, that made your
28:29
heart to get a beat. Yeah, oh definitely. No Kaise, Yeah,
28:33
Kaise is very important. Which I mean that was kind of what changed
28:36
last year is KAISEI got moving to the starting lineup and that's when things kind
28:38
of started clicking. You got can't started to fulfill that potential that you thought
28:41
he could do. I feel pretty good, pretty good. I think that
28:47
was a little bit of blessing in disguise there with the with the injuries,
28:51
because it did it forced it forced to kise Kaise how do you? I
28:55
don't even know how you says bad? So it forced him to step up
29:00
and say, Okay, he's here, and he's an All Big Ten preseason
29:03
honoree right now getting recognized nationally for his shooting. So it's exciting a guy
29:10
like that having to come back and and potentially make a really big impact on
29:12
the Big Ten. Dak, I know you're high on the Husker basketball team
29:15
this year too, Yeah, I actually am. I think they're going to
29:18
be I think they're gonna win their first tournament game. This is the year.
29:25
I think they'll end up twenty one to nine. I think they'll end
29:29
up around that, So that'd probably be what would that be, probably what
29:33
you think, six or seven seed, maybe eight somewhere in there. Oh,
29:37
I don't know if I'll go that high. I don't depends on I
29:41
guess how Big Ten Play goes. But yeah, I mean Kaisse, I
29:44
think I did. The last year, of the games that he played more
29:47
than thirty minutes, we won sixty percent of them, and the ones he
29:49
didn't play thirty minutes, we only won forty. So your non conference is
29:56
really easy to This schedule is so much nice or I mean, yeah,
30:02
our hardest game through the first week in December we played Creighton and then the
30:06
next but that's our non con is case State December seventeenth. That's probably the
30:14
most challenging outside of Creighton. I mean, yeah, go through that,
30:18
because I was looking at that too, which got guys, it's smart,
30:21
right, You're you're trying to get a schedule that's tough enough so that you
30:25
have a little bit of potential to win some key games to get you into
30:30
the tournament, but you also need the wins to add up as well,
30:33
And I think that's what the schedule allows us to do. Here, in
30:36
the non con I mean, we go to May we play Oregon State at
30:40
a neutral site, we go to KSE State, we get Creating at home,
30:42
but the neutral site for Oregans, like I think the neutral site for
30:45
Organs like suit Falls or something like. I think it's it's driving distance of
30:49
Nebraska. Yeah, so yeah, dude, Lindenwood, Florida, Florida A
30:52
and m Rinter Stonybrook, Oregon State and Sue Falls Dukeness. I don't remember.
31:00
Why are they playing in two Falls? I have no idea what.
31:06
And then we hit Creighton and then we have Big ten play North Dakota State,
31:10
k State, South Carolina State. I mean, and even that,
31:12
the Big ten kind of looks a little down this year outside of Michigan State
31:17
at four, Perdue at three, it's kind of not as scary as it's
31:21
been in the past. We do are projected are like, I don't know,
31:26
I've seen twelve, thirteen, I've I've seen nine. We're down there
31:29
towards the bottom again where we have been the past few years. I think
31:32
I think that's good to stay under the radar for a while as we move
31:37
into Big ten play. And then yeah, I think there's potential there to
31:40
go what we did last year in the Big ten, you know, close
31:42
to five hundred. We have. We have some new players coming in that
31:48
as Hoiberg's teams do, they turn over a lot. But some of these
31:52
guys we got in here again pending health. A lot of these guys didn't
31:56
play against Done, I think more for cautionary reasons. But we got some.
32:01
We got some good transfers in in this year that are gonna supplement the
32:07
pieces we have returning. So we did lose Derek Walker, Sam Griesel,
32:10
Bandamel, those guys are gone. But yeah, those were honestly, Walker
32:19
and Greasel pretty big losses. Walker was our leader in point t devouns and
32:22
asists, so that would't kind of stinct. But I mean, yeah,
32:28
roster wise, were a little smaller than we were a latch or our floor
32:31
is a little bit higher, like our smaller guys on average are a little
32:35
bit taller, but our taller guys are a little bit shorter. We are
32:37
this is what I've read and seen. We are the guys that we came
32:42
in and get. They are long and athletics, they are they are dudes.
32:45
They Yeah, we have you know Caseys and Marcus Lawrence are not big
32:50
guys, but are our wings and our fours and fives they are. They're
32:54
they're guys. They're they're big ten built basketball players. Yeah. So the
32:59
guys we brought then Rank Mass who's six foot nine, big, fourth year
33:02
from Bradley. He averaged fourteen points and he didn't have rebounds thirty three and
33:07
that's the big thing for him. And then we got six seven forward.
33:10
Hold on, before we move on Rank, I'm gonna go through. We're
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gonna go each one of these because I got a couple of comments on him.
33:16
Oh okay, Rank, I'm excited for He needs to be physical in
33:22
a big ten. That's the one scary piece that I'm worried about with them
33:27
is can he hold his own defensively? But he has the numbers and what
33:30
he's done I'm at Bradley has been very impressive. So I like I like
33:37
him. He's probably stirring center, right is it gonna be? These will
33:42
kind of be our projected starter. So him. Bryce Williams we bring in
33:45
as a guard from Charlotte. He was a second team All conference I believe
33:50
was the c I T player. Yeah, he's a great shooter. He's
33:55
a long, lanky guard. He's gonna score. He's gonna be one of
33:59
our leading scorers up there. Josiah Alick or alec from originally from Lincoln,
34:06
came back after playing at UMKC New Mexico. He's gonna be one of those
34:12
physical forwards. I think that probably will start. He's a good defender,
34:15
a hustle type player. And then Case as we know, and then JaMarcus
34:21
Lawrence is probably the other one that we're thinking may start at guard for us,
34:27
who came on again at the end of last year because of a lot
34:30
of the injuries and and proved that he could he can play in the big
34:32
ten and hold his own. So those probably could be our five starters.
34:37
I think there's still obviously a lot of things that could change that we you
34:44
know, pending injuries and playing time. I think a lot of these teams
34:46
now you're playing nine or ten or eleven guys and you're figuring out who your
34:50
best five are as you get closer to the end of the year. Yeah,
34:53
Juwan Gary and CJ. Wilcher are probably really the only other two fighting
34:57
for that starting spot. Correct both returned. I mean Gary was out for
35:00
the year. I believe last year got injured. Yep, So those two
35:07
guys are kind of struggled for the most part. Last year. He wasn't
35:09
what he was two years ago. No. Hoiberg's talk talked highly of him
35:15
though here in the offseason about you know, getting in better shape physically with
35:19
his body and shooting the ball well too. So Boogie Coleman's uh point guard
35:27
transfer from ball State and Missouri. I think that there's a potential he could
35:31
start some games, but he's he's more of the physical guys from what I'm
35:37
understanding, and has a lot of experience a lot of these guys that were
35:40
getting That's one thing I think Hoiberg's realized is what you need in the Big
35:45
Ten. You need guys that have played basketball a lot. The year that
35:47
we struggled with mcbryce McGowan's and Case was a sophomore. I think that year,
35:55
like those guys are just so young and and he just physically and mentally
36:00
just got out hustled and beat by some of these more experienced Big Ten teams.
36:06
Eli Rice has been our leading scorer here when we went to Spain and
36:10
then was also our leading scorer against Doane in the exhibition game. He's he's
36:15
a scorer. You can get to the rim very easily and uh excited.
36:21
I guess to see where he rotation. So Sam Hoiberg, I love Sam.
36:29
If he was three inches taller, man, he'd be freaking lighting this
36:34
world up. He's just a dog. He gets he gets after it.
36:38
He's not he's not the best basketball player in the world, but he'll fight
36:42
for loose balls. He'll he'll do all the dirty work. He's the guy
36:45
in practice you won on your team, on your practice team. Want you
36:49
know, the guy that's gonna push everyone. He's the coach. You know,
36:52
he's a coach's kid. I mean you want that, right, So
36:55
yeah, I expect Kiss to be better this year. He played in the
36:59
feed World Cup, you know, against real competition and real size, and
37:05
arguably this is Fred's best three point shooting team that's actually put together. But
37:08
it's also still got decent size and defense. So hopefully that last last guy
37:13
we were getting here, Dak You mentioned him was d Up. It's our
37:15
d Up. Very late commitment, but we'll see. I think he's gonna
37:22
find some playing time in the low post. Along with potentially Blaze Cata,
37:27
who's also on the team from last year. We'll see he was very,
37:30
very raw, but I think we saw the physicality potential that he had a
37:36
year ago. And then the other one that I don't think will probably ever
37:39
see because of all of the gambling things coming out of Iowa is the years.
37:47
We'll see if he plays. But he was gambling on games last year
37:53
when he played for Iowa. Oh there you go, you got busted and
37:58
it was like on his mom's account or something. Still can even play.
38:02
He is currently suspended, I believe. Yeah. So the way, is
38:10
Tominaga good to go tomorrow? I have not heard any I think I think
38:15
Brent said it was a game time decision last I saw. I think we're
38:20
favored by twenty one and a half or twenty two against Lyndon Wood. I
38:24
think linden Wood's a recent D one college out of Saint Louis real quick record
38:31
predictions, Austin, I don't know how many games we play, but you
38:35
said twenty one and nine dak out of thirty. What are we thinking Let's
38:40
go twenty three and seven. Jesus, who do you think we are?
38:45
I'm going I'll go to the schedule. I'll go eighteen and twelve, twenty
38:52
three and seven. I think that can be actually really good. I mean,
38:55
in your schedule is super easy. Are we shot nine non on Friends
39:00
games? I feel pretty good about that. Max, I think your non
39:02
converse you lose one. All right, Well, we will be back on
39:09
Wednesday to preview the Maryland Terrapins. The Turps coming to Lincoln for another chance
39:19
to get the Huskers bowling. Go Big Red CB are remember sooner. I
39:24
love that burnt orange dude. That