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Episode 5.46: SPECIAL INTRO -- Inconsistency Once Again · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Oh say, can you see by the dodger lead like, what's so proudly?
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We hail at the flight's last week, food brush drives in fragstars through
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the barrel less fight or the ram park we watched warsail, gallons, lee
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streaming, and the rockets red glare, the bumpering in gay brew through the
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guy that our flag was still there? Oh say, does that star bangle
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banner yet? Way the land and out the free and the home of the
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bread musters. There we go a little low, little pitch of some spots
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there. Hey, I'll tell you what the end of that Well, it's
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still playing. I wanted you to get up there. You have to get
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up there on that high note. Nope, I'll tell you what the end
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of that song. Fuck you Clemson band, you fucked that up. At
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the end of that they mess it up so bad, tell them Dak.
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Just just a lot to unpack here with Dak singing the national anthem for his
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punishment and having to write down the lyrics. First off, had to write
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him down to make sure he did not mess him up. A lot of
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pressure on the last time I sang I messed him up. Well, you
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got it done with dak You got your punishment done with punishment you put on
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yourself. Really seeing you guys in the background was not easy because I was
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trying so hard to keep it. So it's great and for the people listening,
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you guys will have the audio in the background. Austin and I didn't,
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so we heard it acapella. Like the whole time, we get no
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idea of what was going on. We just heard the acapella version. That
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guy needed that. I needed that laugh. I needed that tonight. I
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I almost forgot about the sorrow that we just witnessed. Almost almost but not
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quite. It's a shame about you missed last week. Hunter was sick.
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Yeah, I was on my deathbed. Yeah, that one would have been
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a little more fun. But we're what about half hour after Nebraska loses to
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Rutgers, guess what on the road in overtime after losing to Iowa on the
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road getting Dick stomped by Iowa. But Austin opening thoughts well on our way
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to another five hundred season. Gosh, it just you really pissed the momentum
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you had after Purdue like Iowa. Losing Iowa really hurt. But when you
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followed up with another loss. Two losses have to be the number one team,
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Like you hope to build off of that, build a resume, But
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gosh, we just played like shit that whole light. Both these teams are
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gonna do elementary school drills to start the next practice. Nebraskan do rebounding and
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Rutgers can do free throws. Yeah, Dak for outsider, what do you
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think of the game? Do you watch most of it? Yeah? I
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watched it all. I don't if Nebraska could just rebound the ball or would
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they go ten minutes out scoring without making a field goal. Yeah, it's
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like forge end of the game, which that sounds familiar. What they twenty
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six offensive rebounds? That's insane and I mean late it was coming off of
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free throws too. Yeah. Yeah. Before we're on here, a bit
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about Josiah Alec and how I like, I really thought he's the one who
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lost it. Rank Masden no one, Rank Masden played well, but justa
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Alec was just killing us down this stretch. Couldn't get the rebounds, dumb
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fouls. Oh, he's pissing me off. Unfortunately for me it and it
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sucks because I think our football team, we've had our expectations got checked over
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and over. The basketball team really haven't had many, and so any chance
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that we think we want to get our hopes up potentially being a tournament team
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and seeing ourselves and Lunardi and Jerry Palm of CBS and bractology, it's like,
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you want to think this team's got what it takes. And you hear
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you hear John Rothstein, a national insider, and you hear some of the
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guys that know a lot about college basketball talking about this Nebraska team. But
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is it much different? I mean, after a game like this, it
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just you go back to it and you go, there's nothing different than this
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team in the past year's teams. We've had this open thought in previous years.
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Now the difference is our records a little bit better, but yeah,
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we had an easier non con so that would make sense. It's just the
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same old team, the same inconsistency that we see out of Fred Hoiberg's team's
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year after year. And I guess what's your guys's hunch as to why,
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like why does this happened to Fred's teams? I mean, especially here Nebraska,
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when we've been paying more closer attention to him I mean, obviously part
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of it is just turnover, like we just always have. We're always putting
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together new pieces of players from like whull roster wise, and you hope this
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year wasn't that way. I think that's a fair point. I think it's
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very very fair. And so Robins just goes so stagnant at the end,
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like when you get a lead, you just go stagnant. You don't do
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what you did to get that lead. Do you guys know what Tim Miles
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record was when he got fired. Pretty good. It wasn't great, but
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it's better than Fred Hoiberg's ever been. Oh yeah, We've talked about Fred's
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record on this podcast several times, like it it's for being the whatever he
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is, top twenty paid coach in the country. I mean, it's horrific.
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I really thought, I I don't want to sell out already on the
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team, because that's not you know. I do think we have a good
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chance, not good chance, we have a chance to make the tournament.
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But gosh, if Red stumbles down, if he ends five hundred, do
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you have to fire him or what? I mean that that would be the
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obviously ending five hundred overall record at this point would mean going like twenty five
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percent or lower the Big Ten. I mean, I agree with you on
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that, because how many total games is there in the season thirty two,
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thirty thirty summer between thirty thirty two kind of depends on how many tournaments you
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play. Early on, yeah, you know you mentioned the NCAA tournament.
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Cocker thought, like, right now it is you could basically x out and
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maybe even take a step below after that win. It gets Purdue losing to
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Iowa. Now Rutgers, who at the time right now is the worst team
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in the Big Ten. We obviously had the loss to Minnesota on the road
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too. And the part that I'm struck going to struggle with now is Juan
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Gary not knowing officially but potentially being out the rest of the year with the
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non contact leg injury. You kind of had an injury bugs too well.
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And yes and no like that that does happen in every year. It seems
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like there's one or two. But that speaks to a team that needs depth,
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like injuries happened to everybody. Gary losing him, while I don't think
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he's like as important as rank mast I think is you saw what happened to
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our rebounding when he went down and out like it that that end. I
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mean it was bad. Now, give credit to Rutgers and Omaruris. I
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mean, he's one of the better tougher big ten posts from a physicality standpoint,
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but I mean it was horrible, and it a guy like that,
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your chances of making the tournament go way down, especially this early on,
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still in conference play. I just don't know. I don't get it,
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and I really don't. We look great against Purdue and maybe Perdue's a little
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bit overrated, but they're not. I mean, sure, maybe they're not
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a number one team in the country, but they're still a top ten team
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in the country. You'd assume, and we handled a seven foot four guy,
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why can't we handle do? We just need a game plan around always
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doubling up post and playing on getting beat on the outside, and that's how
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we're gonna win games, regardless of how good their post players are. I
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don't know well, and I think you see teams the way we're defending this
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year, which I think has its moments. It's very fource baseline double posts
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from the from the low side, I bring the help side defender and then
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rotate out of the out of the trap. We're doing a lot of that
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now. I think some teams are finding efficient ways to beat it. Tonight
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Ruggers did a good job. I thought of bringing that backside other forward down
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and basically ceiling off our help the helper defender even for rebounding purposes. Right,
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So like teams are figuring that part out, I think a little bit.
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And because the defensive based so much on schematics versus opposing teams personnel and
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scout, like, if you find a way to beat it, it's not
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gonna be great. I don't know. Again, the difference between the home
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and the road like that to me is like you mentioned Purdue, and I
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agree with you, like that Purdues still probably the best team in the Big
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Ten conference, and we beat them at home, but we cannot go on
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the road and play well. Look, look, and I guess Dak for
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what you know on sports, like why I and playing basketball the Big Ten
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on the road is it is what it is. If there's obviously a lot
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of tough road environments in any sport. But what what's the difference. Well,
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then I think it helps here, Like like that guy tonight that got
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the goggles. He's what do you say? He was one for nineteen come
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in the game. It just gives guys more confidence like that they can just
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make shots of the crowd behind and everything. That guy hit two threes.
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He look, I swear a guy could be in one on one one of
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the worst players I've ever saw in my life hit two threes. There's no
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shot in healthy plays if he goes nebrask he hits rim. I don't know,
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ye is there like an actual like three point like I could see like
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just like there's a legit difference between at home and on there at three point
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percentage in the second half of our game and we were like forty. There's
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like forty three or forty four percent at home and we're like thirty one or
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thirty two percent on the road. That's a big difference because we shoot a
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lot of threes. We do. We're the highest three point shooting team in
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the conference. And I think that speaks to Hoiberg style a little bit.
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But they're they're they're coming overall better this year, like better quality shots,
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and I think that speaks to again the system that we're running a lot on
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offense. I think has its moments that it's good. But the problem is
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it's not consistent either. End is consistent to win a game on the road
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in the Big Ten. And to me, schematics are great. They're great,
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especially in basketball and football any sport. You can X and O and
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draw things up except for maybe with three seconds left, we'll talk about that.
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You can you can do all of that. Great, But if your
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team is not mentally tough and have the right frame of mind going into any
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game, but especially on the road, when all the cards are against you,
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you are not not gonna win a lot of those games. And you
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see that with our our football team to our basketball team, they fold.
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They don't know how to respond to adversity. The only guy that I think
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has a little bit and that because I don't think he knows any better his
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case, like he's so scatterbrain that like I think Sam's pretty much Sam Sam.
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Sam's a player. But a lot of these other guys, it's just
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as a team, we just do not know how to respond and end to
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run no, like, yeah, the crowd's gonna be going nuts, but
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get the stop where you need to get a stop right, execute an offensive
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set when you need to on the road to get a win. And I
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kept texting people before the game. You don't need to win impressively on the
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road right now, like not not where we're at. There's no reason you
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win. And it looked like it was gonna be ugly. Maybe we'll find
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a way to squeak it out, but nope, late in the game,
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can't get a rebound, couldn't get a stop when on our scoring drought,
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and then you find ourselves in the loser again. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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so I don't know. I guess I don't know where I'm going with
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Husker basketball. Now. You don't want to write them off completely, But
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at the same time, it's like, why why should if we at this
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point, I mean, outside of us going on a nice run, say
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we win. So what we have? We are thirteen and five, is
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that right? Yep? Yeah? Thirteen and five, So we say eighteen
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games left? Yeah, so we got fifteen games if we finish out nine
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and six, I mean, I guess when win the home games. We've
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proven that we can be anybody in the conference at home, So win those,
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and then we gotta find a way to win a road game or two
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or three. This would have been one that you would I would have had
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a higher chance of winning than some of the others, but we we don't,
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so I guess, I mean, if you want to look at it
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from that stance. But the team's mental psyche after games, I mean big
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games that we win and games that we lose. And I don't know the
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answer what this is. They have to be in the right frame of mind
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going into the next game. And I sent you guys as this tweet or
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photo after the Purdue win. And I'm not blaming Bryce Williams and calling him
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a front runner. I guess are a bad person because he said this,
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But after we beat Purdue, he said, we're not worried about blah bla
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blah, worried about winning the national or trying to prepare to win a national
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championship. Like come on, like that if we are thinking that we are,
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They're like, we know, we go beat Iowa on the road and
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Rutgers on the road and then maybe winning a tournament game, But that just
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tells where our mind is. That after beating Purdue, we're like, oh,
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we're really freaking good, and so maybe we don't practice it quite as
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hard, or maybe we don't think we have to box out quite as hard.
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No, you have to do all those things in the game of basketball
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to win, especially in the Big Ten, where night after night you're gonna
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get a team's best shot. Well, and then we beat Purdue, so
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then people are going to take us little more seriously, Like opposing teams are
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going to prepare a little harder, gonna be like, yeah, fuck these
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guys. They think they're hot shit because they beat Purdue. Watch just stomp
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them out instead of looking at that and going, oh crap, what was
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us? And now they're gonna give us our best shot. No, take
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it as the opportunity of all. Right, now we got to step our
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game up the next level because other teams are going to play it's tougher.
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And I just don't know that Fred's teams, including I feel like Fred's mindset
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is maybe a little bit better. I listened to him after the Purdue game.
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I thought his interview specifically was very down to earth and very real of
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where the team's out of getting you know, getting back and preparing two days
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for Iowa. But I don't know what the team was like that and I
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I whatever celebrate from the court have fun, but you have to know how
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to respond to that. And if you don't, I'm not saying don't storm
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the court, but have fun with it, but don't don't go overboard.
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Don't That's that? That was not our That was not our NCAA tournament game.
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Was that a great win? One of the best that we've had?
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Great, it's awesome, But is that is are we are we after beating
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Purdue? Is that what we want? We want one of those wins?
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Or do we want to win a tournament game? What's our goal here?
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So yeah, celebrate it, have fun, but your mind can get away
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from what we're trying to accomplish. And I just feel like these guys put
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themselves on a pedestal and said, yeah, we're pretty fucking good, and
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therefore we come out and now play two shitty games, I mean horrible,
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horrible games. And beating Purdue is great. We had a great win against
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k State. What do we do after K State? We came out and
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looked like shit? You play well against Oregon State? What do you do?
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You come late and gets crepy. It's the same pattern this year,
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but previous years to have a great win, play like shit. Some I
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just don't know that Hoiberg and the staff know how to consistently get the guys
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in the frame of mind who say no, like this is what we need
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to do, we need to win this game. Like again, whatever that
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frame of mind is, that's part of coaching and understanding your team and your
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players and where they need to be. But you're riot those guys tonight,
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just guys Rutgers bad. They're not good like they are bad. Mm hmm.
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That'd be a loss. Come back to bite you on your resume at
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the end of the year. Thanks Stack, Yes, it will be Yes,
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Okay, I was gonna get I was gonna get back to Bryce Williams
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though. Why I've noticed this a couple of games. He starts out so
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hot beginning of the game and then just disappears. Yeah, he's done that
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a couple of times. I don't know where he goes. But he found
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out hot this game and then I don't know if they scour again. He
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felled out at some point. Now him, he was in the all the
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way to the end. I thought he felled out. Now Masked and Alex
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both filed out and will cut left. So here's a deal with this team.
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If you were to rank all these guys in the scale of one to
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ten, just they're not specifics, but just overall, a ten out of
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tens the best ten players in college basketball, and a one out of ten
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is the worst. Right, Like a lot of these guys about all of
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our top We got a lot of guys beween, four and six. I
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was gonna say, we have a lot of fours. We have a lot
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of five, six and sevens, right, A lot of guys like even
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Tomanaka, I give him a seven like quality a shooter, he's a ten,
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right, But but when it comes torom the other parts of the game
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that diminishes him, he's probably an overall he to seven. Right, William
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shows that he could be a seven or an eight at times, and there's
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times that he shows he's not masked. He's a solid seven, six or
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seven like Wilcher. He's a shooter, he's probably five or six, like
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all these guys are right there. And then when it comes to these games,
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right, you're relying on a system to win you games. But as
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we all know watching the game of basketball, NBA, college, any level,
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you need a freaking stud, a go to person that says, we
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are going I'm going to win you the game. It doesn't mean you're gonna
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go score every time, but the ball is gonna be in this person's hands
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and they are going to either create a shot for themselves or create something on
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offense for somebody else to score. And right now, like at the end
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of that game, I'm like, I don't really know, like who's gonna
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like it ended up being Bryce Williams. I think a couple of times,
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well what does he do? It dribbles office fucking foot and then mass tries
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to save it as it goes whatever like it it. I don't know,
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Like that's blessing. And then the negative with this team is that, yeah,
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we're solid, like we're your team felt better than this year's team.
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It really did it from a from a guy get a bucket, yeah,
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But the counter to that, though, is then you get those guys trying
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to quote unquote get theirs, and it disrupts the flow and the scheme.
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The you know the fine line between that, because we've obviously seen the Alonso
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brges and its Alonso verge, so it's a fine line between the two.
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This team just does not again from a consistency standpoint, know how to be
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tough enough to win on the road. Now we may come out Saturday against
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Northwestern at home and play really well and win. Like I wouldn't be shocked
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by it at all. It's just again that what this team does and and
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I does that help your resume? Yes, but right now potentially not having
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Juan Gary that hurts a lot more than people think. And it's not gonna
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bode well like some of the metrics. Metrics do not like Nebraska right now,
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like at all, even with the Purdue win, like, they don't
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like Nebraska. The eye test is what's getting us in people's projections, it's
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not the metrics, and losses like this are only gonna kill them. Yep,
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I agree. Worst part is the women's women aren't doing much better either.
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They're like the exact same. Yeah, there's there's one more guy.
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I remember, JaMarcus Lawrence was not awful last year. What they'll happen to
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him? He can't buy a bucket that that's that's a very good thought because
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he is one guy that came on the end of late last year. Like
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you said, last game against Iowa, they actually I think it looked like
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it was a designed setter too ran for him to get him shots because they
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want to get him going. And I do think for this team to get
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to that next step offensively he does. He needs to get six or eight
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points for us. He just does not everything looks fine, Like a shot
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looks fine. He's getting clean looks. They're they're just not falling. And
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I don't know if that's a mental thing or what, but I agree with
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you he's someone that we need a little bit of production on at the point
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guard position. I will say, you know, we talked about Fred and
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how he brings some transfers. I don't know if honestly now, I don't
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follow a lot of college basketball teams outside of Nebraska, so I don't know
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if it's a thing across to all college basketball teams. But is Fred good
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at developing basketball players? I have no idea. I haven't there's I would
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say probably not, Like like from an average looking back people that he's had
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for several years. I don't know if I've ever felt like, man,
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I can see this guy making leaps outside of I will say our free throw
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shooting this year way better than last year. Yeah, that's that's improved a
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lot. When they walk the line, you at least have confident they're gonna
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You're confident they're making them both. Last year you're like, there's no shot
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in hell we're maybe gonna get one of these. Yeah. And I think
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that speaks to Fred's style of recruiting, the transfer portal, how he was
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kind of ahead of that. Now a lot more teams are doing it.
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There's a lot more common. I think that is part of I mean,
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if you know you're gonna have and bring in these transfer portal type recruits every
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year, your mind isn't as focused on a guy like JaMarcus Lawrence last year
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now he's a freshman, did a lot of good things for you. Now
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he's a sophomore. But I mean trending for a guy like that, what
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what where do you where? Where? What do you think you have to
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give a chance of JaMarcus Lawrence staying in Nebraska four years? What is it
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right now? It's it's it's like ten percent. It just not. I
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mean that's with or without Hoybrook staying here. He's a typical guy. It's
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to me, he's like, all right, after two years, you know
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we're not winning I'll go try somewhere else. But that's also today's environment too,
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so you have to balance that. But I'm with you, like,
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I what what are we doing to develop or is it surely all just scheme
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guys who are developed from smaller schools, mass mass guys. It's still the
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freaking blue to this whole team. And when you're when you're glue is in
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eight different places like he was tonight, it's not gonna look good. And
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why did he block out once? Yeah, I don't know if he was
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sick or tie it. He did not look as physical as he did obviously
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against Edie. But I mean Omaruri just kicked his ass, I mean,
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bottom line, and that other guy posted too, like they just kicked his
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ass, plain and simple on both ends and offensively, you know, he
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could not get anything going at the rim and and I mean had a couple
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of open looks late didn't hit him either. So he's the guy that you
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know needs to keep us together. It's him and and I think obviously getting
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a little more production from Lawrence is gonna need to happen. Casey is gonna
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be case Wilter is gonna be Wheelcher. But with Gary out Mast has to
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be the one to hold us together because Josiah Alec is the opposite of that.
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He's like a loose cannon. He just with development. There is a
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guy that's gotten better from last year. That's Whelchair, that's true, but
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he kind of dipped last year. Have you like last year he regressed.
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Filter is like, I mean, case streaky too. Wilcher is like either
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he's on or he's not. Like he's been that way as he's put a
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lot more on this year though, yep, and I agree with that,
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but he he just goes on spurts and like right now he's shooting the crap
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out of it. He basically wasn't playing by the end of last year,
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right because he's playing so bad that he correct correct And I got to mention
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Sam guys hating the Game's a couple of huge shots and overtime like that.
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The kid's a freaking warrior. He called me. Scott Frost called people warriors.
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He just he taller man. He'd be an NBA prospect. I still
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hate it when he drives to the rim. I just hate it. It
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just it makes me cringe. But god, he makes plays on the defensive
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end. He just battles his ass off, very fun to watch, so
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have to give him a shout out to. I mean, he's he's doing
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everything he can to keep his dad's job here at Nebraska. He's he's trying,
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honestly, You're not wrong, that's one hundred percent part of it.
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He's got a little extra motivation. And the rest of the guys, I
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wasn't I was not there last year. Did you guys want Voliburg gone after
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last year by the end of last year? No? Going into last year?
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Yes, yeah, he saved his job at the end, but I
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mean he went, like I don't remember what it was, six and three
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down the stretch, being a couple of ranked teams. So if they didn't
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layn egg during the Big Ten tournament, I mean, we felt good at
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the end of last year, and maybe that'll happen this year. Fingers crossed.
28:25
Let's move on. I'm tired, tired talking about this freaking past.
28:27
But we can go positive here and go Husker football here. So it's been
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a couple of weeks we have been on since obviously getting Dylan Roola so that
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was big, the big Simmy, the big news in the off season,
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but it's being followed up by some guys. Now I'm caveating all of this
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recruiting stuff by saying all recruiting is if someone's opinion on how good they think
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someone is with every week is a freaking game changer. Man. Every single
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player is made out to be the most talented recruit we ever get. So
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you want to look at on a comparison thing from a from a national level
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or not that much higher than we are previously, Like we're a little higher,
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we are, but it's not a whole lot. We have done quote
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unquote an impressive job in the portal. Name off these six guys here that
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we've gotten that we're kind of all our six targets quote unquote, and we've
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gotten a so bly Hill cornerback, the linebacker sponsor to Thompson, offensive lineman
29:44
mic Up mazook oh Muscula Mazuoka there, running back Dante Dowdell from Oregon,
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and then two receiver gets Jamal Banks from Wake Forest and Isaiah Nayer from Texas
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and Wyoming the past couple of years. So those are guys that should help
30:03
us, right, they should hopefully play a part. And all I've seen
30:07
is depth charts, like of these guys where they're gonna fit on Like Jesus
30:11
Christ, people like we don't know, these guys haven't been on campus yet,
30:15
like feel the fuck out. Yeah, but you could tell that offense
30:21
was like we need better players on offense. Just QB one on those depth
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Chartsla always Roola, Yeah, nope, Harbburg there or perty transfer immediately have
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his coach get hired somewhere else. Guys, it's it's gonna be Royola.
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And and you're right, like at the end of at the end of this
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last year, how how it ended it? As we know, and I'm
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stealing this from another podcast they listen to, But I liked it. If
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real had to make a checklist, if you're the things that I want to
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do, I gotta keep my defensive coordinator Tony White, Okay, check that
31:03
was number one thing. Got it done? Okay, Then you gotta go
31:07
say, okay, let's look at what was horrible? Is here? Our
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offense was horrific? Why, well, I don't know, let's see could
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could be players? Okay, So let's let's go find some guys. Okay,
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we're doing that. We're we've got a running back we've got two wide
31:23
receivers, we got a quarterback. Okay, Now I wouldn't say getting Dylan
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Roola was on the checklist. No, so no, probably a bonus that
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you get from so great. So we're doing that, good job Rule.
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Now part oh, other part to that on our offense is Okay, let's
31:44
let's look at our offensive staff. Are we doing the things that we want
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to do as a program. Do we need to bring some other guys in
31:51
that will help us offensively from a scheming standpoint? Okay, we're doing that.
31:56
We get another offensive coordinator on the staff. Still don't know where Dana
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Holgerson or what the hell the deal is with him? An a QB coach,
32:05
ANQB coach. So we're doing all these things now, that's great,
32:08
Like we're checking things off the checklist. That's awesome, that's great. What
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it's going to come down to are are the guys and is the system and
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the people that we're bringing in and you know, the decision to keep Tony
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White, Like are those the right guys? And can you put the puzzle
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pieces together in the correct way to do it? Remember Rule's first guy that
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he goes and gets last year, first guy. I want to bring this
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guy in Nebraska to be my quarterback with Jeff Sims. And I'm not judging
32:44
everything with rule on one person, but that's how he started at Nebraska with
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Britain. That was his quarterback he wanted to start. Now, may have
32:52
been limited at the time, maybe give him a little bit of credit there,
32:57
but these guys still have they still have to produce people Like it's not
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like everything is fucking fixed because we got them to come to Nebraska, that's
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what. But we we don't have an excuse. You have everything you want,
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you guys. You can say that for years though with Husker football.
33:14
We've had the facilities, we've had every we've had every reason to be good.
33:19
But now you have this quarterback. It's always been our quarterback's not good.
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Was the acy Thompson was the answer. Jeff Sims going into last year
33:32
was the answer. Adrian Adrian was the answer. Like these guys were these
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guys were now from a star standpoint, no, we haven't. But again,
33:46
I don't stars are stars like whatever. I I just don't. I
33:51
don't. I I don't value stars like maybe some people do. With recruiting,
33:58
I recruiting intrigues me. It's it's kind of fun because you can put
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numbers to it and compare across programs like but I mean, the best thing
34:07
you feel good about is like Banks, he's coming in and you saw his
34:09
production at wake Forest. It's like, oh, he's actually done it on
34:13
the field. That's what you feel okay about. Yes, so what you're
34:17
saying kind of yeah, I mean kind of. But like Billy Kemp,
34:21
we're like, Okay, Billy Camp's gonna be the guy he did he did
34:23
you know, he look at him at Virginia. He did stuff at Virginia
34:27
and and we got quite the same level. Was got. Yeah he's gone.
34:36
I think I don't know. Yeah, So that that's just that's just
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my whole feel on recruiting, Like is it great it, yes, have
34:47
enjoy it, but comes down to winning winning winning games, not not winning
34:53
the spring game, like winning football games in the fall. Hype train off
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this this spring game is gonna be awesome. I mean, yeah, it's
35:05
already there. Whatever, I just get sicky here at Stars. I just
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stars are fine. Whatever. Look go look at all the NFL quarterbacks right
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now that are in the playoffs. Still every single one of them, and
35:20
tell me how many stars they had coming out of high school. That's your
35:27
home, that's your homework. That's your homework that I saw though, Like,
35:30
there's thirty five five star quarterbacks in the last ten years. Lamar might
35:36
have been a four that were eligible to keep be drafted or something. Was
35:39
it ten years, seven years, I remember what the timeframe was. But
35:44
out of the thirty five, seventeen of them were in the NFL. Go
35:47
just that's your homework. Out of the starting quarterbacks left and then and the
35:52
NFL playoffs, there's eight teams left right there. Eight? Yes, tell
35:59
me what there's stars are? The height My boy was zero. I'll tell
36:04
you right now. Tua was a five star. He's gone. And then
36:09
there's that. I won't spoil spoil your guys research what uh? What?
36:16
Who do you guys got? FIFA playoffs right now? Eighteen? One more
36:21
note about fans for portal see you guys big Oklahoma fans now or what?
36:25
No, he's your boys, your boys are quarterback now? Yeah? What
36:31
what do you think of that? Like he said he's coming to be the
36:35
backup. I say he's not starting, No, which I'll take him as
36:40
our backup. That's a hell of a backup. I'm with you that.
36:45
I mean, I'd take him as a backup. I would. I want
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to do with Oklahoma football deck. So no NFL wise, though, I
37:00
want, I want all upsets. Give me the Texans, Give me the
37:02
Packers. Give me I don't know who's favorite of the Chiefs, Buffalo Bills
37:08
game Bills. Bills are by two and a half. M give me the
37:15
Bills. Patrick Mahomes first road playoff game insane outside of neutral site Super Bowls,
37:23
of course. Oh boy, give me anyone about the Packers. I
37:30
I hate them. I'm ryan with the Oh Buccaneers for sure. I'm rying
37:36
with yeah, give me the Bucks too, Yeah, I love I want
37:39
the Packers to win because I freaking hate Aaron Rodgers. And if they just
37:44
go on to the NFC Championship the year after he leaves, like how great?
37:47
The Bucks are not good? Oh, they're not watching them, Like
37:52
the SATs kicked their ass late in the year and then they won nine to
37:57
nothing to secure their spot and they play goals team that's just beat up the
38:01
ship. Okay, if Baker played great, that game is here. Trey
38:05
Palmer ripped off of Teddy. He woke up mad. Jurgens had two penalties.
38:13
Last comment on that, Kim Kim and Levonte David both had penalties on
38:16
the same play. I'm like Jesus rub it in Nebraska football space a little
38:22
more. All Right, Well, we'll be back Dak. You want to
38:28
sing a closing national anthem to or not? Nope, I'm good. Okay,
38:35
we will be back here in a week or two. See if we're
38:37
any happier with Usterer basketball. Probably not. Hopefully go back Red you are,
38:45
move more sooner. T