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Episode 19 | Husker Season Scenarios · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big red the takes the numbers the chaos hunter
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  Speaker 1: austin deck talking corn husker football basketball and everything nebraska
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  Speaker 1: sports welcome to the return to glory.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast Return to Glory podcast. Monday morning, August 31st, Game Week.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Zarbonicki, Austin Rose. We are live on YouTube. Replays
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  Speaker 2: can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, anywhere you can
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  Speaker 2: get your podcasts. Austin, Game Week's here. We made it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not that fun.
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  Speaker 4: It's just weird.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? I feel like I finally got some
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  Speaker 2: excitement about Husker football here last few days. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like every day this week is going to be wearing
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  Speaker 2: my Husker gear. It's not Kool-Aid. It's not Kool-Aid, but
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  Speaker 2: it is, I don't know, it's just, it's, That abusive relationship,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is, I guess. You just can't get
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  Speaker 2: out of it, and we're at a high right now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, you sipped a little Kool-Aid mid-season, so there's
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  Speaker 3: still time for some Kool-Aid drinking.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hopefully we start the way that we hope we do.
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  Speaker 2: So today, what we're doing, Austin and I are going
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  Speaker 2: to quickly, rapid-fire go through.
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  Speaker 2: A scenario, how we think the season could go. And
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  Speaker 2: this could be, I mean, floor or ceiling, what you
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  Speaker 2: actually think will happen, but one possible outcome is what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing. And describing what that outcome is, obviously there's
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  Speaker 2: a bunch, and we're probably, neither of us are going
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  Speaker 2: to hit exactly what will happen. But it'll be a
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  Speaker 2: fun little game. You get a minute to describe how
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  Speaker 2: the scenario will go and the outcome of it, and
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  Speaker 2: then the next person will go. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wondering how many of our scenarios are going to overlap. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm worried.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if it tells you anything, I have not wrote
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  Speaker 2: one of the scenarios down yet. I'm spitballing.
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  Speaker 3: I have mentally, you know, I've gone through and I
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  Speaker 3: came up with a couple. But then if we overlap
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  Speaker 3: a lot, then it's off the cuff. But I already
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  Speaker 3: know my worst case scenario is Well, hey.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do this. We will not reveal what we think
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  Speaker 2: our most likely scenario is until the end. So you
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  Speaker 2: can go in any order you want. But we're going
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  Speaker 2: to play the numbers here. We'll go broad spectrum and
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  Speaker 2: you can throw anything you want. So you want to
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  Speaker 2: go first?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with the realistic best case scenario. Realistic best
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  Speaker 3: case scenario. We go 10 and 2. We win Iowa, Washington,
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  Speaker 3: and we squeak out one of the Oregon, Indiana, Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State wins. And if that happens, realistically, we make the
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  Speaker 3: college football playoffs. From there, I don't know what would happen,
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  Speaker 3: but the best-case scenario is everything works from that rule.
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  Speaker 3: Calandra looks like a freaking stud. Defense comes together, and
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  Speaker 3: we beat all the teams that, you know, are– within
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  Speaker 3: our or we're either supposed to be or are within
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  Speaker 3: you know similar playing field or we consider to be
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  Speaker 3: similar playing field even though historically the last 10 seasons
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  Speaker 3: have not been like the illinois and iowas and you
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  Speaker 3: know last couple years we've gotten close to being you
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  Speaker 3: know we've done decently against some of those hired hired
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  Speaker 3: seated teams we just haven't been able to finish the
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  Speaker 3: job and maybe we catch ohio state or indiana on
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  Speaker 3: a rough week and squeak one out, and we go 10-2.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the realistic best-case scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just going to piggyback and go, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: even going to say it's realistic, but I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to say, what about this scenario? 3-0 start, on the road,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State, Maryland, win-win, Indiana comes to town, ranked, we're
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  Speaker 2: ranked top 25, upset, storm field, everybody goes nuts, 6-0,
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  Speaker 2: go to Oregon, we're riding that momentum.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Riola somehow is playing snaps. We go out there. Win.
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  Speaker 2: We storm the field in Oregon with the Husker fans.
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  Speaker 2: Then we come back. Win. Win. Against Washington. We go
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  Speaker 2: at Rutgers. Win. At Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: Win.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State comes to town. We're now a top five team.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't matter. Win. At Iowa. Instead of getting killed,
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  Speaker 2: we go out there. We beat them 45-10. Win.
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  Speaker 1: 12-0.
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten Championship. We rematch against Oregon. Don't matter. Win. Undefeated.
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  Speaker 2: We have the season of Indiana playoffs. Number one team
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  Speaker 2: in the country. Win. Win. Win. Maddie.
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  Speaker 4: You've been playing too much NCAA. football, I think. That
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  Speaker 4: is a scenario.
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  Speaker 3: The probability is not zero, but it's probably. 01 if
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  Speaker 3: I had to put.
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  Speaker 4: The actual odds on it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there's some fans out there who agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: Let's give you this scenario here. We go out I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I'm going to give you any scenario where
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  Speaker 3: we lose Ohio State Bowling Green, even though it is possible.
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  Speaker 4: I just, you know, I'm just not. It's not. We
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  Speaker 4: got 3-0. Michigan State, they've got Patty Fitzgerald, Helen. We
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  Speaker 4: lose a close one to Michigan State. We're 3-1. Go
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  Speaker 4: to Maryland, we win.
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  Speaker 3: 3-2.
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  Speaker 4: Come home, Indiana. Cleans our clock.
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  Speaker 1: 3-3.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're 3-2 after Indiana. Oregon, we lose to Oregon, 3-3. Washington,
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  Speaker 3: big blackout game. We lose, 3-4. Illinois, we have a
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  Speaker 3: recovery game. We're 4-4 now. We have three games left.
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  Speaker 3: We beat Rutgers, and we lose to Ohio State and Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: So now we're 5-7. With no.
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  Speaker 3: reason to keep Matt Rule except for financially.
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  Speaker 4: Don't make a bowl game. Season's over.
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  Speaker 3: We paid too much money to Matt Rule. We have
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  Speaker 3: to fire Matt Rule. And we start the next head
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  Speaker 3: coaching search in 2027.
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  Speaker 2: So you say we have to fire Matt Rule. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to, but we're fired.
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  Speaker 4: At five and seven, the.
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  Speaker 3: Amount of money spent, I think at that point, you
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  Speaker 3: lost all your ranked opponents.
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  Speaker 4: Three of your wins are against teams you're paying to play, basically.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe you don't.
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  Speaker 3: That's tricky. That's not quite a worst-case scenario for me
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  Speaker 3: because There's a similar worst case scenario, but I'll save
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  Speaker 3: that one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll go through one here. All these, I want
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  Speaker 2: you to think about where your head's at. The purpose
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  Speaker 2: of this podcast, I guess, is to sit and know
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  Speaker 2: where you're going to feel as a fan if this
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  Speaker 2: scenario does happen and try to prepare for all the
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  Speaker 2: possible outcomes. My last outcome, I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Never been there, so I'm not sure how I would react.
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  Speaker 3: It would be similar to my basketball experience this last year,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go all-star same way. 3-0 here. I head to
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State. Give me a loss in this one. You know,
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  Speaker 2: go out there and we lay an egg. Then we
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  Speaker 2: beat Maryland, come back, actually do a good job bouncing back.
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  Speaker 2: We play Indiana at home and we almost win. We
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  Speaker 2: actually should win the game. But a bad snap on
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  Speaker 2: the game-winning field goal as we are tied goes bad.
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  Speaker 2: We go to overtime and lose in overtime. Go out
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  Speaker 2: to Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: Demolished.
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  Speaker 2: Come back against Washington. We're not favored. We're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to win. Halloween. We win.
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  Speaker 4: Handily. 31-14.
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  Speaker 2: We go to Illinois. We ride that momentum. We win.
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  Speaker 2: We travel the Rutgers as a 14.5 point favorite. Loss.
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  Speaker 2: Just the rollercoaster of rollercoaster seasons. Come back against Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Similar to the Indiana game. We bounce back well, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't win. Not quite as dramatic as Indiana, but
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  Speaker 2: we lose by a touchdown. Then we go to Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: We pull off the win at Kinnick Stadium. I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what that puts us at.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in that, you have us losing to Indiana, Oregon, Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: State, Rutgers, and Michigan State.
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  Speaker 4: 7-5.
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  Speaker 2: 7-5 season. We are definitely coming out of it happy.
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  Speaker 4: You think so? The Iowa win.
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  Speaker 2: And we had two close losses. Really good teams.
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, you're up.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, this one might be For this one, I want
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  Speaker 3: you to put your thinking hat on here. We start 5-0.
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  Speaker 3: We go in, and we don't go in. We lose
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  Speaker 3: to Indiana close, like field goal close. So now we
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  Speaker 3: are 5-1. We go in, we play Oregon, and Calandra
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  Speaker 3: gets hurt. It's a close, close game.
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  Speaker 4: Four quarters. Calandria gets hurt. Start of the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: We lose.
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  Speaker 3: What seemed like a game that we probably could have won.
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  Speaker 3: We might even have the lead before he gets hurt.
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  Speaker 3: So we're 5-2 now. We proceed to lose. We have
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  Speaker 3: our backup quarterback. We lose Washington. We beat Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: Beat Rutgers. We beat Illinois. Beat Rutgers. Lose Ohio State.
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  Speaker 4: Lose Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: All in horrible fashion. Similar to last year, some may say.
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  Speaker 3: Get our clock cleaned by Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: We're now 7-5.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe 6-6. I don't remember exactly. And we looked horrible
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  Speaker 3: the last half of the season with our backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing was close. Except for the one win where we
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  Speaker 3: squeaked it out in a 13-12 bang. But What would
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  Speaker 3: you feel?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 4: We're 6-6. We go to a bowl game and we
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  Speaker 4: get our clocks cleaned again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm moving on to a new coach, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, I'm saying the exact same thing as last year happens.
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  Speaker 4: That might be my worst case scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and this is So this isn't my worst case
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  Speaker 2: scenario I'm doing next, but I think it's definitely a
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  Speaker 2: plausible one. 3-0 to start. And we go to Michigan State,
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  Speaker 2: lose a close game on the road. I think that
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State game is one of the biggest games this
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  Speaker 2: season because of this reason. Now if we win it,
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  Speaker 2: it might not end up being the biggest game, but
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  Speaker 2: if we lose it, I seriously think, from that point on,
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  Speaker 2: the wheels could definitely fall off. Everything. And it may
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  Speaker 2: be tough to win another game. So, lose that game.
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  Speaker 2: Maryland at home, loss. Obviously, Indiana-Oregon, this scenario, loss. Washington, loss.
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  Speaker 2: At Illinois, loss. The one chance maybe we have to
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit of excitement. But, again, under this scenario...
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  Speaker 2: I just think we will be so beaten down and
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  Speaker 2: so emotionally done, drained, don't care about the season. I
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  Speaker 2: say we. I'm talking about more of the players in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room for that game. Coaches get up. People
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  Speaker 2: aren't going to care. Now, Ruggers could be in a
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  Speaker 2: similar boat. Don't get me wrong. So, loss and then
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State at home. The sellout streak ends officially because–
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  Speaker 2: Nobody goes to that game and wants us to watch
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  Speaker 2: us get beat by 50. We do get beat by 50.
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  Speaker 2: We go to Iowa and, I mean, by this point,
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  Speaker 2: if this were to happen, ooh, boy. I think after
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  Speaker 2: that game right there, Matt Rule gets fired. And it
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  Speaker 2: might actually be after the Rutgers game you get fired
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  Speaker 2: after the Rutgers game. That might actually be what happens
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  Speaker 2: because people are going to hold on to that Rutgers
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  Speaker 2: game and say, you win that, maybe there's some hope.
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  Speaker 2: You can beat Iowa, go 5-7. People are going to
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  Speaker 2: try to justify it that way, but I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Loss obviously finished 3-9. I don't think it'll happen, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's– if we lose that Michigan State game,
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  Speaker 2: just be prepared for the wheels to fall off.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny because I don't think we have– we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about the firing of Matt Rule, but I think if
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  Speaker 3: Matt Rule goes, Troy Dannon's also going because the Regents
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  Speaker 3: are going to be like, we can't fire Matt rule
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  Speaker 3: because we just gave him a big old contract. So
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  Speaker 3: we're going to fire her athletic director who gave him
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  Speaker 3: the big old contract, even though.
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  Speaker 4: It could get messy.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I, you know, a similar thought I had was
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  Speaker 3: you start basically five and one, and then the last
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  Speaker 3: you lose every game to a currently ranked opponent and
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  Speaker 3: either Illinois or Michigan state.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we start five and one, you want
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  Speaker 4: to lose to Michigan state. Um, You know, probably lose
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  Speaker 4: to Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: You start 5-1 and end the year 1-6.
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  Speaker 4: Or 1-5 in the last five. You go 6-6.
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  Speaker 3: And they're against all teams that are ranked and that
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  Speaker 3: you weren't favored to win. You know, maybe they were close,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just.
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  Speaker 4: The contract that Matt Rule has.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know we can't... He's not going to get
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  Speaker 3: hired somewhere else to off-balance... the buyout.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of our scenarios here aren't very pretty.
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  Speaker 3: You know, now that we're doing this off the cuff
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  Speaker 3: and running through them, it's like, gosh, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of these fledgling seven and fives, five and seven, six
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  Speaker 3: and six seasons we're looking at here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I kind of wanted to do this
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Cause Matt rules not getting talked about
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  Speaker 2: as being on the hot seat, like at all this year.
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  Speaker 4: And, and correct.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I think there's definitely more scenarios, not more scenarios
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  Speaker 2: than not maybe, but there's a lot of scenarios here
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  Speaker 2: with the schedule that he doesn't, he's not our head
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  Speaker 2: coach in 2027. And nobody's talking about that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that's because of the like contract extension. You
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  Speaker 2: just think you're locked in and I'm with you on
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  Speaker 2: the Troy Dannen thing too. Like, and that's typical with
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska football and ADs. I just think that's not getting
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  Speaker 2: talked about at all. And not that it's saying that
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  Speaker 2: it should, but, just know that the way this season
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  Speaker 2: plays out, that that's going to come into conversation very quickly,
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  Speaker 2: especially with that Michigan state game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I have two scenarios left. I want to get to one.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll, I'll be more on the positive side. Cause
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  Speaker 2: I do think this is also, and you know, if, if,
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  Speaker 2: if expectations go better than they're supposed to, and we
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  Speaker 2: haven't had that here in Nebraska in.
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  Speaker 4: Years.
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  Speaker 2: And I just, I'm just going to say the law
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  Speaker 2: of averages, right? Sometime it's going to happen. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know when, maybe it's this year, but it hasn't happened
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  Speaker 2: in a while. So yeah, start three and oh, obviously
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  Speaker 2: start five and five and oh, winning those two games.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just, let's just do it. And I'm just, I'll
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  Speaker 2: just say we're going to lose Indiana. I was going
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  Speaker 2: to say, do it and win it, but say no.
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  Speaker 2: Then lose Oregon, but competitive. uh, you know, when the
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  Speaker 2: next three lose Ohio state, but somewhat competitive as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then, Oh, let's just throw out a win against
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  Speaker 2: Iowa nine and three season. Um, and I had a
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  Speaker 2: second scenario here, just as easy at Iowa, lose that
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  Speaker 2: one the way we normally do eight or four, nine
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  Speaker 2: and three. Um, I guess the vibes of that is
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  Speaker 2: probably a little bit different with Iowa being Iowa. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really good bowl game. I don't think nine
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  Speaker 2: and three gets you in the playoffs. Um, Maybe how
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  Speaker 2: the college football season goes, and you lose those three
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  Speaker 2: games to those really good teams, and they're all 11-1, 10-2,
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  Speaker 2: and dominant. Maybe you squeak in as the fourth Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten team because that's the only three losses you have.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say that's probably not out of the question. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll say probably not, but playing in a very, very
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  Speaker 2: good bowl game, the next Big Ten bowl game, that
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  Speaker 2: again is, to me, you know, ceiling. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that's going to happen because why would it? Because it isn't.
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  Speaker 2: we have it but.
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  Speaker 3: Uh that was the same scenario i was going to
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  Speaker 3: do and i i have looked last year the highest
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  Speaker 3: ranked um the highest ranked nine and three team was
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  Speaker 3: texas at 13 in the College Football Playoff rankings. I'm
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  Speaker 3: assuming their three losses were all to Alabama, Georgia. Similar,
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  Speaker 3: but I guess they had better wins. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what their wins were. Vanderbilt was 10-2, Utah was 10-2,
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  Speaker 3: and then USC was number 16 at 9-3.
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  Speaker 4: I had a similar.
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  Speaker 3: I already gave you my ceiling, but my Realistic best
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  Speaker 3: case scenario for our season was a 9-3.
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  Speaker 4: We basically win.
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  Speaker 3: Iowa, essentially lose Indiana, Oregon, Ohio State with maybe one
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  Speaker 3: of those being close, two of those, one being not
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  Speaker 3: a blowout, maybe one being a blowout.
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  Speaker 4: But you see some positive steps.
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  Speaker 3: And you leave on a high, maybe a decent game
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  Speaker 3: against Ohio State at home where we lose close and
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  Speaker 3: then we go and we beat Iowa on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Because why can't we can't beat Iowa at home?
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  Speaker 4: You know, or why would we do that? We don't
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  Speaker 4: want to enjoy the win.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that that is my realistic best case scenario.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you my last my last scenario that I
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  Speaker 3: think is going to happen. I think we start five
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  Speaker 3: and oh, we lose Indiana, Oregon. I haven't decided what
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  Speaker 3: I think was going to happen in Washington. It's a
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  Speaker 3: blackout game. They're ranked 17, but I don't know if that's...
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  Speaker 3: So we're 5-2.
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  Speaker 4: We lose Washington. We beat Illinois. We're 6-3. Beat Rutgers 7-3.
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  Speaker 4: And we probably lose our last two games to end
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the year 7-5. That's what I think is going to happen.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I don't mind it. My official on the record. Game-by-game prediction.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I'm starting the exact same way as you, but that
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Michigan State game scares the crap out of me. Then, yes,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: loss Indiana, loss Oregon. I do think that Washington game,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: we're going to be right there. I think we're going
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to lose it and just be frustrated again. At Illinois,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I want to, but I think we're going to lose
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: that one. I think we're going to get Rutgers because...
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going to regret saying this, but it's ruggers. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: think we can, that's one team. We have still found
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: a way to win and then lose. And then unfortunately
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: lose at Iowa again, going six and six. And we
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: are right in the conversation of what to do for
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: next year. I'm, I I'm all for moving to a
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: new coach at that point at six and six. I just,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: it's not, that's not progress. It's stale. That's, unfortunately not
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: meeting expectations are right there, but right below it. Um,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: selling stuff for the next year. Again, after the, after the,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the quietest off season in, in our lifetimes this year,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: how are you selling it? Then the next year, I
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: guess you're selling it with Trey Taylor. That's how you're
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: going to sell it. Um, but then that's another question.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: That's a whole nother question on how you, well, what
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: does that look like with, with hit that recruiting class
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: in 27?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: So, Four years is, I mean, just because Frost was
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: fired year five, right?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Mid year five. So it's one of those things where
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: it's like, all.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Right, we gave it, we gave you a good college try.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: We gave you four years to figure it out. You
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: have your whole recruits in, you know, and it's, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: get it. I'm, I think at that point I'd also
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: be fine with that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I just don't know financially how it worked. I, That's
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: just the worst-case scenario there. But, again, I think it's
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: probably one of the more likely ones because it is. Financially,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: there's issues there. It's not awful, but it's not good enough.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: If we go six and six, I don't think we
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: fire Matt Rule, but we roll. It's the exact same
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: thing with Frost. It's like we're so financially tied to it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: We roll into next year. He's on the hottest of
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: hot seats. Two missteps, and he's gone. Yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: All right, well, our schedule for the rest of this week,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: we will be doing tomorrow, I'm going to do a
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: little Anthony Calandria film breakdown here live on YouTube and
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: discuss more Calandria. Wednesday will be wacky-dacky. Wednesday is normal.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: And then Thursday, Friday is all Ohio, all the Ohio Bobcats,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: as we prepare for Saturday morning, 11 a.m.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Kick. What is our over-under for the year? Six and
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: a half. Okay.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Juice to the under.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I took the over, I guess, and took the under.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: All right. We'll be back tomorrow morning. Go Big Red.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: TBR.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: The headlines change, but.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: The mission stays.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: From Memorial Stadium to PBA days. Football Saturdays, basketball nights.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Every story chasing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Red and white.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Recruiting buzz, big time commits. Camp battles, coaching hits.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Transfer moves and rising stars. The road to glory's never far.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: This is Return to Glory.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Where every headline tells the story.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Big Red pride every season Husker Nation's got a reason
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: From touchdowns, dunks, and championship dreams We'll be back with
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: the latest from every team Until next time, keep the faith,
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: keep believing Because the Return to Glory.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Is just beginning.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Go Big Red!
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: See you next episode!