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From North Dakota to Notre Dame · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Someone was paying attention last week when Jim Rose was
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  Speaker 1: making his little biting remarks about this week we were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to play Tennessee, but now we're not. We're playing
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  Speaker 1: Bowling Green instead. Someone picked up on what you were
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  Speaker 1: saying there, Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jim, in six years, Nebraska football announced that the
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  Speaker 2: home-and-home series with Notre Dame has been canceled in favor
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  Speaker 2: of Nebraska playing St. Mary's of the Plains High.
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  Speaker 3: School because, well.
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  Speaker 2: We really don't like playing with.
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  Speaker 4: The big boys.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, St.
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  Speaker 3: Mary of the Plains is an NAIA school in Dodge City, Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: Time for the News Radio 1110 KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief.
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Buzz edition. Sean Callahan and Jim Rose.
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  Speaker 3: How do I know that? Because I broadcast a game
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  Speaker 3: from St. Mary of the Plains, which also has the
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  Speaker 3: distinction of producing Danny Nee. Quit bragging. He got his
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  Speaker 3: degree from St. Mary of the Plains.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Sean O, Notre Dame Fighting Irish on the schedule. How
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  Speaker 3: did this all happen?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Notre Dame has some openings here. They had the
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  Speaker 4: USC series for several years, and that got canceled, and
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  Speaker 4: now they've reset that series for the future years. But
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  Speaker 4: I just think they have some availability. Nebraska had some availability,
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  Speaker 4: and they were able to work it out. You think
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  Speaker 4: about the history of that series. Tom Osborne was never
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  Speaker 4: a head coach against Notre Dame. Bob Devaney had one
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  Speaker 4: game in his career coaching against Notre Dame. Frank Solich
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  Speaker 4: had the two. But for the history of these two programs,
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  Speaker 4: other than the stretch of 11 straight years in the
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  Speaker 4: 1910s and 20s where they played, they haven't been able
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  Speaker 4: to play that much for obviously various reasons. and it's
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  Speaker 4: great to see Troy Dan and Notre Dame get this
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  Speaker 4: thing worked out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be great for the fans. They're playing here
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  Speaker 3: in Lincoln in 2032 and then in South Bend on 2033.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm going to have to go to that one.
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  Speaker 3: But the reason that Nebraska and Notre Dame stopped playing
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  Speaker 3: was because of the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan was
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  Speaker 3: very big in Nebraska in the early part of the
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  Speaker 3: 20th century, and they hated Catholics as much as they
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  Speaker 3: hated Jews and blacks. And they used to harass the
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame players endlessly, and the Notre Dame people, when
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  Speaker 3: they came to town, finally, Newt Rockne said, we're done
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  Speaker 3: with this. So after 1925, they ended that series that
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  Speaker 3: had gone 10 years, and they started up a new
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  Speaker 3: series with USC that lasted all the way through to
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  Speaker 3: last year. Yeah, that's the history of the Nebraska-Notre Dame series,
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  Speaker 3: although we did play him in the 1940s when, frankly,
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  Speaker 3: he was dominating everybody. But we beat the Four Horsemen
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  Speaker 3: of Notre Dame twice back in the 1920s. Visit about
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  Speaker 3: North Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: They do have some interesting receivers, and we talked about
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Kaminsky, their quarterback, who's had some real success through
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  Speaker 3: the first three games. He's thrown for over 800 yards.
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  Speaker 3: He's hitting 70% of his passes. But it looks to
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  Speaker 3: me like Dang Dang, who's one of their better receivers, 6'4,
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  Speaker 3: 210-pound guy. That's a Big Ten body.
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  Speaker 4: Dang, dang, 11 catches for 159 yards. Their leading receiver
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  Speaker 4: is Corey Tye with 12 catches for 274. He has
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  Speaker 4: four touchdowns with a long of 74 yards. So he's
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  Speaker 4: more their number one. But, yeah, this is an offense, Jim,
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  Speaker 4: that is averaging 50 points a game and 540 yards,
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  Speaker 4: ranks second in yards in FCS, third in points. and 288.7
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  Speaker 4: passing yards per game. So this is going to be
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  Speaker 4: a test. The good news is for Nebraska, the secondary
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  Speaker 4: is the strength, but this will be a test for
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  Speaker 4: the pass rush. The offensive line for North Dakota has
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  Speaker 4: not allowed very many pressures. Their left tackle, Trey Staden
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  Speaker 4: from Millard West, has allowed one pressure in three games.
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  Speaker 4: on the quarterback. So there's got to be a nice
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  Speaker 4: test here for Nebraska. And they punt it well, too,
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  Speaker 4: if you stop them. They lead FCS football in net
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  Speaker 4: punting right now at 48.8 yards per punt.
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  Speaker 3: And they haven't had to punt a lot either. Let's
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  Speaker 3: visit about Trey Staden. A lot of Nebraska fans are
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  Speaker 3: pretty upset that he's not here. He's an NFL prospect,
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  Speaker 3: and we're talking a high, high NFL draft prospect. Let's
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  Speaker 3: walk back to his high school days at Millard West.
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  Speaker 3: And how do you miss him? Now, he was skinny,
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  Speaker 3: but he was tall. How do you miss that guy
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  Speaker 3: if you're Nebraska?
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  Speaker 4: Well, in his fifth year, he was a tight end
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  Speaker 4: in high school. And it's kind of a Dakota formula.
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  Speaker 4: They were able to sit on these guys for four
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  Speaker 4: or five years, develop them, and turn them into guys
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  Speaker 4: like this. And he wasn't really on a lot of
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  Speaker 4: radars at that point because he wasn't a true tackle.
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  Speaker 4: I think he went to North Dakota initially as a
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  Speaker 4: tight end. and then grew into a tackle. It's kind
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  Speaker 4: of like Eric Ingersoll now, the big-bodied kid. He's tied
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  Speaker 4: in right now, but had that kind of body where
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  Speaker 4: he just grew into being a tackle. And that's just
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  Speaker 4: going to happen. I think the development model is different
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  Speaker 4: at the FCS level because teams can take more chances
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  Speaker 4: on kids like that. We're now in Power 4 football.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot more pressure to take a type of
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  Speaker 4: kid that is going to be developed and ready to
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  Speaker 4: go immediately just because of the nature of the type
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  Speaker 4: of players you have to have now to play at
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  Speaker 4: the Power 4 level.
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  Speaker 3: So in your crystal ball, Sean, you've been watching high
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  Speaker 3: school football longer than anybody. In your crystal ball, who's
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  Speaker 3: the Trace Thayden in Nebraska in the year 2026? Who's
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  Speaker 3: the kid that really, really is under the radar but
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  Speaker 3: has physical attributes who could conceivably grow into that kind
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  Speaker 3: of a player here?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh, you're putting me on the spot. But, like,
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Vignes from Papillion is a really good lineman, and
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  Speaker 4: he's going to North Dakota State. He had Kansas State
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  Speaker 4: and some other offers at one point. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what happened there if, like, He just wanted to go
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  Speaker 4: to North Dakota State, but that's a kid that's leaving
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  Speaker 4: the area to go to one of the Dakotas schools.
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  Speaker 4: And I could see him being a really good player
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  Speaker 4: up there. A lot of people think he is the
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  Speaker 4: best overall offensive lineman in the city. He's not maybe
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  Speaker 4: as tall as Matt Erickson, doesn't have the arm length,
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  Speaker 4: but he's got all the other intangibles. So that's a
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  Speaker 4: guy to watch, I think, from Papillion, Bryce Vignes.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you and I both love that kid out
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  Speaker 3: of Grand Island Central Catholic. Owen Price could become a really,
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  Speaker 3: really good football player. He's going to be a four-star.
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  Speaker 3: He ain't flying under the radar, but man, that kid,
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  Speaker 3: he is something else. All right, big guy. That's why
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  Speaker 3: they call him the KFB Husker Info Strongman. Stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: We can throw him curveballs when he still hits them
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  Speaker 3: out of the ballpark.