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Episode 5.49: The Impressive Turnaround · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turn the Glory podcasts. We're back after a few weeks. Pods are few
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and far between here, but Nebraska basketball needs some talking about here. I
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mean, we're getting towards the end of the year and we're looking like we
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still might be a tournament team. Hunter's Arba, Nika here, Austin Rose,
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Dakota Free tag dak Oh you Nebraska round one. I'm still tired of
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watching Oklahoma basketball. They run the three main weave on offense. Their offense
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sucks every time watching. They're not fun team to watch. If Nebraska plays
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and they'd kicked this ship out of them, I hope. So you want
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to play Oklahoma and if that happens, I believe we're going, aren't we.
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Daker, You're going, I'm going regardless, But yep, I'll probably
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have to go, depending on where it is for same because right now I
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think I saw that would be what, oh shoot, what bracket was that
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in that there's so many obviously brackets. I think that was was that CBS's
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that the Andy Katz. I think maybe Yep or Palmer one of them.
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I don't know. Yeah, there's there's so many. Here's some good news
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for Nebraska fans for us. We are in everyone's right now, That's true.
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It's not even yeah, like I don't think at this point anyone's really
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worried about not making the tournament. We're hoping that we make it as a
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ten seed in the Omaha region is what we want. Yeah, I mean,
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there's there's obviously tons of different angles to look at it. And look,
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you just said, I think everybody's mind right now is yeah, We're
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We're in. And I want to caveat that though and put a little pause
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on it, because there's still work to be done now. I do think
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that Hoiberg and staff have this team sitting in a very very good spot,
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good mental headspace. I guess here towards the end of the year, guys,
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I want to throw out a fun stat for you that I heard that
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I thought was just fascinating and and this can kind of go back to Austin.
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You're in my opinions maybe on Hoiburg and what potentially could get have gotten
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done with this program in the last thirty seven games, Fred Hoiberg is twenty
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six and eleven. That's pretty good and only one Big Ten team has a
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better record than that in their last thirty seven games and that's Purdue. Wow,
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Holy crap. So what was he being like, Oh yeah, before
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that, it was like yeah, it was like thirty two and eighty years.
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I mean, it was something bad, really really bad. And we
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even brought up, I know last year that his salary, you know,
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he was a top fifteen to ten paid coach in the country and his record
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was so bad. I don't think there were many people that people that know
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college basketball. I don't think many people thought that it would ever work out
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here for Fred if you had asked us a year and a half ago where
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our minds are adding, and I'm in one of those, and I'll admit
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I was completely wrong on it where we sitting now. But that being said,
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there's still work to do this year, and I know everything is going
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well at the moment, and we're in a great spot to keep climbing a
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higher scene in the NCAA tournament projections. But here's the deal, and I
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still believe this, guys. We have at minimum four games left on our
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schedule right yep. Three regular season. We go to Ohio State tomorrow,
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We host Rutgers on Sunday, and then we go at Michigan, and then
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we're guaranteed at least one game in the tournament. We have to win two
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games. I still think. I think we gotta go at least two and
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two. Now, winning a game in the tournament gives us a little more
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cushion, but you go zero and three or one and two and drop your
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first rounder in the tournament as a five or six seed. I don't like
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our chances. I don't know at least as I can't see as not even
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make we if we're if we go oh and three, I still think we're
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a bubble team. Correct, Yes, And then I still think you gotta
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win a couple in the in the tournament because of the quality in the Big
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Ten tournament, because of the quality of the teams that we're playing. And
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I'm being mister very pessimistic right now by saying that, because all signs point
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to us being better than all three of these teams. Now, Ohio State
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is hot right now and rallying under an interim head coach. But I'm just
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saying it's not all done yet, and I think I'm a little worried,
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and I have in the past couple of games that the players might be feeling
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that, oh, we're in we're you know, we've done what we need
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to do. But after the game against Minnesota, obviously coach Johnson says this
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is a possessed team on a mission. I will say I went to the
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Minnesota game. It's a different atmosphere down Like, I mean, the real
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arder was actually kind of packed, and I was I had not seen that
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for a basketball game yet, like, there's a there's a little energy behind
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it. The crowd was really into it, even when we were up big,
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Like, I don't know, it's a different vibe this year. That
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was a good win. Minnesota is not a bad team, and they are
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pretty hot, yeah, coming into it, and they just kicked the shit
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out of them. Yeah, And we've done well, I think in all
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of our last four games. All the stats floating around of winning four conference
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games in a row by fifteen plus for the first time since like nineteen twelve
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or something like that, it has it's been very impressive. I mean,
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I don't think we can discredit anything in these last four games with how we
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played and performed, three of them being at home, but also grabbing that
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first road win, which I think we really needed, and I still think
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winning this Ohio State game and or the Michigan game is obviously going to help,
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But I just want to make sure that people aren't we're a lock in
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the tournament because we go zero to three and one and done in a big
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ten term. I don't think we're getting in and I think we're still questioning
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a lot of things now that I still think is the most negative, pessimistic
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like view of it all. And I don't think that will happen. But
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we're Husker fans and we've seen worse. That's true. Yeah, I feel
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good with her at I really do. Like I just really hope we play
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in Omaha. That's all I really want at this point. You know what
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the biggest thing is right now is that Lawrence is playing good. He is
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true and he was one that I thought earlier in the year when he was
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struggling, like I wanted him to keep going. I shot looks good,
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he makes good decisions, and yeah, you finally have a a guy that
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is a primary point guard that that's playing well. And that's what's great about
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this team, right And we've talked about we've talked about the pros and cons
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throughout this basketball season on how balanced we are and that the good good news
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is is any given guy can can score and be the be the go to
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guy. And we've seen case A do We've seen Bryce Williams do We've seen
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Rank Mass do it. We've seen We've seen CJ. Wilcher do it,
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we saw Lawrence do it. The we have so many different guys that can
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be a playmaker on the court, and so if a couple of guys are
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having an off eight er is just not working for him, we have other
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options. And yes, there's also a pro and con to that, because
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yeah, when you do decide and nobody really knows who that person is,
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that might be concerning. But we haven't ran into that really much so far.
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And this team just looks again, they look like they're on a mission
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and take all the offensive side of the ball away. Defensively, I mean
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we are. We are getting stops and forcing tough shots the first half of
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these last couple of games, like the other teams don't even they can't even
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get a decent look up at the room anymore so getting shot. Shout out
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to coach coach Lenzer and and staff there too of doing a great job defensively
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keeping us locked in and buying into what the other teams are doing. I
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mean, is there anyone like, yeah, like we are balanced because you
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think it's like, all right, who's really stood out. I honestly,
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no one's really stood out, and it's kind of nice. And we're healthy.
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We're healthy at the right time. Knock on wood, like we're outside
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of Eli Rice. I don't know if we really have anyone who's would contribute
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significantly that's hurt or even nicked. Yeah, case they didn't even basically play
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that Minnesota game and you still won by that much. And there's been Yeah,
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there's been several games where you know, if teams know exactly how to
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take case away, and sometimes it's some teams do better than others, but
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it is it's not like he's a strength defensively, more closer probably do a
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liability. So yeah, if he doesn't play much, it's it's nice to
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know we have other options that can go in and provide a spark when we
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need it. So Austome, you mentioned you mentioned Omaha being obviously the best
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case scenario, and I do think a lot of Husker fans obviously for obvious
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reasons, hope that that's the case. And interesting comment made by one of
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the members of the committee. I said, yeah, like, we're not
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We're not going to say no to putting Nebraska and Omaha. From what I've
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heard and read how a lot of the locations of stuff work, and this
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is all new to us on the podcast. You don't I don't want to
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put the car before the horse and say we're a lot, but it is.
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It's been more fun just to read about because we've been not just on
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the bubble but in the tournament and a lot of these projections. So like
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anyways, the committee chair or someone on the committee said that Omaha is not
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out of the question, And from things that I read, usually it's only
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the top one or two seeds really get looked at for a location and the
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rest are more just computer generated based on their seeds and then where they want
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to put them. There's not much thought that goes in from a location standpoint
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for or against these other teams. So I thought that was interesting, I
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guess, And yeah, I think Husker fans would be thrilled to have an
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Omaha game in that CHI would be I mean, it'd be passed. I
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can't even imagine the atmosphere. It would be absolutely rucus. Can you imagine
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Ku versus Nebraska the second round game that we got to win one game I
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don't I don't even know about if they make it in Omaha. There's no
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way we don't win the first game, No way. Yeah, I was
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saying, one team you want to plays Oklahoma. One team you don't,
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which I saw in some rejections ten to seven is car in a state.
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I don't think you want to play them. I've watched him a couple of
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times. They're pretty damn good. Yeah, I've seen. I mean,
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right now, there's you could you could name off ten to fifteen different matchups
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and teams that we've seen so far. There's there's a lot of teams on
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the bubble and and I think, again we're just ahead of that mark.
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But I do think losing two of our last three puts us right back in
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that conversation. Now. I think we're still on the on the upper line
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of that. But I still think the magic number from here to the rest
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of the year before selection Sunday is two. I still think getting two wins
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put to us in guarantees a sin And I think obviously that that should be
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able to be done. Now we are underdogs tomorrow at Ohio stated by a
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couple of points, which I am not surprised by it. But winning that
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one, I mean, even just winning that one alone on the road,
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I think is a big statement as well. Good any guys, good year
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to be a basketball fan for the Huskers here. And you guys killed Wisconsin.
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Yeah, wow, Wisconsin at a rough February. I'll say that,
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yeah, they haven't because you guys killed everything they've wanted to do. I
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said, a lot of top ten teams have had a really good February.
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Yeah, I want to ask you guys this, so okay for people that
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don't know, I'm going to the game wherever it's at, like, so
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I'll be honest. Like for personal selfishness, Omaha is my last pick because
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I want to go somewhere else see and for me it's number one because I
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already have tickets to Omaha and I'm going to Omaha regardless of where we end
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up going. Yes, so like Omaha, I think obviously from a Husker
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from getting our first win too, is number one as well. So take
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Omaha out out of there. I've looked at a lot of the locations,
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and I just want to get your guys' thoughts because I think it was fun
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just thinking of where these first round games are located. And Dayton, Ohio
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is not included in this either. No, I don't think anybody wants to
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go to Dayton on a Tuesday or Wednesday and play. So here's here's if
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we're in I'm going oh wait, wait, hold on, while you're speaking
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Dayton. So if the Husters are first the first four games they win,
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you guys counting that, yes, yes, your counting has the first tournament
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win ever. Yep, ye, all right, that is it's part of
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the tournament, like it's it's not a sixty one. It's not a sixty
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fourteen tournament sixty eight which expansion. Okay, okay, we'll come back to
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the experience. So the eight locations, in no particular order. We have
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Omaha. The other Midwest one is Indianapolis. I'm going off a memory here,
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so we'll see if I remember I've thought of these right now. Okay,
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see if I'm right, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Utah, Spokane,
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Washington mm hmm, Greensboro, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina,
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or North Carolina, somewhere in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, mm hmm.
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Put in New York mm hmm. In Memphis, Tennessee, that's it,
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dah. Out of all those places that take all while out of it,
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where are your where's your top choice? Where would you want to go
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watch a basketball game and hang out for a Thursday through a Sunday. Probably
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Memphis. I think that'd be the most fun place to stay for a weekend
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and watch a game. The least by far be Salt Lake City. Nothing
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fun I ever have in Salt Lake City. Arsenal's eight o'clock. I didn't
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know you could drink there. Screw that. You can catch me dead on
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Salt Lake City. But Memphis for sure number one, and then probably Brooklyn
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after that. Often where's your head at? Well? I mean, if
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I'm going and I'm places to be, it's gotta be Charlotte, North Carolina.
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You got the beaches, nice weather, U n C. It's Charlotte
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on the coast. I mean, you're in North Carolina, I think so.
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I don't know if it's on the coast coast, I think so.
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It's close though pretty close. I know nothing neither. I don't know how
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far we drive. It is. It's inland, looks like it's maybe still
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a couple hours from the beach. So yeah, my my top two are
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Charlotte one, because I mean's that's your warmest climate you're gonna get. And
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now we had an eighty two degree day in Nebraska followed by like a twenty
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but this week, then I will say Brooklyn's my number I think Brooklyn might
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be my number one, and then Charlotte might second. But like, I've
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never been to New York and I think this would be a perfect weekend ago.
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The only thing I don't like about that is going to be the prices
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for everything. No, but I think it could be fun. And Pittsburgh's
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like not. I feel like Pittsburgh's the on the list. Indianapolis I've been
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to, Like I've been around downtown to like, I guess it's cool,
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but also at the same time, like, I want to go somewhere.
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New Spokan would be pretty cool. Spokane's gorgeous. Yeah, it'd be gorgeous
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for like, but it's probably gonna be cold, and it's not anywhere close
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to the coast and that's true. It is a different part of the country
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though that I've never been, so I think that would be I mean,
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I wouldn't be opposed to it, but yeah, I again, from selfish
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reasons, don't want Omaha. But I think most Oscar fans because we have
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a better chance of winning Omaha's probably to us. It'd be so cool to
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have our first win in Omaha. It'd be so cool. Now, let
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me ask you this, And if you don't have an opinion, you don't
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have an opinion. But do you have a seed preference? Now? Right
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now I've seen anywhere from I mean, seven would be very very high right
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now, but we could easily get there, depending how the rest of the
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year goes all the way down to yeah, like in eleven, like does
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it? Does it matter? I don't want to face the number one seed
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in round two. That's that's my thing too. I hate being eight nine.
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I think that's that's the worse. I'd rather be ten or eleven than
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eight. Or that's interesting because I've heard I mean, I've heard that thought
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that take before two. See, and this is just how my brain operates.
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But I could give a ship less about round two. I mean I
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really could. I I don't care like at all, and and I get
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it, like I think, regardless of where we're at, we win that
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first game, I think we're getting our ship rocked round two. If we're
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playing a two or wide, I just don't think we have a chance because
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we're gonna be celebrating. I mean, the whole next two days you played
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for you've already beat them. Yeah. I mean that's the thing about this
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year is you feel alright playing any of the one seats. There's really no
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one that I shouldn't say, all right, like it's like, oh,
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we have a chance, but there's anyone that you're like, that person's a
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lock to win every night. I don't feel like about there's no one scary,
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right, I mean, yeah, and up there most of the year.
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But yeah, we beat you already, so and you couldn't have by
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creating I will say, just all of this, it's just been fun.
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It's been enjoyable. It's been great to follow along a team that's having success
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for once. I just feel like it's been so long for me. It's
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probably the most fun I've had in February watching Nebraska basketball since we had in
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twenty nineteen when we had to pick up like two football players to fill out
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our roster and we won two tournament games. Yeah, because that was fun
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too. That was fun, but different reason, but it was fun.
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We're looking I'm looking forward to Owe. You looking forward to playing Ou.
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That's the only thing I guess not. I don't know. If you guys
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watch, they suck, Dak. If O you and Nebraska played in a
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neutral site tomorrow, what would the spread be? Oh? Boy, oh
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man, probably Brian Abrask by one and a half. All right, it's
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a very high spread. Oh I bet Nebraska. Oklahoma's not good the three
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man weave, as Dak says, God, they need to fire that coach.
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They just got him. No, he's been there. It has to
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be his third year, third year. Bring bring uh God, damn.
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Why can't think his name? Is? They got it the retired? Bring
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him back. Why can't I think his name? Floyd? No? What
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the hell is it? Anyway? Bring him back? Long Kruger, Long
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Krueger. Yes, I don't think than you are. I don't know why
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I can't think it was. That guy was awesome. Oh, Dak,
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that's so sad that I could name your old head coach. And you couldn't
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bring Buddy Heel back too. Yeah, Entree Young, No, No,
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I did not like that guy. All right, any other basketball talk,
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Uh, I'll reread thoughts on the talk of expanding the tournament. I want
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to get a win first, So no, I want to get I want
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to get a win in the current format, because what's going to happen.
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I see what you're saying, and they expand it, it just feels like
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if you expanded anymore, like what's the point in anything. I mean,
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honestly, if you're even remotely good, you're going to get in. It's
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yeah, I agree, Yeah, And I think depending on how they do
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it, I think there's arguments then that they're going to be made it somehow
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reward regular season more. But I mean you look at all the different major
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sports like NBA. You're look what they did. They they head on the
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sixteen in each conference are getting a chance. So mm hmm, added one
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and I think it was what was it, NFL added one a few years
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back, bring the seven. MLB added Maybe they haven't added one, but
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yeah, it's just kind of the nature of where major sports are going.
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Money talks. Yeah, and and and people want to people want to watch
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more, And that's kind of my thought behind it too, Like I'm not
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opposed to it, and I just want Nebraska to win one before they do
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it. That way, we can not say, oh, it was easier
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now than it was for the majority of the time that couldn't get one.
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So, oh, what do you guys think about storming the court? That
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pussy as duke kid that flopped is a store court storming? I think I
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think they've both been. I mean, they've both been a little bit of
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flops. I'm so fed up with all that and I'm extreme on it.
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It's just stupid it storm court court storming has been happening for so long and
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we never hear any issues about it until all of a sudden, people just
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start talking about it on social media. And that's how freaking society is these
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days. And you get something, then it gets blown out of proportion and
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you watch them both they I don't care what people say. If it's not
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being talked about, it doesn't even get highlighted nothing, it doesn't even get
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brought up because the players do there what they've done for the last sixty years,
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and it's fine. It's it is just all a social media thing.
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I just do. I think courts are stormed too much. Probably that's a
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whole different argument about whether it should be there or not. Maybe I don't
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give a ship like it's called college can't yes storm the court whenever the hell
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you want. Like I it, that's part of it being fun and enjoyable.
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It's been. It's kind of one of those I mean, just like
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rushing the field in football, Like it's just one of those neat things that
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shows a big win. And yeah, if you're a school that's proud and
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think that, you know your team shouldn't storm the court because you're better that
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than they're great, like, then don't like it's totally okay. There's nothing
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wrong with that either. So that's that's my thoughts on that. I just
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I laugh because it's media making headlines. Him and Katon Clark should get fine
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for flopping. But I think I think what they'll do. I don't think
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that they'll ban it, at least I hope not. I think they'll put
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like a timer and you have to let the visiting team get off the court
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then you can storm it, right, And I think that'd be fair like
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like you get thirty seconds to get off the court. Yeah, I think
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I saw I read you know the when Cream beat Yukon, Like the Chi
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did a great job of getting making sure Yukon players got were safe. But
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I think the hard part about saying who does well for security protocols and all
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that, Like every court storm happens at a different point, like some of
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them happened, like you know what's going to happen for like the last two
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minutes of the game, something happened, some team goes up and it happens
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in the last ten second, Summit's on a buzzer beater. Everybody just goes
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crazy at the end, Like they're happening so different. So yeah, I
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bet you could prevent a lot of them by doing that. But like the
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buzzer beater ones like good luck, because that's just people's natural emotion acting saying
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we just we just did this, So yeah, I'm with you, they'll
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probably do something. And then I didn't even know this. There are rules
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out there already, like the Big ten you can't do it more than three
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times. I didn't know that before you get fined the SEC you get fined
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one hundred thousand dollars every time you do it, so it seems you can
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do Ja Billison arrest everyone that storms the court. Yeah, that's ridiculous.
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Yeah, it's it's part. It's part of college basketball. It's part of
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what makes it great. So okay, on from basketball on the football guys.
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I have a confession drinking some kool Aid. Oh man, February damn
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before the spring game. I haven't said for what yet. Don't jump the
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gun here, guy, I just said football. It's n c A twenty
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five, the video game. That's what I'm drinking. That's not Yeah,
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that's you're following the rumor mill daily and have stuff on your feet. That's
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drinking the kool Aid. Yeah. I've always said I'm in that comes out.
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Well, they did it to me. I'm gonna have to buy one.
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Like they can't. They literally can't mess it up there. It's it's
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the same game that they were producing. So now they just have the new
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players like that's only want. It's going to be so good like the stuff
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I this is. This is where the kool Aid is like reading. They're
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gonna have the transfer portal, They're gonna have n I L. They have
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all these different metrics for the school, like to get players for recruiting.
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Like the old game was really good, like like one of the best games
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of all time, especially if you're a sports fan, and made a lot
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of good aspects to it, like really good aspects for ahead of its time,
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right with the recruiting and the and the things you can do by building
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dynasties and online dynasties, and like it's only going to get so much better
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with all the different things they can add into it. And Madden One was
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always secondary to NCAA football back in the day. It has been the only
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football game and has had its years where it's been okay, like but for
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the most part, it just is the same game year over year over year
29:21
over year, if not gotten worse, and so many complaints, so like,
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like you said, they can't mess it up, and it's just gonna
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be electric, that's all I gotta say. And yeah, they got all
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the schools in, like they're going to just keep releasing stuff slowly between now
29:38
and the official like probably August, I imagine usually it's usually it's mid July
29:45
was when it used to be. That's what people are guessing. I think
29:48
they said a lot of informations dropping in May, so between now and then
29:53
that we're getting leaks constantly of just small things coming out gameplay, and I'm
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I'm I'm excited. I will be taking off several days of work the video.
30:06
Never I've never actually owned a copy of college football. Really, this
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will be my first one. The amount of hours I spent playing those things
30:18
growing up from I think gosh, the first one that I ever got would
30:22
have been, Oh, I can't remember who the player was a Pittsburgh running
30:30
back on the cover six? Was it Leshawn McCoy? Maybe? No,
30:41
I think that was sick. Let's see here, it's gonna be so good
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though, I'm so excited, it's gonna be speak so speaking of and who
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you know all that? Who's what's what's? What are they gonna do here?
31:03
What's what's the thought? Because I think that I've seen Nick Saban talks,
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I've seen like I've seen Colorado talks and rumors with Shad Sanders being on
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there, Like what do we think is gonna be the cover? Because that's
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always a big thing with these games, and they're gonna do something. I
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think that's gonna go like for all the years they missed. I think it's
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gonna be Saban that I mean, that makes the most sense. He's dominated
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the last ten years. He's not in the sport. You don't have to
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single out a single player that might not pan out this year. You're not
31:37
going based off of Heisman previous year. I think it's gotta be Saban makes
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the most sense. I think it'll be Dianna and shaudor Chador is like the
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huge favorites to beat on the cover. It's and then Saan second, But
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I think it'll be those two for like, they're probably the most hype duo
31:57
in the culture ball right now. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
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think they'll do a Colorado thing. You know what if Colorado would have went
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nine and three, ten and two last year, probably you can't for your
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first game back. I don't think you throws on there. I don't from
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a losing team, Yeah, I don't think. So. It was two
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thousand and c AO five with Larry Fitzgerald on the cover. Yeah, and
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I'm er, guys, I when those games are coming out, and like,
32:31
I mean a lot of people kids pray our age like it was I
32:36
bought I bought it the day of every day it came out, I either
32:38
had a pre order and I would wait for it to get to the house,
32:42
or I would literally go make someone drive me to Walmart and I would
32:46
get the game the day it came out. Every like it and then I
32:52
just the first thing. I always playing full season with Nebraska normally it took
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about a day, take a long so many hours the summer. It's gonna
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be good. That's that. That's where I'm speaking of speaking car. I
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don't know if I asked this about the car? Is the car on Nebraska?
33:13
This year? The most hype gaming has a most have been about a
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game in a while, like going into like this last year's game, Yeah,
33:23
can be going into this next Yeah, I haven't even thought about it,
33:28
to be honest, because I've been reading people and they say that's they're
33:30
the most that's the most hype they they are ever. But yeah, I
33:37
don't know. Is Nebraska basketball is taking my thoughts and time away? I
33:40
haven't. I have not thought about that before I came on here. Someone
33:46
I have not thought about football. Yeah, Well, I mean we'll obviously
33:53
have a lot of and more talk here. It's bringing practice. I mean
33:59
it's right around the corner, believe it or not, Like it's it's gonna
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be here before we know it. I really liked the three the three mantra
34:07
this year, just three more points on offense defense. I really liked that.
34:13
Oh, speaking of football, you saw of this too dunk contest halftime.
34:17
It was pretty good, actually, I mean, I you know,
34:23
I was there. I was pleasant surprised. Didn't expect it, like the
34:29
fact that they were like these are like players that you know, like,
34:30
I mean, this was our starting quarterback, our starting running back. Who
34:36
else was there? It was FDONI I mean our starting tight end. Like
34:43
these were like legit players, and they were actually pretty good dunks, and
34:45
they would just hit them. I mean, Emma Johnson definitely was the most
34:50
athletic. He wished, I know, he just couldn't finish him. It
34:55
was It was actually really fun. It was way better than watching a dog
34:59
catch a freaking frisbe For the twentieth time. I've seen that a lot every
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time. Yeah, it was good. I think it was a good change
35:15
of pace. I don't know, it was fun and it was perfect timing
35:21
too. Right after the NBA l start, like it was a good idea
35:24
and you can tell probably it was something that someone had the idea, Hey,
35:28
this would be fun to do, and they're like, yeah, let's
35:29
just do it. Why not they they did it and yeah, again another
35:34
good pr thing. I think it shows again the relationship that Rule has with
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his players, but also the Nebraska community as well, Like he puts himself
35:45
out there constantly. I know, with Amy Williams getting a big win against
35:50
Iowa, like he was won by the locker room by congratulating here. I
35:54
think I think that's that those little things that Rule does is going to translates
36:01
into big things eventually. He's visible for us. Was never visible to the
36:07
public, and Mike Riley was just a grandpa and plean. He wasn't visible.
36:13
I mean, he wasn't really out much doing. Is invested in the
36:15
university and its athletics department and what's going on. Correct. Well, I
36:24
will say this too. Back back to basketball before we close it out,
36:28
guys, another fifty dollars going on Ohio State tomorrow. Right. We haven't
36:32
been on the pod for a while, but the last four games I bet
36:36
against this hedge in the happiness. I'm down some money. But you know
36:43
what, bet all all of them against like the spread against him last four
36:47
Yeah wow, oh yeah, buying buy it, buying us and wait,
36:54
buying Tom's take it every game. I gotta do that tonight before I forget.
37:01
Keep buying us our way to the tournament. Then we'll be happy.
37:07
What is right now? Ho State by three? I think it's two and
37:10
a half or three? Right now? Three and a half? Who continues
37:17
to go up, Dak Where are you going on it? Oh boy?
37:30
That gains a coin flip. Oh boy, I'd probably if I was betting
37:36
on it, I probably bettle House State. That probably the smart bet.
37:43
They are playing a lot better. Uh huh. That means we're gonna win.
37:46
Yeah, but I would have said put all your money in the end
37:51
of too. I didn't think that everyone in the road game. Oh yeah,
37:54
what dumb ass said they aren't going to six and no, there's no
37:57
way in hell. That was me. That was you calling the dumb ass.
38:07
That was I said, there's no shot they go six and O well
38:10
like coming roll like we could be the dumb ass. So I'm not gonna
38:15
No, no, I was I said, because I didn't think. I
38:17
did not think they'd be Indiana. If they beat a hot state, there's
38:21
a good shot to go six and o seventeen more wins, baby seventeen more
38:24
wins, sixteen right three in the big ten. Oh god. All right,
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well, we will be back at some point, hopefully talking dance,
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going dancing. Jimmy RhoD time