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Episode 6.49: Champions · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they return to Glory podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's been a few weeks. Hunter's Arbadiki Austin Rose,
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: the code of free tag. A lot has happened, a
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: lot going on. We were just talking before. I'm freaking scrambling.
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  Speaker 2: I it's gonna be a fire off as quick as
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  Speaker 2: we can here. I got food making in the air
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: fiar in prayer that go off in a couple of seconds.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: Dak just got his wisdom teeth poled last week.
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  Speaker 3: I am yellous of whatever you're making in the air.
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  Speaker 4: Frar and you, Dak, what's your what's the status?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's not bad. Wasn't you that I could open
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  Speaker 5: my mouth for like a month?
• 0:58
  Speaker 6: My bottom left tooth is killed me. But other than that,
• 1:00
  Speaker 6: it's not too bad.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad that's a pen. I thought what you
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: were holding was a syringe. No like shoot yourself up
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: with as Life's been normal right for you?
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  Speaker 5: Just busy, just busy, you know. I was disappointed that
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  Speaker 5: we kept pushing off the pot. I really wanted to
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  Speaker 5: pot after that first week of the tournament because my
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  Speaker 5: bracket was and then it was just a house of
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  Speaker 5: cards and came tumbling down.
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  Speaker 4: But man, I started out warm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's been I mean, yeah, it's been three weeks
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  Speaker 2: I think since we've last pot, or more than that,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't thought it since the March madness started. So, Austin,
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  Speaker 2: your bracket was hot. Mine was hot, and I had
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win the pool because I had Houston,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of pools i'd been I had. I was
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  Speaker 2: doing so well Houston. Yeah, I love you, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Kelvin Samson couldn't quite get her done, but I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was doing really well in the one bracket that
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: I put time into, which usually is never the case.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had a good bracket like
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  Speaker 2: this that I've thought about. I've been telling people that, like,
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  Speaker 2: usually I'm horrible and the random ones that I auto
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  Speaker 2: generate do really well, but not this year. This year
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  Speaker 2: was the exception that I kind of picked chocky and
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  Speaker 2: that's the way it went for the tournament, and it
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  Speaker 2: paid off, but not literally because Houston didn't win, so
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't even get in the top money.
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  Speaker 5: That's unfortunate. Yeah, Like I was ranked one thousands on
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  Speaker 5: ESPN after the first two rounds and I didn't go
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  Speaker 5: super unchalky there's a lot of two seeds, but my
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  Speaker 5: two seeds fell apart.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I started out great in the beginning first rounds and
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  Speaker 6: then just completely felt part like I I think i'd
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  Speaker 6: like twenty three percent right, and then something like forty.
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  Speaker 3: It was terrible after that.
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  Speaker 5: Freaking calm Perry. I'm a firm believer. Always pick against
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  Speaker 5: the maternity, the bad coach, good recruiter, bad coach. Give
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  Speaker 5: him the first round, I'll lose the second round. Coursey
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  Speaker 5: knocks out.
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  Speaker 4: Of Saint John.
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  Speaker 2: If we're I know we're not talking about the most
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  Speaker 2: important topic on a Nebraska sports podcast right now, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll get the NCAA tournament talk out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: I thought overall, like, I am very satisfied and happy
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  Speaker 2: with the tournament how it went. I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are They like the Cinderellas, they like madness,
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: they like buzzer beaters. We got a couple of those.
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  Speaker 2: These last final four games were great. Here's the thing,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a committee, you did your job right. If
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  Speaker 2: all the one seed's made it, you picked the four
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  Speaker 2: best teams. They'll leave the top of every bracket, and
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  Speaker 2: almost all the two seeds as well. Besides one three seed,
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  Speaker 2: like you did your job as you're a committee, You're
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  Speaker 2: feeling pretty dang good. And it led to us in
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  Speaker 2: good basketball games, especially in the Final four. All three
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  Speaker 2: of those games were I mean, lived up to expectations
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  Speaker 2: with how good those teams are.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean I have no complaints.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not one that need to see Cinderella's I actually
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  Speaker 2: like good teams playing good teams in the you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen, Elite eight and beyond, versus having a ten
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  Speaker 2: seed in their walls kind of cool, but then have
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  Speaker 2: an attendense to go get blown out like later on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like if you're gonna have your Cinderella. You know,
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  Speaker 5: cal Perry was a good Cinderella. You know, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: this is a face we know in a new setting.
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  Speaker 4: It was good.
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  Speaker 5: I I did not watch as much of it as
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  Speaker 5: I have in the past, partly because I was saving
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  Speaker 5: my basketball for you know, the Crown Tournament.
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  Speaker 4: But it was good. I was disappointed. I really liked watching.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a Duke fan, but you know what, I
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  Speaker 5: was disappointed that they didn't make the championship.
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  Speaker 4: But the way they lost is that's gonna be.
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  Speaker 5: An eternal, like everyone's always gonna remember that that when
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  Speaker 5: Duke lost to Houston.
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  Speaker 6: See, okay, I'll get the tournament here, but that dude
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  Speaker 6: Houston game, I'm so mad.
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  Speaker 3: I took a pain pill. They'll slip in five seconds
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  Speaker 3: if I missed it. I woke up, I look up.
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  Speaker 5: Those paint med cations are like, they're pretty nice. They're
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  Speaker 5: pretty good. Sleep on those things.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes they knocked me out. Something they didn't. That
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  Speaker 3: time it knocked me out. I was hoping to keep
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  Speaker 3: me up.
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  Speaker 6: But I woke up as that last Duke shop was
• 5:12
  Speaker 6: going in, and my eyes were so messed up. I
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  Speaker 6: thought I went in and I found back asleep. So
• 5:16
  Speaker 6: I thought it was ot that night, but walk up
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  Speaker 6: next morning it wasn't. But I thought the first two
• 5:22
  Speaker 6: rounds of the tournament were not good at all, Like
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  Speaker 6: there was not many close games in those first two rounds.
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  Speaker 3: But then I'm with you.
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  Speaker 6: I like the blue Bloods are like not Sinderel's basically
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  Speaker 6: making it pass those two rounds because then we got
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  Speaker 6: great games from there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this, this final foreign champion is probably the
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  Speaker 3: best there's been.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I probably was more into the tournament this year than
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  Speaker 2: any other year, just from wanting to watch good basketball
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of these teams and I of defense,
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: and no matter if it's football, basketball, whatever sport, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these teams have some very tough, defensive type
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  Speaker 2: minded coaches. Now, the team that won it was the
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  Speaker 2: team probably with the best offense in the most explosive
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  Speaker 2: offense in Florida, but they also obviously work their asses
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  Speaker 2: off on defense as well. Yeah, like I said, overall,
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  Speaker 2: like I give it an a tournament, I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Just the beginning rounds that, Yeah, you like to see
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  Speaker 2: some some people do it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Like.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool those mid major teams and them can pull
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  Speaker 2: off a twelve five, which I guess.
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  Speaker 5: That's what makes it exciting. No one, if you if
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  Speaker 5: every top seed won that you wouldn't care. But you
• 6:42
  Speaker 5: don't want them to win every game. You want them
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  Speaker 5: to win that first game and then it's like okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they core.
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  Speaker 4: Performers by Big ten teams.
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  Speaker 3: Though yes I was looking at this before.
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  Speaker 6: You forget how many times Florida could have lost his
• 6:59
  Speaker 6: tournament four fourth street game, fourth straight game. Yeah, I
• 7:02
  Speaker 6: can't remember their first who they played their first natch,
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  Speaker 6: they probably killed them. But anyway, but Yukon they should
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  Speaker 6: have probably lost to for sure, Texas Tech and the
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  Speaker 6: Duke or not Duke.
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  Speaker 5: Not Duke Florida who they Michigan State.
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  Speaker 3: Now Florida be Texas Tech, Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but who? What were the four teams that they
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  Speaker 4: were trailing trailing to.
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  Speaker 6: Is Yukon, Texas Tech, Houston and I can't remember the
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  Speaker 6: fourth one. But they should have lost all four of
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  Speaker 6: those games, and they just found a way at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, but I agree like Florida was
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  Speaker 2: all these games kind of were that way.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them were.
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  Speaker 2: That's what made it kind of cool, Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: did the best team win?
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're the one that beat everybody else. But
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  Speaker 2: there were so many good like the staff that I
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: saw that amazed me was the Ken Pom like top
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  Speaker 2: ten rated teams in the history of the Ken Pom
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  Speaker 2: ratings in the last whatever twenty years for the top
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  Speaker 2: ten where the final four teams is here, like just
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  Speaker 2: from an efficiency standpoint on what they do on both sides.
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  Speaker 4: Of the ball, they're good teams, man, good.
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  Speaker 5: Teams like it was. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was good basketball, and like I like we said
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  Speaker 2: that the final four lived up to it. Guys, we
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: have failed as a podcast because we just spent ten
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: minutes talking about random bullshit when Nebraska are the.
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  Speaker 4: Fact of CHAMPSOB.
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  Speaker 5: Like, holy cow.
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  Speaker 2: We could talk about this for probably two hours in itself.
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm dying to now. My brother listened to our pod.
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  Speaker 5: He was very upset with your takes on Fred Weiberg
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  Speaker 5: and at the end of season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's the thing. I I was. The end
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  Speaker 2: of the year, I was, I was, I was deflated,
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, we want to talk about Fred to start,
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: let's talk about it. I was very concerned, very concerned,
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  Speaker 2: like red Flag, we are not playing hard for Fred anymore,
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  Speaker 2: Like towards the end of the year. We failed as
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  Speaker 2: a program the last three or four weeks of the
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: season by not beating teams that we should have beat.
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  Speaker 2: Lost a lot of close games, got blown out in
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  Speaker 2: some games, and I'm just like, crap, Like I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that this team wants to play for Fred anymore.
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  Speaker 5: And I think I did say it.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree with the take, like if we would
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: have went out against Arizona State, who I didn't even
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: know how bad they were at the time, thirteen and
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: eighteen or nineteen, whatever their record was, it was not good.
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  Speaker 2: It would have lost that game and got beat I
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: would my opinion would not have changed about Fred. That
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: would have basically proven what I suspected or what I
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: thought was happening. Here's the thing would happen, though it
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: went the complete opposite and watching us play in their
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  Speaker 2: crown and haveata with this is the crown, the NCAA tournament.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: No are these teams in the crown? Are they necessarily
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote good? Probably not, I guess, but they're not Again,
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  Speaker 2: what what the what your definition of good is? They're
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: not NCAA tournament teams? You know, Boise State was probably
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: the closest bubble team. You know that we got. Yeah,
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of injured players in some of
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: these teams or opt outs, transfers, whatever you want to
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: call it. I get all of that. Like, I totally
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: understand that argument. And maybe people say, why are we
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: getting excited over a that's the pessimisic in Austin. You
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: probably thought I was going to have that view.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: Potentially, I don't know what I did not have any
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: I had no idea.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: What my thought was this whole Crown thing. You have
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to go play, and once you agree to
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: go play as a competitor of any program, of a team,
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: if you're playing for Fred, if your Fred, go out
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  Speaker 2: and win the damn thing, no matter who you're playing,
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  Speaker 2: if you're playing the Sisters of the Blind and Death,
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: or if you're playing Duke, like, go out and compete
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  Speaker 2: and try to win every game possible. And we did
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: that for four straight games. And again, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what you want to say about the quality of the
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: other team. I'm gonna say the Crown was a better
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: field than the NIT, and I think that's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: common take just in general. The NIT looked to get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the smaller to mid major type teams
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: where there are a lot of more power conference teams
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  Speaker 2: now where they the best. No, because they're in the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. But like I, this is what best you
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: can do, right with the situation that you were given.
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  Speaker 2: You elected to play in it. Okay, that's the first thing,
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  Speaker 2: and I would have been very disappointing if we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I think Fred made that comment. I'm glad we chose
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  Speaker 2: to play in this tournament, Like yay, once you choose,
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  Speaker 2: now you're in and now let's see what program, what
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  Speaker 2: kind of competitors, what the motivation level is of everyone
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  Speaker 2: in the program. And that proved that it was all there,
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: and we came out winning the Crown Championship. Like bottom
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  Speaker 2: line that we did the best we could in this tournament.
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  Speaker 2: We're one of very few teams in the country to
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: play your last game and win it of the of
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  Speaker 2: the season.
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: Incredible that we're Crown champions, We've won the n it
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  Speaker 5: we still have get to win a tournament game. Absolutely
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  Speaker 5: incredible stat And then who's the real winner here? I mean,
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: you go to the tournament, you lose, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: second third round, you don't get any cash. They got
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  Speaker 5: three hundred k, you know, almost incentive to not make
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  Speaker 5: the tournament. I'd rather be the bubble win that thirty k.
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  Speaker 2: That's a that's a great conversation, like that is something
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  Speaker 2: that you know, now we need to win our first
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: tournament game. Don't get me wrong, you need to get that.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's number one.
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  Speaker 5: But as a player, as a player, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 5: would I rather be this the chance to win three
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  Speaker 5: hundred thousand or probably lose, like if you're on the bubble.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, I don't know, it would be kind of
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: nice to not be in Mike those first four in
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  Speaker 5: or last four.
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  Speaker 2: And I should say, I'll say that until we freaking
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: get a wins, we need to win one.
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: That's true. You're wrong, You're wrong.
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  Speaker 5: I have I'm definitely on the make the turning and
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: win train. But it's just an interesting the interesting dynamic.
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  Speaker 6: It's so at least they came out and fought, because
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  Speaker 6: you see a lot of other teams that like when
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  Speaker 6: they don't like a coach, they don't play for their
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  Speaker 6: coach at all. So at the end of the season
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  Speaker 6: here they came out fought. I mean it was like
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  Speaker 6: it wasn't a massive tournament, but it was. It was
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  Speaker 6: still a good thing they came out. Now they start
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  Speaker 6: out in the Arizona State game like.
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  Speaker 3: They did at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 6: There you thought, well, it's this same team and then
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  Speaker 6: found a way at the end and you might have
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: found a star.
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  Speaker 3: Kil Jacobson, Well, I pause on that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get into that yet. I think
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: this format and the talk of the tournament because there's
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: a big storyline with some of the players here is
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: you know, the money, the prize money and and what
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: that means. I guess for these players. I remember who
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: it was, if it was Bryce or Juan one of
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: the guys said it. It wasn't like like it's all
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: or nothing for this money type of pep talk when
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: they're thinking about it. But it's it's a nice added bonus.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the split is or how they're
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: divvying that up.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know when when they won their the semi
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: finals game, Juwan was you know, the whole one game.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: He should and and so yeah, while yeah, the tournament
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: is what it's new, it's brand new, right, nobody knows
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: really what it was and what it is yet no
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  Speaker 2: one there, I.
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  Speaker 5: Mean, very good.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: I don't anticipate people probably to go. No one goes
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: to the n I T games either besides your your fans, right,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Nebraska fans took that place over. Okay, I am going
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: to go off on a little tangent here. I thought
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: it was hilarious. I've never seen anything like it. Did
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: you guys watch the Georgetown game and did you see
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: what fans you got guys are I was busy. There
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: was a Nebraska fan that sat right next.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: To end Yes on the bench.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Three fourths of the game, and it was just incredible.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: And so to the background story, there's it's an NBA
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: arena or location type of thing, so kind of like
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: however that it's set up so there's four seats right
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: besides the scorers table on both sides for fans to
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: sit at, and then there's like a little break and
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: then there was the betch well on Nebraska side there
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: we weren't using those four seats, and then eventually four
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: guys did come sit down there that were in like
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: generic business clothes, like neither team. On the other side,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: there was one Husker fan and I heard his name
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: on some other podcasts, but he sat there and the
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Georgetown coaches in the meantime kind of were just using
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: that as an extension of their bench. In addition for
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Ed Cooley, their head coach, sitting and there are several
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: pictures of him sitting right next to Ed Cooley and
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: like we would hit a three and he would just
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: be like like clapping, and there were as it was
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: the best thing ever, Like I if you heard that fan.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you're supposed to react, but it
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: was I thought that was so funny, Like I was
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: just picturing trying to coach a basketball game and there's
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: a random fan from the other team just sitting in
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: the middle of your bench like as you're like coaching.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Credible lasted for so long until finally someone from the
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: tournament site came up and said, Hey, would you want
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: to switch to these four other guys to the other
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: side so you can put it, And he's like, okay, yeah,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: so he did.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: I wish if I didn't have things going on, I
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: definitely would have potentially, because there's a Spirit Airline they
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: do a Thursday Sunday flight out of Omaha, Man that
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: would have been a tempting flight mm hmm.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: But because the tickets were hell at cheap.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: I mean, you could have sat right behind the scores
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: table for freaking.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Ninety ten Nebraska fans, if not more. And I don't
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: know if those are Nebraska fans that traveled, they probably
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: were a handful, but we also just have fans kind
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: of scattered throughout the country too, so like it was
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: pretty cool. I think it was the season three to
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: tie it in the championship game is a picture I
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: kind of saw floating around on social media that the
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Husker fans just went up and went nuts.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: It was neat like it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: It was so loud on there too, the go bigger
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: at school, I mean, the fan base. It was like
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: everything was built up for so long, now outside of volleyball,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: but built up for so long, just frustration with like
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: the basketball and football teams specifically. I'm like, God, we
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: just can't win anything. We're cursed, and we just were
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: able to let it all go. And when we when
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: we kind of had that game one and we're coming
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: back and so again, not that fans is are anything,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: we deserve nothing, We're fans, but it was a neat
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: moment I think for all of the Husber nations.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: And I mean honestly, like the whole tournament, you go back,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: it really wasn't. I mean, I'll say at the start,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: and then there was a brief moment in the championship
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: game where you're like, uh, oh it we played well
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: like I didn't. It wasn't like a strench of frustration
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: where I was like, oh my gosh, this freaking team.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: But it was good. Uh yeah, And.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Then, I mean, we're going to talk about player some
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: players rolling Wooster done.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, so.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Not that we want to talk about Raleigh. But so
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: that was a lot of people that I've talked to
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: their least favorite player because of what you know. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I do think he had part of the senior leadership peach,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: which is why he played a lot.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: But was he there?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if he was there. I don't think. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and neither so he doesn't play so in steps not
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: right away to start, but first game airsona state in
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: steps Cale Jacobson.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Who didn't play at all this year at all.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I mean I think the stat was like I saw
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: someone like it was he scored eight total points the
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: entire year including mop up time.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Yea, And yeah, like didn't play at all?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Right steps then and game one happens and our best
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: five to end that Arizona State game did not involve
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: any of our bigs. We were playing Sam, Kale, Connor, Bryce,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: and Juan. That was our best five that played the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: last like nine minutes. No no Mia, no Morgan. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: those five are the ones that finished out that first game.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, who who could have even predicted or thought
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: that right, like that's it's amazing to be honest, but
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that was our I could have.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Is that just a product of like we're not playing
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: big ten games anymore, we don't need the size, or
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: if it's just like like Fred's kind of been like
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: the fuck it, like all right, let's see what happens
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: and then it worked, well a little bit of it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Deck?
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Or is it mar your bigs are just not good?
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Like Burke has been awful since I he was terrible
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: again in this tournament.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: May me and you know you're gonna get from him.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: He's awful to instantly. I actually liked Morgan a lot,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: so I don't I don't.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Say any bad about him, but but yeah, your bigs
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: aren't very good. I think that's the main part.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's very matchup dependent. Arizona State was not
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: big inside, they're big, I believe. If I remember the game,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: right was a freshman, skinny guy that wasn't that much
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: of an impact, right, And so I think when we
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: got to the you know, we went on our little
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: run in the second half against Arizona State and we
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: saw who that lineup was.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Fred's like.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Like, yes, we'll play these five and then it kept
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: working and kept working and kept working to the point
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: that you're like that was interesting. So then the next
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: three games, Hal Jacobson entered the starting lineup and plays,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I believe, besides Bryce, the most minutes in Game two
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: against Georgetown and finishes starting and I mean playing very
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: very well. And that also was at the demise. Like
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Barrikay that last game against UCF, he didn't play and
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: he might have played the last minute of the first half,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: and then he played a little bit in the second half.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: He didn't play much.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Morgan came in was the big guy when we needed one.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You're right, big ten big men are very different than
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the teams we played, so I do think you still
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: need especially defensively.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: But here's the thing. Hail proved he can.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Guard pretty much any position as well, including big men.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You're guarding it differently, right, You're not banging them, You're
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: more fronting them, being underneath them, small guys, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: kind of the Pat Bev Reggie Jackson on Kevin Durant
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: type of comparison where you're just underneath them all the time.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: And played so well, right, like you want to give
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: an MVP.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: He out to the tournament as far as what you
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: didn't expect coming in, I mean, pal Jacobs, like, come.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: On, obviously, Yeah, that was impressive.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And I mean he definitely deserves the conversation and moving
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: forward with Kale. I don't know, like he might have
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: earned himself, you know, a starting spot at a smaller
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Division I school somewhere. And I'm not saying he's not
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: starting here next year because it's probably a chance he
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: did the last few games here, but with the portal
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and everything that we will talk about. Who knows, but CaAl,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I mean deservedly a Nebraska guy walk on that just
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: earned his earned his spot in a big way, very
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: big part of this Crown championship.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: It was wild.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I It's just one of those things where I just
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: don't know. I just want to know what what Bread
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: was like. Okay, now we'll use him like he's he
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: was there the whole year.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I I don't man a guy like that,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: you don't know until it's weird. I think he had
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: respect for him because he did get put in some
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: he was the next man up. And what's funny, you
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: know he's not he's kind of a point guard, played
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of it just towards the end here, you know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: with the size, maybe you worry a little bit about
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: you know, pressure and all of that. Uless he had
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: a couple of decent moments in the Crown that we
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: kind of haven't seen, but I don't. I've never been
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: a big air In Ulis guy, which is why I've
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: always thought Rawley is a better option, because Ulis I
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: just a'm like, no, like, he's Rally's a little bit bigger,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: thick bodied, like has a little more I think leadership
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and demand and control on the court. So I've never
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: been a big Ulis guy. And and I mean hail
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: pretty much as Leak frogged him in the in this tournament.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: So like again, going into next year, point guard wise,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I think we got our guy. And talk about trains
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: for portal here in a second, but yeah, shout out
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Kale uh Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Also, you know, shout out Brice and Juan, you know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: getting out on a good note good. I mean, Bryce
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: had the most points in the season for Husker, passing
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: James Palmer Jr.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I did to think about that name real quick. JP.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: What's nice about these tournaments is you can go out
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: and try different stuff like that, with like Kal and
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: all that, because you're you're not gonna roll that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Out in the middle of the Big Ten season, like say.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: This term doesn't happen, Kale goes to transfer somewhere and
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: no one gives a crap right now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: But now now you kind of want to keep him.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: And now if people want him, yeah, now now.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: You want to keep him.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: So that's that's about probably the best thing you can
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: get from this turm.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: And who knows, if he stays, he'll.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Probably he probably won't start next year here, but he
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: could go now and he's got yeah, he maybe he could.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I think that that's gonna be the big decision for him. Austin,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you mentioned Bryce and Joan. I mean, I think we
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: more than a shout out goes out to those guys.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know, more than a shout out is Cale
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: get a shout out these two guys, Like I will say,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Bryce Williams was one of and Gus Johnson just confirmed
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: everything that I thought about Bryce and his broadcasting during
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the Crown and of our games and on Bryce Williams.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: He was one of the most enjoyable players for me
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: to watch from Nebraska because every like Bryce was the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: guy right this year especially, and we talked about it
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: going into the year, where like Bryce needs to be
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the guy. Like last year, you know, with Case he
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: got rank like Bryce was kind of also there. You know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: sometimes he was the number one option, Like this year
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: was like, nope, Bryce need to be the guy. He
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: was the guy this year led the big tennants scoring,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: but the way he did it, and I think it
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: was Fred that said it. He's a four way scorer
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and you know, three level scorers. You got, you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the mid range game, you got obviously, three point shooting,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: getting too the rim before one is free throws like Bryce.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Everything he did though, was always so calm, cool, collected
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Bryce Williams like it was never about him. He never
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: seemed flustered. He never really got too excited, like he
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: just was the steady constant on this group. And I mean,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I was so glad he got the opportunity to break
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: that record.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: To like he he was.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: He was.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: He's been one of the most fun like level headed
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: players that I've seen it Nebraska since I can remember.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: He's not you.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Never got frush like he scored a lot of points,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: but you weren't frustrated in the same way when like
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Teddy Allen was getting a lot of points to d.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I never once like you could think, oh my god, Bryce,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: what are you doing? Like why that was so shitty?
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Like Jewan Gary. I'll say it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: There are times were like in the year, especially late,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: where he would go in and throw crap like Jawan
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: quit doing that crap like that's not you Bryce. Bryce
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: just always again, just everything about him so fun to watch.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: So I wanted to talk, you know, say that about him.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And then Juan just a straight dog got m VP
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of the Crown defensively and his hustle, energy, his emotion
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: kind of the opposite of Bryce. Right, every team needs
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the guy like that on there, especially on the defensive end.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: And and Juwan is everything in that and some you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: offensive rebounding, specifically in defensive rebounding. He always is around
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the ball, always knows where it's at, loose balls, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: he's always near it. And then he's he's solid enough
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: to make open shots. Right, Juwan is not the best shooter.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Everybody would agree to that, but gosh, he makes big
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: time shots when you need him. I mean even just
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: to start the game on Saturday or Sunday, he hit
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: the opening shot of the game, Like he just steps
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: up in big moments. You know that the drive, offensive
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: rebound finish in the Boise State game, that he was
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: incredible as well for the Crown and also worthy and deserving.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Of that m VP. Like, those two guys are special, right.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: And they're gonna be very very very very very difficult
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to replace. They've also both and Jawn specifically, but you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: they both gave everything to the program coming back for
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: another year their senior year, Like they easily could have
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: entered the portal, but they wanted to do it here.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I think that says a lot again going back to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the fread thing kind of what they're trying to build.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: So yeah, those two like a plus awesome, very very
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: much so.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Going to miss them.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: You need, well, you need something to replace him because boy,
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: you don't have much behind him right now.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: But but he's already that's something.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all these portal players coming in Hunter things, you
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: got the next stud.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know, so portal guys, it's still gonna be
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: moving parts we're gonna miss. We need to We need
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: to score the guy that can create what Bryce was
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: pretty much is what I'm talking about the season is
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: gonna be around. He can shoot it right, And and
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the big stat that I think everybody was bragging about
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: was that no, none of the Huskers have entered the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: portal wall one. We were still playing, so I was
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: like holding your horses, but a lot of them were reaffirming,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: like Connor's teaching came out that I'm coming back, you know,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: ranked confirmed Key's back. And that's the thing everybody's laughing
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and making fun of. Oh my god, we have to
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: literally post about staying. Yes, it's just the time we
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: live it like everyone's doing it living so but right now,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: like it looks like most everyone staying from this last
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: year's team except for oh god, Gavin Griffiths, which is
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: not surprising. He wasn't even suited up for the last game.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Like Dak's laughing his ass off right now.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, boy, that's a big pickup. I I called that
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: one out right away.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: He's gonna he's done right, No one's gonna pick him.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: He'll play on like a like you Illinois, No, like
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: an Illinois state.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Team or I don't know, he's terrible, He'll you can shoot,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: long story short, he's.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Out the rest, you know, kind of seem like they're
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: still around. A really good follow out there on Twitter
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: that I get a lot of my stuff from Nebraska
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: basketball now is it's called Pavelka's fat uncle. But he
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: just he has he's a big Nebraska basketball junkie and
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: and has done a good job of just updating on
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: the portal and kind of piece our roster together for
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: next year what it could look like pieces coming in
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: going out, so it looks like guys coming back. You know, Bryce, Juwan,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Braxton Mia, I believe Rawley gone, and then you know
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: the other guys, the younger guys are coming back. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: then here's the additions. And I get to help me
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: with the one name.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: But Price comes from Iowa and.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I he's the first one that kind of that committed
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: from the portal and it was likely to happen. He's
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: gonna be a shooter, Yeah, I think he's got some
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: ability to finish kind of like Connor does. Right, Like
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: he's not he's not the like an only shooter type
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: of guy, like all those guys that can score at
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the ram if they need to. But he's gonna be
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: another Connor season type player that can shoot it. He's
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: not the really good one. He's a younger and he's
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: a sophomore from Iowa, but I think he scored average
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: about kind of game this year. He scored over ten
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: both times we played him, Like again, very good pickup.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Is he the level the Bryce Williams.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: No, I don't think he's going to be that in
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: my mind.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: You're gonna read the next one. No, I mean it
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: was early. We're just getting more shooters. We'll see if
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: it pans out. We've gotten a lot of shooters in
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: the past that don't really pan out. Plus he's an
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Iowa player, and our Iowa players haven't panned out, so
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: I'm not super excited. But we do need more more
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: wing like players, so that'll help with that depth. With
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Ran coming back, I think those will become more valuable
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: because he's much more of a point.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Forward type of big.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: He's much better at sharing the ball than him our
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: current bigs are. Arguably, he'll be our best passer.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm trying to think of who's going to
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: leave the team in a system very well could be
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: ranked masked from last time we saw him play.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: At least, you.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Always need shooters, I mean, the only one you have
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: right now you can count I'm not counting the.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: Guys that come back, but his siege didn't really yep,
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: and even a season kind of struggled there during the
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: little hot he he but but when he's hot, he's hot,
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: and all you know his numbers, you compare him the
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: case Is from last year like that, there weren't too
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: far off.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: And I actually at times he was actually outperforming Case
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: from a percentage standpoint, So a little bit.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Of a better defender because he's just bigger.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Than yeah, and and and that was the weird thing.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Is you know why he never got in the starting
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: lineup too was puzzling. I think his defense as his
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: hang up, right, I never saw him too bad. But
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: then there are moments I'm like, oh, okay, that's why
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: maybe he's so Yeah, I mean, I think adding another
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: guy like this is is only gonna help and thatact
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: get right, like Nebraska basketball has struggled so much with
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: getting guys like this in our program, Like it's thinking,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: refine them correct and and so yeah, hopefully he pants
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: out looks like a season I mean is I would
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: say he's for the most part played his part and
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: being a spot up shooter, like when when he when
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: he starts shooting, you can see how teams change their
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: defense to chase him. You have to draw more attention
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: to him. That opens other things up. That's what Case
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: did so well for our program last year. In the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: couple of years before that, like he drew attention, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: that's what a season would do when he was on fire.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Like the team I think goes Georgetown started zone and
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the second season came in, They're like, Nope, we can't
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: run our zone anymore because once the season gets open,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: he's hitting an open shot so huge Sandford, I think
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: that's a good addition, a very good addition. Second one
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: that I don't know a whole lot about besides, I mean,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at his name now. The first couple of
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: times I've seen it, I've just known him as a
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Central Michigan guy because I didn't want to try to
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: say his name Uni Jurorsuvicious from Central Michigan. Average about
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I believe it's around fifteen points a game, eight rebounds
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: a game, All Mac player, first teamer and forward like
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: he he's gonna either gonna be a big key piece.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I think to add to the rank, Mast you know
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: you're gonna be around you.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Like the size, I mean, it makes you feel good.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's competed on at a high level at the
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: you know, at the D one level, Like he's all
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: he's all mac like it's not not nothing.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I'm picturing him being like an Andrew Morgan who's also
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: leaving and graduating, like an extra, like a kind of
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a body like that. Like to me what I've seen,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: he's a and I liked Andrew Morgan the most out
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: of all of our posts, like you said, Dak, and
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: he seems to be that guy that's gonna fill in
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: that role and potentially could be even better I mean
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: as far as scoring the ball than Morgan was.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: It's it's gonna be sweet to see him next play
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: playing next to Rank Like, I mean, those those are
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: just two solid offensive bigs.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I'm excited about it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: You have those two and then you have you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: a season and hopefully Samford pays out, and then you
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: have I don't know, Marcus Lawrence or Cane or or sorry,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Kale Jacobson or you know, Sam Hoiberg coming in for
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: your guard position.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: It'll be nice to have to have some depth depth
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: on the big.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: It seems like the Huskers always just have terrible depth
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: in the bigs and and you could probably we'll see
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: how it works out. But playing them side by side,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: even because Rank can step out into three right the
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: other guy, I have no idea if he can shoot.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: A three or not. I'm guessing not the way he looks,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: but I.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Don't think so from what I've seen. Here's what will
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: be interesting. Like you said, you know with Stay as well,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: like I I'm curious how that rotation will look because
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: you know, Hoiberg's offensive systems have been more of a
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: point forward, which is ranked kind of the definition of
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: what that is. Andrew Morgan was not. Neither was Mia,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: but they played that spot occasionally when they had to.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: We really have not. I mean, Bark was in a
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: lot with kind of those guys. But the more that
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: the season went on, bar Kay became more of the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: big man, right Like it was hard to play Barrikay
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: with Mia or barri Kay with Andrew Morgan. It just
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: it didn't work out well the way our offense was
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: designed and was running. So like, if we were to
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: play them together, our offensive system is going to look different.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: It just will because we.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Don't typically play two bigs together often, so we'll see
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: how that all plays out. It's probably more next year
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: conversation with Jerusa, Vicious.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: And Masked and mut Gel as kind of our big guys,
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: the best names.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, they're all four. Our posts are gonna be
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: all four bar players, I mean Rank and whoever that
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: other guy from back. They all have to There's no
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: way they were born in America, No, none of them.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: I don't think we.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: Can't get him in States, but we'll get him from really,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: because they don't know how bad Nebraska is.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Hey, come here, and I.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: Don't know what you need to have bar kay forget
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: they have the ankle injury, but something you need to
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: just letn forget he ever had that, because God, he
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: was off after he came back from that.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: He even was bad in the tournament.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Hey, I was not. What I was disappointed the most with.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Him is he lost his interior game. Like if he's
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: never a good shooter, and he thought he was, but
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: he kept trying to and it was like, quit shooting
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: the fucking ball. Like, but I think he's better inside.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: He's gooder inside. Early on this season, I remember him
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: making some moves going to his left and.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Like, okay, this is this is good like and then
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: he's kind of a guard and then he just kind of.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah at the bed after that injury.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: You know, player's falling apart when he can't make free
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: throws like he can he can do anything.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Uh last one.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Austin mentioned him earlier, but JaMarcus Lawrence coming back? Uh
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: was that Rhode Island last year?
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Coming home?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: As his Twitter said, here's a thing with JaMarcus Lawrence.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Towards the end of his time at Nebraska, he started
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: to become more of the score and being more aggressive
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: because he was forced into that role kind of like
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, not that Kale was forced in, but kind
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: of to step up. Like I can't remember everything that
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: was going on with that team, but he did a good,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: pretty good job of doing it. And then when he
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: left for like, dang it, like that was that guy.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: That guy had a lot of potential and he was young.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Well was coming back and I believe he played fairly
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: well at Rhode Island again, I double digit score. Like,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a good solid point guard
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: for this group that's gonna still need one of those guys.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I mean against Sam. You know, Kale stays around. Those
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: guys can play point. But I think having more a
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: true tradition traditional point guard, even in this year when
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: some of those like yeah with Raleigh or ulss it out.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: Those scoring swamps going so many, you just need one
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: guy who can just study the ship, like all right,
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna get you an easy bucket.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: We don't need to do anything crazy.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: And this year I thought Fred was actually very good
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: at designing our sets and systems to where the ball
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: was in Bryce's hands or Jawn's on an ISO or
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Morgan low post touch like it wasn't. It wasn't point
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: guard based. And I think when you have more movement
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that only helps your scoring. DeMarcus Lawrence will be more
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: of a scoring point guard than what we had this year,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: because we really had none this year. But I think
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: that's a huge It's the biggest one, in my mind,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: the biggest edition. There's gonna be more pieces guy, that's
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: not I think we're at twelve roster spots right now,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: including some of the freshmen that are coming in and
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Nick Janowski, Braden Frigger and then Quentin Rhymes. We still
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: got some more roster spots. There's gonna be some more
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: moving pieces still, but it's a good start, a good
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: beginning build to this team for next year. And it's
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: going to be writing off a lot of momentum, right
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: like Hoiberg's in year seventh, are going to be year seven.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Like again, we started the pot. I think some people
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: are going to say, you know, this guy, We've got
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: to give him more time. Got to give him more time,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Got to give him more time.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Back to back twenty one seasons.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: You know, at some point, okay, you know what, what's
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: our goals here? What's our objectives? Like I think everybody
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: would agree, getting winning a goddamn tournament game. And this
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: year we didn't do that. I get we didn't make
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: it a tournament. We fell apart at the end. It
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: was so disappointing the way it ended the season, didn't
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: even make the Big Ten tournament like whatever. But again,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: given the opportunity, the boys rallied around him in the
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: program won what they could in the postseason by winning
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: the Crown Championships. That tells you something that gives you momentum,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: It gives you hope for the program.
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: It definitely takes the off season heat off it does
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: you lay a stinker round one like all off season.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: It's like Fred Murmers, like the articles of ten coaches
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: on the hottest seats.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I would have joined it.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: I would have joined it and and been very strong
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: with that statement on what I would have thought that
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: that would have happened. Now you pull me back in like, great,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: we're here. I still think, though, yeah, you have to
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: continue to show growth and progress by winning the Crown.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I think you showed that. I'm not saying next year's
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: inca tournament winner bust year.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: But at least make the tournament.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: It's pretty close to us close to that for at
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: least in the tournament.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And especially we say in football, what Todd Golden like fortigator,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: look at his track record the past ten years and
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: look where he's been. He is a young he's thirty
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: nine years old, or his hat backwards receiving the guy
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: damned trophy like he is a guy again. That I've
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: said for football too, like if things don't work out,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of hiring these big names. I know it's
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: not gonna make you feel happy. These big name coaches
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: that improved themselves to other places, and they have this
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: track record. I want a young guy doesn't give a
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: shit about the money. He's gonna work his ass off,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: and you know what, it might fail in a couple
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: of years, but at least you've got a guy that
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: is so motivated for the right reasons. I'm not saying
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: rule and foyberd Art, but when you take money out
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: of the equation and you're just a young coach trying
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: to build your name, Nebraska basketball is not an end
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: destination for a coach unfortunately. Now maybe it is for
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Fred because it's home, but for most people, it's not
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: gonna be husting football. Maybe that could be. So that's
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: my whole point is again, Bread's you did well at
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Iowa State. Obviously as a coach in the NBA, Like,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: you got seven years here. I mean, we're not We're
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: not gonna keep you here for twelve or thirteen years.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: If you make it to the NSA Urnmer once every
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: five years and lose that game, like that's probably not
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: the expectation and standard that most people are gonna be
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: okay with in the long term. Now, keep making deep
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: money and winning the crown every year. I mean, I
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: guess I don't know. People might think that's.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: A good thing.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: But that's where I'm out with threads and I think, again, props,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: great job, Like winning the crown is a really big thing.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: I would say most I would say most Nebraska basketball fans.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: The expectation, the desired expectation isn't necessarily your like a
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: you know, tournament or bus team where it's like, we
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: don't make the tournament, this season was bad.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: I think it's more of like a.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Every other year we make the tournament and then there's
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: gonna be a couple of three year stretches where we
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: make it and then one year make a deep run
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: and then eventually we hopefully it all.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: But I think that's kind of the expectation.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: And so Fred, you made the tournament last year, won
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: the crown this year, so you know, you kind of
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: got to make the turn with the next year to
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: get to that level of expectation of like, all right,
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: we're flirting with the dance every year and then one
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: of these years we'll do you know, we'll go on
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: a deep run, we'll you know, make the Sweet sixteen.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: And maybe they llie day.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I would say that same expectation and maybe not expectation,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: but thought process goes with every kind of there's I
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: think there's a lot in Nebraska's probably on the bottom
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: edge of this grouping of basketball team like Oklahoma I
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: think is probably around you know, in that grouping of
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: like are they making it every year? Probably not, but
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: they you know, they want to make it once every
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: every three years, and you know, one of those years
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: maybe have a chance to make a Sweet Sixteen run.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: We're obviously not a blue blood, but there's several schools
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and it's break forty of them that are in that
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: little grouping that that's kind of what you want. And
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: unfortunately we're probably at the bottom of that because we've
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: made the tournament, you know, only once or twice in
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: the past twelve thirteen years.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: But let's say this is the happiest and the brass
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: basketball fans have been in April since nineteen ever eight
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: or whatever.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: When we won the n it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell ya, I think I said it to you.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: I said it video.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Most wins in April, most went in April.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Maybe I don't know there.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: I didn't send it to you. I saw the tattoo.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: That was the last thing I saw. It was your crown.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: Your crown tattoo.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I can't find the tweet, damn it. Well, anyways, it
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: was most wins in the past. There, it is most
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: college bathball wins in April since two thousand and two. Ready,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Yukon ten, North Carolina eight, Kansas five, Baylor four, Duke four,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Florida four, vill Nova three, and Nebraska three.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: Goddamn right, what are.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: You talking about? Not a blue blood.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: You're talking about? Yeah, good year for Nebraska basketball. Spirits
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: are high, man, and we feel good about next year already.
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: Now, let's rewind after the Iowa game. If you have
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: been saying this, we'll look at put the odds on April.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: What is eighth saying good year for Nebraska basketball to
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: that game?
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Loo?
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah right, yeah, I had just the way things have gone,
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: I'm like, this team's folding, like they're done, and we didn't,
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: you know, even before the Iowa game.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh gosh, like this is happened twice this year.
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: We thought we were folding and done.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Guys. We at one point, I believe, were like a
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: ninety eight percent chance to make the tournament on some sites.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then we were lost six in a row.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's that's just remind people not to give people,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: you know, trauma from when it happened.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: But like that, that's what happened this year.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: So for them to respond the way they did and
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: win this again, was it a good tournament with good teams?
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Again?
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: What are we're gonna call good? No, there's they weren't
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: great teams. But that's the opportunity given. And we won it.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: We competed, went out and won.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: So and you know was there, you know who was
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: there watching that win?
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: And here we go.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: You brought it out flex.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: And not wearing red, but he did have a Husker
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: shirt on.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: I was like ninety five percent sure he was gonna
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: be in the championship photo.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: He was not Boston. Here we go.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's hear what what's the weight watch? Dylan
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: watchers here?
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Oh so I had the picture here in front of
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: me of him, you know, sitting on the throne with
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: the crown on his head. Guys, I'm gonna say it,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: I'm I We'll see what happens this year. He needs
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: to stay away some all the Husker fans love it,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: we eat it up. Stay away from the freaking spotlight.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: I I I get your promoting the university and people
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: like think that's such a positive thing. I just get
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: so scared he's making it about himself and it's gonna
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: come off to players and in the program it's all
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: about me. Like think about if your other Husker players
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: like you're it's it's the Dylan Dylan Roola Show. Now
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: if your playbacks it up, Hey, Bravo, then it makes
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: it a lot more fun and enjoyable. But it's not
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: like Dylan Roola was a great It's not like he
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: was an All Star last year. I guess he's he's
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: make his Ever since he said he's coming back, it
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: has been all about Dylan every event high school is
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: a freaking professional. He's been every guy's everywhere, like Supernova
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: game to Omaha Scott high school games too.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: He went to so many high school basketball games.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: He's everywhere. And again I get that could be support,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: but I I like, I get it's scared as becoming
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: too much about him and it's not putting the team first,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: and that this is this is my not a red flag,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: but a little orange flag coming out where I'm just
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing it and it's coming like if it should
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: go south, this is going to be a big part
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: of it. And I get you want to promote and
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: support the school. I get that, but there's a probably
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: a time and place to do it when you can
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: do it. We have not earned the right to do
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: that yet, like he has not. I don't think he has,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: like he wants to.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: He's got a big name in a big nil package
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: like Bravo.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know, man, if I'm in college, I'm making
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: six million.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know how which is.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: I get that I'm flying to Vegas to watch my
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: college basketball team.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: I guess I.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Don't think I'm flying to Vegas to watch basketball. You
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: know what?
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: What I would have liked to see is him to
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: grab the the eight offensive linemen that are going to
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: be with him next year and go do it with him,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Like I know he's brought like Emmitt Johnson with him
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: a few games.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: That's the yes I have to say.
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: Like he seems to be at all these things by himself,
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: or he's.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Sitting in the VIP section, like wearing purple to this
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: stupid Minnesota game.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: Like that pissed me off, Like do it?
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Do it with your teammates in a group, because once
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: you start making it about yourself, the second things go
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: wrong and there's gonna be a ton of adversity in
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: the fall, Like guys are not gonna have your back
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: as much as they would if you're a team orion
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: a guy. First, I'm not saying he's not because we
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: don't know that. I'm not we're not in the locker room,
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: but that just the perception that gives off and you
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: can't tell me some of the players aren't looking at
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: that and going, well, this is Dylan Royola's team, and
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: again that could be okay. Like I like that he
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: led him out of the locker room to start. I
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: didn't mind that because he was very I don't say calm,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: but very good with the media and his words and
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: the team when he talks to the media. His freshman year,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I thought he did a very good job of that.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: But if you start taking it to a next level,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and he had some humility too in the game that
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: he played at Like that's where you start getting the
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Scott Frost like it's my way or the highway, I'm arrogant,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: like start blaming other people like that. That's where Scott
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: started going down that path. And he was the golden
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: child of the Nebraska football Scott Frost was, and he's
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: gonna bring everything back, like now Dylan Royola is that guy.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Like Dylan Royola is supposed to be the guy to
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: bring the brask football back.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: It's his job.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: And if you start eating that up and soaking it in,
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: it's gonna start having negative and and we do it.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: It's our media. It's us that put all of it
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: at the crap out there and publicize it and then
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: it gets blown out of proportion and probably more than
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: it needs to be. But that's the reality of what
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: happens with Nebraska media and why I don't think the
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: fans and the media are the problem. I've done, I'm done,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: and you stop.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Counter argument would be, yes, he's in college, Yes he
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: makes a shit ton of money, but he gets there's
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: a lot of pressure that comes with the He might
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: as well reap the benefits while you're also at it,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: But that's that's it's not selfish, but that's putting yourself
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: above you your teammates.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: He's not putting, he's not, But in what way is
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: him going to a high school basketball game? How is
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: he putting himself in front of his teammates. In what
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: way is he degrading? He's like, if I'm more important
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: than my team, He's like, no, I'm gonna go watch
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: a high school basketball game, and everyone cares that I'm
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: at the basketball game.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: He really likes to find the camera.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: He does like the camera. All right, I know you're
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: tired about him being there.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: I'm kind of leaning the hunter side. I think he's
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: I think he's there to be in the spotlight.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: And a what Austin saying is that's okay. He's like,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: why why, why, why why can't he do that? I'm
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: just saying it from he can't, he can't and and
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: and I just think from a perception standpoint, he just
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: continues it is and it's not wrong. The messages is
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Dylan's team or bust and and like that could be
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: the case. Now, the comments coming out of spring practice,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: the very few that I've heard and seen, like it
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: sounds like Jalen Grahamstead and him are doing a good
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: job pushing each other like that sounds like it's a
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: very good which we hear that every year, I know,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: like very good competition between the two. So anyway, there's
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of Dylan Roola talk. I think there's probably
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: a whole other episode that we need to get to
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: about spring practice and talking about the updates in the
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: football season before we officially kind of put a cap
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: on the what season season six of the podcast?
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Season six, Season six?
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Wow, Like, I think I think there's yeah discussion there
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: as we get closer to the spring. What are they
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: calling a spring day?
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Fun day?
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: But the fun day the then see you guys, I'm
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: sure I will be We could.
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I don't see why not six.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: I thought about going out. I don't really want to
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: go to the games, but.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: No, Lincoln will be like at the spring game. That's
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: and that's the that's that's why they're doing it this way.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: They want to make it still a vent even without
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: the game, which I think is completely smart on rules part.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: Like I like that decision, but that's the.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: City of Lincoln and the Husker program in general still
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: wants to reap the benefits of what the spring game is,
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: and I think they're doing it right. I think they'll
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: still be a good decent turnout in downtown Lincoln. Volleyball
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: is playing an exhibition game that night at the Divannay
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Center as well, so that you have that going for you,
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be p I'm guessing some sort.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: Of skills thing.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: So I mean it's going to be a day that
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: people have circle in their calendars that are going to
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: pay attention to it, whatever that is. And I mean
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I'm already saying I'll probably be out and about.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah it'll be good.
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, it'll be different, not quite as fun
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: as the Spring Game, but it'll still be good.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be a fun day.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: That's all that's gonna say.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Will remember.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: At the deep sigh.
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: I do love the Spring game day.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Is it's it's always the one day of the year
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: that we gotta get to think we have a game day.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's the last time. It's a lot August So.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, last topic, last thing here. Masters week, it's one
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: of them. This is one of my favorite. I think
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: I probably say this every year. Stretches of the year
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: where you where you have madness, you know, the Final
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: Four and then the Masters and then you jump right
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: into the first round in NBA playoffs here coming up?
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: What do you what?
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: Who do you?
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Scotty and Rory are the two like.
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: It's tough to pick against Scotty favorites. Rory's gonna joke
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: it away like he always does. No way in heck
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: does Ry. He's not gonna win it. I don't know
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: why anyone.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Rory needs it for his you know, Grand Slam Majors.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Scotty has not won yet this year. I don't think
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: it won in a while. And then the down part
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: with him is that he I think he gained like
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: seven strokes putting the other other day and still did
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: not win the tournament, which for Scotty that's unheard of
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: because he's typically a good game.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: Who if you had to pick.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: One winner regardless of the odds, like who you picking.
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: Scotty?
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: I mean because he's I think he's the best golfer
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: right now. I know he's having a little bit of
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: a downstretch, but I do think he's the best golfer.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Jordan speed.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: Ooh a little master's boy.
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: Why he loves the course he's been playing. I know
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: you had a bad beat last week or like pretty bad,
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: but he's been playing better. I think he loves the course.
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: Who like he always plays well here?
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: I guess I definitely it's interesting. Out of anybody who
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: could pick, you pick Jordan Speed.
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to someone that I think is not getting
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: talked about a lot, but we don't really know what
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: they're doing because I don't think many people pay attention
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: to live is what.
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: It has been.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: John Ram who I'm taking to win, and he's you know,
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: he's not the favorite by any means, but he's up there.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: I just think when gets going out, Ron's one of
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: those guys that I always think, here's how rom plays.
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: He's either.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Right around the mix the entire weekend or and then
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: then he has a chance to win, or what he does.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: He plays crappy one of the first two days and
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: then he like plays really well Saturday or Sunday, and
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he ends up like thirteenth. He's
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: gonna have to play well all four days to win,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: and obviously anybody does if you're at the Masters. But
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: I think this could be a week. You know, I
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: don't think there's about pressure on him right now. You
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: know the pressures with Rory for sure. You know Scotty's
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: could go back to back, I don't think, and win
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: three of the last four like that hasn't been done.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: I can't remember the stat I heard in a long time.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: If ever, I'm going back to back hasn't been done
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: in a long time. You know, Scotty's got that pressure
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: on him.
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: So I don't know.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: I love Masters a week. It's it'll be fun Thursday.
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: So said is you're having a month. I feel like.
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: But our bowling team, they made the final four. I
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: don't know how to shook out.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Of course, I have no idea, Miss I know the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: baseball team. I really don't want I don't want to
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: talk about them. Besides, they're like series win against Oregon
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: State that was awesome, and then you lose and become
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: the worst team in the state to create an in
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: you and O.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: No one's really creating a U n L game next week.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: So and then what I think we just won two
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: or three year I can't Maybe I remember one yesterday
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: or not against Ruggers, but it's not It's not been
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: the best year for the baseball team by any means.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: I think that their chances of, you know, even after
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: the Oregon State maybe squeaking into an at large tournament
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: type birth was up for grab. But now after I mean,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: you can't lose the way we've lost some of these
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: games and series. So I think only way in is
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: winning the Big Ten tournament, which I'm not going to
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: say is out of the question because the Big Tens not.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: Basically baseball.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: So get hot at the right time, you can get
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: you know, get that automatic bid.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 5: Softball team is playing well.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: You know, Jordy Jordie's performing as expected, which is very well.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: And you know they're right around the top twenty five,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: even sneaking in there for a while. And I don't
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: know if we're still in the top twenty five. So
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: that got a lot better than the baseball team.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: I looked at there are some softball jerseys on sale
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: and I was like, I don't know, maybe I get
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: a softball jersey. She got me something else. I just
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: had a list I should have I should have wrote
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: him down.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: Outside of that, you know, obviously, NBA Western Conference is crazy?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: Is that close? Podcasting again, Life's good?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: Something's geez something? Should just beat the Knicks.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Coopair, I hope.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Is awkward thing? Get to stay healthy this whole year?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: Who knows, but he was sick for half of it.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: Wasn't he.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he looked like you got like a black
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: eye or something. I don't know. He'll break his leg
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: eventually here, but hey, he's healthy right now.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, we will way back sometime. Not going
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: to guarantee you next week.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 7: But we've been a old spotty, you know, busy. We'll
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 7: try to get a couple more episodes in here.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: I'll try and throw a medical issue.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, at least he hit his DEDUCTI ball already, Yeah.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: You might as well get your golfer out.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: It's not I can do whatever I want now.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Don't give him any ideas, all right, Crown Champs twenty
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: twenty five, go big Red GVR.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: He'll be grid
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: T