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Episode 6.17: Just a Little Bit Better -- Illinois Recap · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm outside today, gotta keep my voice down so I
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: don't wake the neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: But hunters Areberniki.
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  Speaker 2: Austin Rose to go to Free Tag Monday morning, I
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  Speaker 2: guess is when this is getting released, but we're recording
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night. We've had a couple of days to again everything.
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  Speaker 2: Austin was at the game. Normally it's flipped where Dak
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  Speaker 2: and I are at the game or at the location.
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  Speaker 2: Austin was there, we were not, and Huskers lose in
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  Speaker 2: overtime to Illinois to send us three and one, bumping
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  Speaker 2: us out of the rankings as we expected. Yeah, we're here,
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: We're here. There's been a roller coaster of emotions and thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you guys, I have fifteen twenty bullets PM,
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  Speaker 2: gonna get to all of them. Will probably just jump
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  Speaker 2: around today, which is okay. But yeah, there's a lot,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of emotions and thoughts over the last forty
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  Speaker 2: eight hours. Dak, get your initial thoughts out of the way,
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  Speaker 2: and get you get your initial consolences out of out
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  Speaker 2: on ou because that was a disaster too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we'll talk about you right away.
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  Speaker 1: I am not.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe it is about how Coome and played.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they looked good. Their offense looked absolutely awful.
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  Speaker 3: Their defense I was I was happy with. I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: like pumped about how we played. I'm happy with how
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  Speaker 3: he played.
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  Speaker 4: We hung with him.
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  Speaker 2: Did you go back and watch the game because he
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  Speaker 2: didn't make it through half? Okay, he didn't watch any
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  Speaker 2: of the end when they actually played actually a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better.
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  Speaker 3: But I think we have a different quarterback now that
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  Speaker 3: Dree freshman is gonna be our starter, Jackson Donald in
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  Speaker 3: the tank.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't watch him play at all live last night.
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  Speaker 2: It's all I got is no, I didn't Austin.
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling tonight?
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  Speaker 4: I feel better tonight than I did Friday night and
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: Saturday morning. That was one of those losses that when
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  Speaker 4: you wake up in the morning, you're still like, God,
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  Speaker 4: damn it, that sucked. I don't know. So this is
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  Speaker 4: my first game I went to this year. I ended
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  Speaker 4: up getting free tickets, parking pass a lot nineteen. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it was a nice little setup. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 4: the whole game, it felt not the whole game, but
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  Speaker 4: like when it was seventeen seventeen going into the like
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  Speaker 4: basically the fourth quarter. We scored right at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the fourth it just felt like we were the crowd.
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  Speaker 4: It just felt like we were just we were down
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  Speaker 4: twenty is what it felt like. I mean, everyone was
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  Speaker 4: just absolutely just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe interesting.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's how it's I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 4: we've won all of our home games pretty largely, but
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  Speaker 4: it was just heck, it was kind of tough to
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  Speaker 4: get like the crowd was not getting up for like
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  Speaker 4: the defensive stands until basically the ball is about to
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  Speaker 4: be snapped by the time it started to get loud.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 2: That's fascinating because of what I said from going to
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  Speaker 2: the k State game previous Friday, how the environment just
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  Speaker 2: didn't seem like other games I've been to for two
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  Speaker 2: ranked teams down there even And I do I think
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  Speaker 2: the Friday night impacts that. I think the alcohol impacts it.
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  Speaker 2: There's not as much alcohol drinking there apparently with some
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  Speaker 2: tailgating right deck yep.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't like normal.
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  Speaker 4: The scene was dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean it's Friday, it's workday. That's interesting. You
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  Speaker 2: say that in Austin the game. From watching it on
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  Speaker 2: a TV and just for back around, I was at
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: my sister's wedding, so we had a couple of TVs
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  Speaker 2: like at the venue, and there were obviously a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people watching it during the reception ceremony. The game
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  Speaker 2: just felt like that, Like it was, you never felt
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  Speaker 2: like we were even when we were head at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: It just I never felt good about it at all.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's true that's the same environment at the stadium.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, because like I was trying to tell people because
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  Speaker 4: I was with four other guys or three other guys,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, you know, they're a top twenty
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  Speaker 4: five team. It's tied twenty four to twenty four. We
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  Speaker 4: have the ball with four minutes left in this game.
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  Speaker 4: Like we I don't understand why we feel like I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I understand, but it's like we like everyone stayed. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the stadium was packed the whole game. I have never Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So here's how the end of the game went. You
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  Speaker 4: all know how the overtime went. It was, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: they scored. Stadium just dead silent, totally packed. There's not
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  Speaker 4: anyone saying anything. We get the penalty, go back ten yards.
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  Speaker 4: There's some people yelling at the refs. I forgot how
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  Speaker 4: much of fans are. I didn't realize there's so many
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  Speaker 4: referees in the stands because I mean, it was just
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  Speaker 4: all night was just oh yeah, there was a lot
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  Speaker 4: of repin in the stands. There's but I mean on
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  Speaker 4: that overtime, it was just dead silent the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: And when we got that sack, no one spoke a word.
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  Speaker 4: We all just shuffled out, dead silent, ninety thousand of us.
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  Speaker 4: I then sat in a parking lot for an hour
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  Speaker 4: and a half way to get out, got home at
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  Speaker 4: like two am. It was just a really sad night
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  Speaker 4: and everyone was just crushed. And it felt that way
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  Speaker 4: basically from I honestly the whole game. It felt that way,
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  Speaker 4: even when like because they scored first, right and then we.
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  Speaker 1: From the get go yep, yep, it was it felt
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  Speaker 1: the whole.
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  Speaker 4: Game like we were getting obliterated, even though we had
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  Speaker 4: the lead most of the game.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start out with a positive there, because maybe
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: maybe that's a decent sign that while it felt like
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: we were getting killed, maybe you know we're we obviously
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: we're head a halftime, like had it still have the
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: chances to win the game, but once again didn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's happened a lot. Okay, So.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my head's now at. I'm very upset with myself
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  Speaker 2: for what I said on Wednesday and taking that strong
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  Speaker 2: take the one. What was the third the three things?
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  Speaker 2: It was winning a big game turnover battle. Guess what,
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: we won the turnover battle again two to one, big game.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big game. Didn't win. But the one
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  Speaker 2: score games was a third thing that I convinced myself
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  Speaker 2: before seeing it and getting the proof that we could
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: And Austin, you made you text this Chasing three, Still
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  Speaker 2: Chasing three. That's the name of the doc documentary that's
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: out there. There's a reason why that's the name. We're
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: still doing that. And I I am hurting my hitting
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: myself and beating myself up because I did get my
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  Speaker 2: mind to that point.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think that would happen.
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  Speaker 2: I like, I'm not the most optimistic fan, but my
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  Speaker 2: mind was like no, this is like, this is it.
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  Speaker 2: This is the guy rules, the guy. Ryola is the guy.
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  Speaker 2: We have the team. I mean that's not just no,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, but I'm usually the last one
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  Speaker 2: to jump on that, like I I. I joined, I
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  Speaker 2: joined with the with everybody into that and thinking that
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  Speaker 2: we had it, could have a nine and two, ten
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  Speaker 2: and two. And now my mind is completely reset back
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  Speaker 2: to let's make a bowl game again. And now Rutger
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  Speaker 2: scares me. Rutger scares me. Now going on the road
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  Speaker 2: to Indiana really scares me. Now Purdue I and we
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  Speaker 2: will talk about them on Wednesday in U. C.
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  Speaker 4: L A.
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  Speaker 2: But my mind is just, oh, it was. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a roller coaster, and I'm mad at myself more than anything,
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: more than the game. But you're right, like I had
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  Speaker 2: the feeling Saturday night and and then that next morning,
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  Speaker 2: even though had a wedding and had fun, enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: And it just it just ate at you. And and
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  Speaker 1: then when you add it.
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  Speaker 4: Was one of those losses where you wake up in
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  Speaker 4: the morning you're like you could just still feel it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe.
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  Speaker 2: You had the hangout post wedding hangover to that too.
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  Speaker 2: Had to had to had to get going again on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: get myself doing something. Uh it it just hurt and
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of the close losses last year, like didn't
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  Speaker 2: hurt like this because coach I just I wasn't buying
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: into it. I was just like nope, like we don't
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: win close games. And guess what, we still didn't And
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: now rules one and six in one score games, which
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: is as the same, it might even be worse than
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  Speaker 2: Scott Frost as a percentage like it, We're still here.
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  Speaker 2: I will I am going to shout shout out the
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna find on my phone. There's a really good
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  Speaker 2: graphic and I will end uput hosting it on Twitter
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: when I post a podcast. It's Stu Mangi as Stu
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: Manji is the guy that has and I shared it
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  Speaker 2: with you guys. It goes through our last thirty three drives,
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: which goes back to twenty eighteen of our final offensive
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  Speaker 2: possessions when tighter losing by eight points or less.
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  Speaker 1: So one score games. Guys.
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  Speaker 2: We've had ten different quarterbacks and he put all the
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: different stats in there. Ten quarterbacks, four offensive coordinators, eleven turnovers,
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  Speaker 2: two and a half staffs. We've got one one win.
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  Speaker 1: We've scored on three of them.
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  Speaker 2: It is God, it's fascinating, Like I don't I'm not
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: going to the same surprise because we've known this, like
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  Speaker 2: this is just the numbers behind it.
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  Speaker 1: But man, and we feel like you won the uber
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  Speaker 1: battle this time too, Like it's just it.
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  Speaker 4: You returned to the average right statistically over ya, we
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: just have not turned to the.
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  Speaker 3: Me now, respect where it's due. Illinois looked a lot
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  Speaker 3: better when I thought they were.
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  Speaker 4: Luke Olmyer was.
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  Speaker 3: He looked great.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I guys talk about this because I have an
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  Speaker 2: opinion on this. Just talk about Illinois for a little
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  Speaker 2: bit so then I can get my stuff out and
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  Speaker 2: going myself.
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  Speaker 3: He might have made the biggest jump on any quarterbank
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  Speaker 3: college football. He was awful and he looked he looked
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: great last game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not saying our defense looked incredible, but he
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: made all the right plays. I mean he was outside
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: of I mean he fumbled the ball that one time
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: when he got absolutely drilled in the back. He made
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: all the right plays. And part of this because our
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: defense gave him options to make right plays at times.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: But like athletically, when he got out of the pocket,
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: he looked good. He looked good when he moved in
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  Speaker 4: the pocket. I was very impressed.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Anything else positive to say on Illinois, Yeah, I'm good.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: Just well coached team. They looked better when I thought that.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's.
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  Speaker 4: It could be better than what we thought, better than
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: what we thought before going into the year.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: I think they're pretty good.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: Bila has always done a great job with his teams.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about him in the pre uh pre week good.
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  Speaker 2: I yes, I will give them credit where credit is due.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, I am sick of hearing after losses, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe this team's pretty good, maybe this team's are ranking
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe this team is better than that we've
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: heard it. Like I'm not saying it's wrong, and I'm
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: not saying you guys are wrong, but I it just
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  Speaker 2: feels like at this point, it's it's it's what people
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: are trying out, people are trying to justify it, and
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: I'm just sick of like, no, just just find a
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: way to win the damn game, Like, yeah, maybe that
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: team is okay, but like it I I've heard so
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: many podcasts already talk about that and saying, well, Illinois
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: better the best team they they've have been in five
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  Speaker 2: or six years, Like.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: You don't know that, nobody knows that.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know that, like, yeah, they played well, like
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: but they beat us and we don't. Like again, go
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: back to Colorado. Maybe Colorado is not We don't know that.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: Who was a team we lost to or played close
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: the other couple of years ago, Louisiana Tech, there was
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: the oh the Georgia Stamil or maybe Georgia Southern drol. No,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: maybe they're really good, guys, go back and look at
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: their records when we get to the end of the year,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of these teams they don't end up
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying Illinois won't. Maybe they are.
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: They could. I hope that they are. But maybe Kansas
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  Speaker 2: is not very good. Maybe they're bad. Like I it's
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  Speaker 2: so hard for me to like hear that. And I'm
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: not saying it's an excuse, but people are kind of
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  Speaker 2: using that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Illinois really good.
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  Speaker 2: Why it makes me mad because my mind got me
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  Speaker 2: to saying Illinois, we we are in that same tier
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  Speaker 2: with them in the Big Ten, and I wanted to
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: beat a team like that in the Big Ten. I
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: don't did not ever think we were Michigan and Ohio
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: State Oregon maybe USC throw them in there. Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think we were there, but I kind of
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: got myself and the media did too.
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  Speaker 1: I got us. I think maybe we are in that
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  Speaker 1: six to eight, six.
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  Speaker 2: To nine and ten range, and that includes Illinois, and
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to beat a team like that. But now
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: what do you hear? Oh, Illinois is probably a six
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  Speaker 2: or seven. They're probably maybe the six or seventh best
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  Speaker 2: team in the Big Ten. I'm like, damn it, that's
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: where I want to be though, Like I want to
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  Speaker 2: be that team. I thought we were that team, but
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: we're not because we didn't beat them, So maybe we're
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Luke Omeyer.
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  Speaker 4: Though outside of Luke Omier looking good, it didn't feel
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  Speaker 4: like they were better than us. It felt like we
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: lost that game.
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  Speaker 2: It was like it felt like it was dead ass
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  Speaker 2: even like yeah, and so maybe that maybe that's the
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: positive from a mind of looking at it, I just
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: was thinking that maybe we are there, like maybe we're
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: back to Purdue and UCLA. You guys are dog shit
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  Speaker 2: and we can roll yet because we're not, We're not
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  Speaker 2: bad anymore, and then we're in that next tier with
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  Speaker 2: in these middle of the pack teams including Iowa Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: But now I'm like, nope, Iowa, Wisconsin are better than us,
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  Speaker 2: Like we're the bottom of that next tier of teams.
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  Speaker 2: Where that's the frustrating part where that comes from in
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  Speaker 2: that comment that people are justifying it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I get that the natural way of
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: thinking the odds.
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  Speaker 2: It's frustrating because I had my mind at maybe we
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: could be five or six or seven.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the Big ten, we're not.
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  Speaker 2: So that was that was It's been a big thought
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  Speaker 2: of mine as I as I hear people talk about
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  Speaker 2: the game after the words in the past couple of
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: days of Illinois looked pretty good and I'm like, yeah,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: they did. I mean they had some pieces, they had
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  Speaker 2: some good receivers, a solid running back.
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  Speaker 1: They did, but like, God, can we can we beat
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  Speaker 1: a team like that?
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Can we win? Can can we not make the plays
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: that we need to make? Like you could I could
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: tell rules it's frost. It got to that point with
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: everybody it's like, oh, why why does this keep happening?
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: And if my dad texted me, he said, I don't
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: think we're fine. You know that we can't keep losing
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: games like this. I'm eventually we'll flip. And I'm like,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: we have said that the past three years we have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and statistically you think it would change, but I don't know.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know anymore. Like that, that's where the emotions come.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to believe it. I'm not
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: saying I believe that it's over all hope is lost.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that. But that's the frustration of everything.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: And I don't know what people's minds are. Should we
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: be sad, should we be panicking for rule and staff?
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's the case. Should we just fold
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: all of our cards?
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Are you know?
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  Speaker 2: Are we at the point though where everybody's making excuses?
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I don't hear a lot of them. Like I think
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: people know we lost the game again and here's why,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: and you can list the reasons. Do we just pout
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: and just say stupid Husker football sucks. I don't know
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: how people should react. I guess that's up to the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: individuals on how to respond to a game like this,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: But like I think the best response if people want
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: to go watch it, go watch will come then.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I believe it was.
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  Speaker 2: I think yesterday morning he woke up and talked about
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: you know, sun Rose and basically explain that we could
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: go pout and soulk and he's kind of messaging to
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: the players, But no, like this is now like uses
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: as an opportunity. The season is early, it's young, Go grind,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: learn from what you did wrong, be hard on yourself,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: get up, work even harder the next day, like basically
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: trying to, you know, coach him that way. I still
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: believe that's what the staff is doing too. I think
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: they're a going to have a bitch week of practice
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: and I believe that Purdue is a great game to
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: have to go back and prove yourself and where you're
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: actually at because guys, guys, we're going to be defeated.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Our players will be defeated after that because you do
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: have a sense of confidence and we're moving and then
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: you take it. You think you can beat a team
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: like Illinois, and then they get you in a game
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: that just felt like you said, you had a bad
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: taste in your mouth the whole time. They just did
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: everything a little bit better than us, a little bit better.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like they blew us out of the water
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and dominated us with the line of scrimmage. They did
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: beat us the line of scrimmage. I will say that
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: but it was just a little bit better their quarterback.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Now we'll talk about Royola made just just enough throws.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: He threw a couple of picks, made just enough throws.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: They got just enough stops when they needed to, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: that's what led to the winning. So, like, that's my
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: last thing I'll say here is that winning never comes
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: down to one to two to three plays. You can
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you can say that all you want. It comes down
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to a billion little things throughout the course of a game.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, when all those things stack up and add up,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: that's how the outcome matters.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: And the late game situation stuff.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: You can go through and chart those and that that's great,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: but there are a lot of things that lay out
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: let up to that, and if you do it differently,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: you win that game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: You overlook that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: When you come off three wins and you win, you stop,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: you stop stop nitpicking. Just if we would have won
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: an overtime on Friday, we would not We would not
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: be sitting here nitpicking a lot of little things about
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the game since we lost.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: That's what we do. So that's what makes it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: That's what separates a good from a great coaching staff
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: in a program is to be able to identify that
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: and learn from it and build on it without losing.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Now we didn't do that. I still have faith and rule.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I still think it's gonna be. It's not over, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's going there at all. But I
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: just think there's a little sense of that in me
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: right now as we move on to Purdue this week.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm not making excuses, but I was surprised
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: at how impacted by injuries we were in, Like Alvano's injury,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: our special teams only smokes a backup or sucks you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I mean you, I mean, Eve, it's the field goal.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: But then even on the kickoffs, it was like, I
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: mean because Bikini is doing the kickoffs and they was like,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: oh man, they were returning. I don't know if it
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: was where the ball was being placed or what, or timing,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: but all the special teams was not good in the
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: missfield goal.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: What killed I hate saying this. People call him a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: backup kicker. He's not a backup kicker because he's still
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: listed as an or. I get it, he's not the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: one that normally kicks field goals, but neither one. I
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: don't I don't trust Albano making that either like at all.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I honestly, if rule had gone for it on fourth
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: and three, I would have felt like I totally understand
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: the field.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Will Did that cross your mind at all in the moment.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Yes it did.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: There was weird it didn't for me now yeah, it
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: was just there was other influences there, But it didn't
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: even cross my mind. I just got kick it, like,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and I knew we had a backup kicker. And then
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: as we're getting lined up, I'm like, he's not making this, like.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: That's what happened. Like I mean honestly, I was like, no,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: you have to kick it here. But like when we
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: when it was third and three, I was like, honestly,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: I think I'd run the ball here and go over
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: when we passed it and didn't get the you know.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: We had him he had. I mean, Rayola played a oh.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: When we missed when we missed that passes like okay,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: like I get it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: He knew it. He sat there for so long like
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: new like oh he was so open and and re
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: all talked about that play too. That's not even like
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: a read of the play, Like Riola just has the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: vision to identify that Oh, my gosh, yeah, guys, it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: for the field goal thing is it's ridiculous at this
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: point and we've talked about it at Lanks for a
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: few years now sucks like I do. I'm like, because
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: if you go for it on fourth and three you
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: don't get it, then you go, oh my god.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: We're a Big ten.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Program that is trying to be, you know, a top
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: half of the Big ten team and we can't even
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: kick a thirty nine yarder and make it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But we can't. Like it wasn't even close though that thing.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And in the laces we turned wrong heard that, like
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: it's obviously not all on the kicker at times. Sometimes
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: it is, God damn it, Like how is that not
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: even It's another one of those things just puzzling, like
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: you would think at some point it's gonna flip, like
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: we can't we can't find any kicker to go do that,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Like there's.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Only so many starting kicker spots in the country, like
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: and there's every high school football team has a kicker, Like.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Come on, gosh, like that. It's so puzzling to me.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And I mean, the kicking game was a big special teams.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of other little things. But
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: like I heard someone made the comment maybe it's an
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Ed Foley problem, Like well maybe, like we've we've talked
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: about all the coaches and and the change changes that
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: we need to do there. I don't know, Like I like,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: what do you do coaching that position? Like it just
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: leasy speeches.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Well, we felt we were a little bit approved improved
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: so far this year on special teams. We've talked about it,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: like I feel like the return game has been better,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: the punts have seemed better. Just this game, you you
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: could see the absence of Alvano honestly, not that he
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: would have hit that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Thirty eight years maybe, I mean maybe.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: But it was the kickoffs. Even the kickoffs. It's like
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: the first couple of like he was getting into like
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: the ten yard line and they were returning it for
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: twenty It's like, okay, guys, like what are we Mike,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: can't we just kick it through? And why are we
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: not able to tackle on special teams all of a sudden?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: And the other injury that I mean Corcoran gotcha is
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: getting just obliterated at the end of the game.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, thanks thanks of bringing that up. Yeah, Tommy
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Hill goes down. Now, Tommy Hill gives up the first touchdown,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: gets burned, but then goes down. It actually does. I
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: think it's Planner fasci itis is what we've heard. Like,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: that's not gonna be as.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: That's not a click.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: No they get that's stayed with you. That sucks, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: then corkorand goes down. I haven't heard you guys heard,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard details. I haven't either gun or Gatula
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: comes in. We've talked about our offensive Mike Mazuka throughout
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the week. Maybe we'll play. Maybe you want personal issues,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: we don't know, Maybe argument with a coach, don't know
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: what's going on, doesn't end up playing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, our offensive line looks very thin.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: The injuries. Tommy Hill injury.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I actually thought his backup came in for blanking on
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: his name right now, but actually came in, did a
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: solid job. We'll talk about our defense here in a second.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: The offensive line, like right now, guys, there are there's
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: deer in the headlights right now going on for me,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And we kind of started brushing off and maybe felt
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: okay about our offensive line again, and then now a
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: couple of injuries happen and you start looking at depth,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: and you start looking at the type of players that
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you want on the offensive line, and then the impact
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: it has in all parts of your game. We just
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: get reminded of it again. Just got to keep that
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: on the forefront of how important an offensive line is
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: for passing the ball, pass protection, obviously running the run game.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: It's the core.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And I thought we got beat there, very handled both
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: both sides, but offensive line, we just couldn't get a
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: run game going.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Rushing yards.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was in the seventies too,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: but sacks.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: The worst line, the worst pot back upends line is
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: it went to ship when you need it most, over
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: time and towards the end.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Of the game. And it, yeah, like over time, Ryola
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: got pressured and I don't think, I mean whatever the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: reason was tired, fatigue, physicality just wore on us.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: He did, and he did.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: He ran backwards and looked like Dak playing NCAA twenty five,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like when he gets pressured, just starts running backwards and
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: either get sacked or you know, tries to throw it
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: away or got intensional grounding like combinations, offensive line, quarterback
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: whatever there. But it if you can't establish a run
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: game and get complimentary football going. That word comes back
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and back as rules used it. That's what it looks like.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And I don't know.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: We've talked about what is our identity, our theme, what
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: are we trying to do on offense this year? Last
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: year we knew, we knew, I mean, it was very
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: one dimensional because our quarterbacks were very limited. Like where
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: are we going moving forward with this offense? Like, I
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: don't know, And maybe we don't have to know right
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: now that that's where my head's out.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's needed yet.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: But by the time we hit three or four weeks
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: from now, coming off that bye week, I think we
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: need to know what our identity is, how much of
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the run game is, how important is that to winning
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: football games. I think it's very like I think it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: at most high importance.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: But the challenge with that is who we got at quarterback?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And I guess any more talk on the offensive line
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: because I'm switching gears.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: No, just that they were getting beat. Corcoran was much more.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, we knew it was gonna be thin, but
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I mean it was very obvious that he was not
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: out there.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I go ahead, I think.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I mean it's pretty obvious. But the the main reason
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: why guys lost is because of the two lines. I
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: don't think your D line played that great either.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: No, I agree.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I want to stick on offense here and then we
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: can go jump on defense because I think there's a
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: talking point there too.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Guys, can we talk about right Oliver A second?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: This guy is as we knew, but like he is legit.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I mean that's where I struggle, Like, yes, I really do,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: like I believe it that you need to have a
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: run game first before you start going to extra step.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: But he's he has the potential of being a lot
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: better than a field general that we initially kind of
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: thought that he we needed him to be.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I mean he's touchdown and the interception I mean obviously
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: a fluke play, but the ball placement on the interception
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and on the actual touchdown Jamal Banks drakes his toe
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: like wow.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And both interceptions that's happened, I mean another gain fluke thing,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: unlucky snake bit and whatever you want.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: To call it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta gotta find a way to secure
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: that that's not on obviously the quarterback. There's interceptions that
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you can watch and clearly it's a bad thrower. About
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: to read those were not and yeah, you mentioned a
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: couple of them, but how I mean, just watching that
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: second half, especially how many balls did he just dropped
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: dimes in places.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I mean awkward.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: We talk about his hip and torque and awkward positions
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: that he throws. I mean, good god it, guys, it's impressive.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: And I say that all as that's what puzzles me
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: with our offense. I think Saderfield is doing a pretty
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: damn good job right now of trying to put the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: pas together and figure out where we're at. We need
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: to have that set in stone though here in two
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: or three weeks. I mean, sometimes you just go to
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: your you go to your ball, or you go to
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: your player and say, nope, this is where we're going,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and that maybe the direction we're heading. I don't I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: don't know how I feel about that. But he's he's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: legit and he's good and we've seen a couple of mistakes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: But like so, he had a couple of freshman moments
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: there the fourth quarter and over when he fumbled it
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: twice in a row.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: We recovered him, but it's like, Okay.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: There's some and and there's gonna be some and but
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the amount of unbelievable type of throws that he was making, Oh, man,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: like it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: We have something special now.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: The one thing that I don't like is his lack
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: of ability to maybe run that. I thought maybe he
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: had a little bit more in him and maybe Illinois
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: did scheme up a good plan.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Well I don't know if he does. I mean it's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: like laugh like Mahomes.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Like Mahomes doesn't want to run either, but when needed
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: he can escape and run with all yards.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: I think he needs to be a little more loose
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: with like, Okay, I'm gonna just gonna run and see
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: how far I get. But I understand I don't want
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: to get hurt, so I'm fine with it. I'd rather him,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: you know, make it back to the minus scrimmage and
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: get sacked, then run and get hurt for four yards.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: But the main thing is when he goes back to past,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: you're not like the last couple of years where you're like, oh,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: this can't terribly.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Right and terribly He's usually able to get it out
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: of bounds or grounding or something.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll say to shout out this evening. Maybe you
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: guys haven't even seen it because it was last couple
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: of hours Dayton Riola did commit today.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I did see that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's good. It keeps it on.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I haven't watched him as much, and I don't think
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: anything he's a three star, right, I.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Don't think he's like he's going.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, it is cool to that
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: gives me a little a little bit of confirmation of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: maybe where the family's at on Nebraska, because here was
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: my initial before this all happened, my initial my thought
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: around Dylan I got I get scared, and I've talked
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: about this. I don't know where braill Is mind will
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: be at the end of the year, pending how the
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: year goes. This game, he played pretty damn well, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: he's gonna beat himself up about the one throw. But
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: if we end up going seven and five and lose
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: one score games and he plays well in all of them,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: where do you think his head's gonna be at? Like, yeah,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: as a good teammate. But at the same time, when
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: you're getting paid that much money, if he's not the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: problem and there's other areas that are the problem, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't have confidence, you know, through the coaching
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: staff and what he's getting told.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: If he doesn't have the confidence that those can get fixed.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: He has the talent and ability to go easily transfer
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and start at a big school. Like he's proving that
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: and showing that. I'm not I'm putting that out as
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: a feeler right now. I don't think that's going to happen,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: especially with Dayton committing now. I like that eases me
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: a lot, but I we have to appreciate what we
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: have with him.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: We do.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: We have to appreciate it because he is special and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: if other things don't piece together around him, he's been
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: the one constant we've had this year that has been solid.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: We thought our defense maybe was that let's switch to
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: talk about them here for a little bit.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: We got exposed and out coached.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: We thought Tony White, you know, we talked about how
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: he's I said, he's gone after this year because someone
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: else is grabbing him and we won't be able to
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: afford keeping him here. This was light bulb number one
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: or exclamation point number one that went off of Okay,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: how are we going to you know, what are we
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: gonna do moving forward? Because we did, we got out
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: schemed and coached. My big take on the defense, and Dak,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: you talked about it with the defensive line. I'll let
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: you go here in a second. I think we were
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: confident that those guys were better than they were, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: we trusted those guys to get pressure on passing downs
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: and to clog up the run game and not get moved.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Our backer's going to make tackles in our base defense,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: and we did not get too exotic and creative. That
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: was a concern going in, is how creative we were
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: going to be. We felt good about how good they were,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: and we got exposed, and over the course of a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: game against a very physical team, not so much ground
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: and pounds, still spread running, they beat our defensive line
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: or our front seven, and the run game complimented the
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: pass game, and it resulted in Illinois beating us. That's
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: the bottom line I think of what happened, and there's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of little other things, But Dak, like, what
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: else did you see on the defensive side.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Like you said, you just got out coached.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: I thought it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys were blitzing that much
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: or what, but I just feel like you could not
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: get any pressure. Almeyer had all day to pick your part,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: and I guess he's good enough now that you can't
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: let him have time do that.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: And that middle of the field was just killer.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, I wouldn't say you're defense played awful but expected
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: to be better.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, I agree they for they did force the fumble wing,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: it's like, we need a turnover now like this, like
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: you guys have not not that they haven't held up
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: there end of the deal, but it's like, all right,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: we need to turn on. And then they immediately got one.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: So I mean like they did win the turnover battle,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: but they did get beat.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: We didn't get we didn't get demolished. But again, it
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: was that much better. It's all it took. And like
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: you said that, that was the whole feeling, like going
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: big picture back to the beginning, that was the whole
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: feeling of just unease the entire game. From that first
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: drive when they go out to score methodic.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, we might not be able to stop this.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: It was and I don't even know that I my
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: mind went to not be able to stop it. It
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: was like huh, like they just slowly put together a
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: drive and then my mind like, okay, that's just the
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: first drive because they had it, you know, uh planned.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: They had their script for the first drive. I'm like that,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that's what that was.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Like, that's okay, But I was like what And then
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the rest of the game, even though they didn't score,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: because our defense did kind of then come through a
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: couple of times, they just seemed to, you know, four yardsier,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: seven yards heer, Oh there's the quick seven yard out.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Oh seven yard out again?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, play action flat like it was just slow and methodical,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and over time Brett Beelima's type teams, the old Wisconsin
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: teams and the similar type of concept that we see
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: from a lot of Big ten teams. It wears anya
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: if you're not used to playing it. And who have
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: we played so far this year? Two teams that couldn't
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: run the ball at all and spread it out, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: then a team that couldn't throw the ball at all
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: that just could run it. And now he faced the
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: team that was pretty good at both not not phenomenal,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: They just were okay, and we weren't ready for it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: It wasn't Scott Frost level where we prepared for the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: wrong front and identified the wrong front. It wasn't like
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: like that but just a little bit more and that's
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: what got him to win. And a getting credit to Illinois, like,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I think that is a solid football team, but I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: don't want to say Illinois is gonna go nine to
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: three and and you know they're not. They're just in
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: that next tier with us, and god damn it, I
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: thought we could beat them.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it just was we cannot get them the stops
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: we needed to get the stops outside of getting the turnover.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: We needed the turnover, but we were in position to
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: win the game and we didn't. Offense and defense like
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: that last drive before punting and going overtime, we needed
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: a turnover. Defense, they got it. We need the offense
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: to move down the field put us in position for
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: particular lead. Did that we missed the fucking field goal? Now?
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: What were the refs in the stands staying about that
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: at the end of the game.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, the miss call?
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: People wanted to nuts. What did you guys think that
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: should have been flagged?
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Uh? Probably, but not being flagged. It's fine that it
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: wasn't egregious.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: It was definitely it definitely could have. But you know
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: where our mind's going. I'm like, I don't think we looked.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: We looked like a dead duck out there, like if
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: we got the first down, okay, great now, It's basically
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: it would have been like restarting overtime, we would have
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: a ball about the twenty two yard line first, like
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: still having to score a touchdown.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Guys, are our overtime performances. It's just oh my god.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: It's like I my mind went into that when we
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: got to overtime because our defense gotta stop at the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: end of regulation. I'm like, okay, good, Like we've been
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: so bad and overtime, Like we're gonna win one in
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: overtime because we can. We have done nothing in overtime
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: in the past year, however many years, so we're gonna
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: get one, Like we can't. It can't happen again, right,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: And then what do you know? Twenty three yard run touchdown.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh god, here we go.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And then sack sack sack. Oh that'll be kidding me.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Like it it was almost like after that big run,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: we're like, nope, never mind, like we're not winning. It's
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: not happening, and everybody just knew it and the players
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: knew it, and here we go and over and and
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: that that that is the winning mindset that this coaching
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: staff is tasked with flipping. I mean, that's that's their
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: bottom line, disregard everything else. We said tonight, that is
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: the number one thing is the coaching staff has to
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: figure out how to get the winning culture back in
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Nebraska so we win games like this, and rule said
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: we're a winning team. We said, maybe that was pre
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: jumping the gun a little bit, might have been. So
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: we have that. They have to figure that out to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: win games. And we're gonna have an opportunity Saturday and
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: the next three Saturdays for Saturdays to do that against
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: teams that are in our tier or below us. And
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: we have to find a way to do that.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, those I don't know. So after you say
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Illinois scored too, yeah, it just seemed like the team's
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: just like, well, this is the game over. Yeah, big,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Your offense posession was quick and done. It was like
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: you don't know about a here.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'm out of thoughts, out of time for now, it's late.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Any last words. Shout out Lady Oscars. I'll do my
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: shout out for them tonight.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Lady Huskers. Shoutout of Fred Hoiberg, who I stood behind
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: waiting to get to the stadium, taller than I expected.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Go Fred, go big Fred. All right, go Bigred. We'll
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: see you Wednesday.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Give you are boomer sooner