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Episode 6.41: PBA = Opponent's Nighmare · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast. Happy Snow Day everyone, Sunday, January fifth,
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  Speaker 1: Dak got off of work on Sunday, right, because you're
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  Speaker 1: a big Sunday worker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, finally gave me a day off. Jesus been helping
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  Speaker 2: for snow finally came.
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  Speaker 1: Not as much as we expected. Question Mark, I guess Austin,
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  Speaker 1: you're in Omaha. You've probably got like nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I know, you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing stuck a little bit on some dirt patches, but
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  Speaker 4: nothing stuck, not like I was supposed to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys, got you guys, probably a lot down
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  Speaker 5: there though.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the forecast was like anything from five to I
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  Speaker 1: saw eighteen. I think we end up getting probably about
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  Speaker 1: five or six. So definitely the low end of what
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  Speaker 1: we expected. Was good to see some snow. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: not an opinion that everybody has, but it's winter time.
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  Speaker 1: We got to have some snow on the It's good.
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  Speaker 1: We got a Nebraska basketball game in though yesterday before
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  Speaker 1: everything started up, and what a game it was, beating
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  Speaker 1: the UCLA Brewins sixty six to fifty eight. An ugly slugfest.
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  Speaker 1: And that's our big headline, key headline here today that
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  Speaker 1: we'll kick off with is the impressive job that this
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff continues to do with this team and as
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  Speaker 1: of right now, like you can't ask for much more.
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  Speaker 1: Where we're at through the first fifteen games of the
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  Speaker 1: season for Nebraska.
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  Speaker 4: Basketball, Yeah, I mean outside of like, if you just
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  Speaker 4: look at the record and who we beat, it feels
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  Speaker 4: pretty good. You know, you look at how we lost
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  Speaker 4: our one conference game, but that that feels a long
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  Speaker 4: time ago. You almost forget that it was ugly and
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  Speaker 4: I you know, we know this team goes through hot streaks.
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  Speaker 4: I mean even yesterday were hot in in cold streaks.
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  Speaker 4: I should say yesterday we ended the game on what
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  Speaker 4: seven and a half minute go goal drought something like
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  Speaker 4: that had to be pretty freaking close, and we still
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  Speaker 4: pulled out the win. I liked the tweets going around saying,
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  Speaker 4: you know, welcome to the vault. PBA is where top
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  Speaker 4: twenty teams go to die. Feels a little bit aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, the last three games all right, all out, Hey, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Cronino said, the PBA or the atmosphere there did
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  Speaker 2: not matter at all. I mean, I mean, would you
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  Speaker 2: got dba's gotta be like one of the toughest stay
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  Speaker 2: in playing right now.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the that's the conversation. I didn't go to
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  Speaker 1: the game. I Austin, did you go?
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  Speaker 3: Nope, I was on the road.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's we're expensive. I was gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, I mean expensive hus basketball forty bucks
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  Speaker 2: past fifty bucks piece.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just I mean just to get in for nosebleeds
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  Speaker 1: and it sold out a couple of days ago. Like
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  Speaker 1: it it is. I don't think it's not a joke anymore.
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  Speaker 1: People say that it is one of the toughest places
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  Speaker 1: to play. It's now twenty game win streak. I believe
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  Speaker 1: at home, and it's not like we're just beating a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of cupcakes, Like, yeah, there's been some close games
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  Speaker 1: and we've beaten some damn good teams in Pinnacle Bank Arena,
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  Speaker 1: and that place seemed like it was rocking. Just by
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  Speaker 1: watching the game and the highlights, it just seemed very
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  Speaker 1: loud for a game that the students are on Christmas break,
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  Speaker 1: like they are technically still not back to then.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know because I was like, I was
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  Speaker 4: listened to it on the radio and they were saying
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  Speaker 4: they're like, yeah, there are a couple of TV times
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  Speaker 4: just like if there was a TV time out, that
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  Speaker 4: place would have been absolutely like rocking beyond what it
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  Speaker 4: already was. But the TV time that's kind of sucked
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of the air out at some key moments.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know, on on on the radio, sound
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  Speaker 4: like it was going nuts.
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  Speaker 2: When they've in, they've won twenty in how many of
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  Speaker 2: those twenty been ranked? I mean probably there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of no names because about the year does all that
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  Speaker 2: but perdue I know last year U C l A.
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  Speaker 1: I mean just a lot of these Big ten games
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  Speaker 1: are Big ten games, and I mean ranked teams for
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  Speaker 1: sure are obviously an added bonus. It is not a
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  Speaker 1: place that anybody wants to play in. Mick Cronin, the
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  Speaker 1: former Cincinnati coach and now at UCLA, known for his
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  Speaker 1: defense and the toughness that they play with. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just joining the Big Ten, having to come to Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be a little bit of an eye opener.
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  Speaker 1: And don't look now, but is this team? Is this program?
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  Speaker 1: I should say, not this team, but this program, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's weird. We're just kind of sitting at maybe a
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  Speaker 1: constant tournament team type of conversation now year after year,
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  Speaker 1: which is that's where Hoiberg wanted to get this program
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  Speaker 1: the first step anyways for moving it somewhere. It's I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it, it's kind of exact opposite of our football.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it's because our football program has been
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  Speaker 4: down and we're just excited we're looking for something we're not.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's such a sad thing to look at
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  Speaker 4: the football program down, like, well, let's look at this
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  Speaker 4: program that's.
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  Speaker 3: On the up.
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  Speaker 1: So I had this thought, and I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: the reason. But one of the big things that I've
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  Speaker 1: always talked about with the football team is the off
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  Speaker 1: season hype, that added pressure, that the all the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: the publicity, the different things the coaches and players have
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  Speaker 1: to do because of all the coverage and taking away
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  Speaker 1: from actually what matters is winning a football game. I
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  Speaker 1: believe we talked about that last week or two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: was it's becoming kind of like the NBA is now
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  Speaker 1: where everybody gets so juiced up about the intangible stuff
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  Speaker 1: but not actually the result of the game, and including
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  Speaker 1: players and coaches like that. I think what happens with
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  Speaker 1: football on the opposite end of the spectrum for basketball.
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  Speaker 1: We just were just like, all right, we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: this team looks like next year.
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  Speaker 4: The week before tip off is when you do your all. Right,
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  Speaker 4: let's break down who's on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a project because of the football team,
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  Speaker 1: because we are talking about that a lot. And so
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  Speaker 1: as a result, this team is very focused on the
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  Speaker 1: right things and they're putting pieces together that are producing wins.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I mean you look at you look at
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  Speaker 1: this game. I mean that's break down this game itself.
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  Speaker 1: You CLA started up seven oh. Then we went on
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  Speaker 1: a fifteen oh run and UCLA went on a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: oh run. The Nebraska went on a seven oh run,
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  Speaker 1: and we were tied twenty two to two and half.
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  Speaker 1: You look at some of the stats. Bryce Williams is
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  Speaker 1: two for sixteen. I think Connor's season from three like
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  Speaker 1: we got beat right, No way we won this game.
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  Speaker 1: No Like this team found a way to win an
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  Speaker 1: ugly mucket up game, which is exactly the style that
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  Speaker 1: UCLA likes to play with. Like it is it's the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of the football program. And props to Hoiberg and
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  Speaker 1: staff and the program right now for being where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: Not to say we're locked into the tournament and now
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  Speaker 1: we're a top twenty five team and this is awesome. No,
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  Speaker 1: like there's a lot of work to be done, but
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  Speaker 1: it's very impressive. And you go beat Iowa now on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Probably ranked so.
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  Speaker 4: All right, it's we were talking about this in the car,
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  Speaker 4: me and my brothers, Like, if Fred wins two tournament
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  Speaker 4: games this year, is he the best men's basketball coach
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  Speaker 4: in Husker history?
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  Speaker 3: But I mean you.
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  Speaker 1: Could, you could argue him to argue, and back to
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  Speaker 1: back years puts them up.
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  Speaker 5: As a statue built.
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  Speaker 4: But I think you gotta win a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: than that to get a statue.
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  Speaker 2: Of know, you might only need one here now if
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  Speaker 2: you'd have told me that they I mean U c
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  Speaker 2: l A is now like shooting lights up that they
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  Speaker 2: beat E c A with the season not making a
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  Speaker 2: single three and bright to the Lilliams not being your
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  Speaker 2: lean being your leading score.
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  Speaker 5: I can't remember, but.
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  Speaker 1: I mean from the free throw line. Another thing that
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  Speaker 1: is just like brand new to Nebraska is making free throws.
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  Speaker 2: That that was the type of game though U c
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  Speaker 2: l A wants to play, and you you beat them
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  Speaker 2: in their own style which is because that game was
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  Speaker 2: physical as hell, Like players are all over the floor.
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  Speaker 2: U a player that could not even move moves his
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  Speaker 2: right arm at the end of game, may or me
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  Speaker 2: or whatever how you say. It was just knocking him
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  Speaker 2: over the whole game book and jail and put down
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  Speaker 2: one of the hardest screens I've ever saw. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a physical game.
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  Speaker 1: It yeah, and it worked. That played to our advantage. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Bark he transferred from UCLA last year because
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  Speaker 1: there were guys coming in in the portal slash he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't playing, And I mean you could argue at times
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  Speaker 1: he may be our third best player like that. That's
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  Speaker 1: what's fascinating. I think everybody would, you know, put Bryce
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  Speaker 1: as probably our best. But after that, like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's so great about these past couple of years
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  Speaker 1: of Hoiberg's teams is that you don't know what you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get on any given night in a good way,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a bad way, but a lot of times a
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  Speaker 1: good way from all these other guys. And Andrew Morgan
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  Speaker 1: like turns it over on three or four possessions, but
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  Speaker 1: then comes down and dominates the next four possessions in
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  Speaker 1: a row and ends up with twelve points. Goes. Four
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  Speaker 1: were from the free throw line. Like that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get from these guys, and it's it's awesome because
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to scout, it's hard to game plan for.
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  Speaker 1: You have a lot of pieces, a lot of balanced
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  Speaker 1: pieces with this team that that that's good. And and
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  Speaker 1: Bryce the one guy that we said, okay, he needs
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  Speaker 1: to he needs to do his thing. He still knows
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  Speaker 1: when that switch needs to get turned on. And even
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  Speaker 1: though he didn't shoot great early on from the field,
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  Speaker 1: he got to the free throw line and when we
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  Speaker 1: got there, we made.
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  Speaker 4: Him Andy Katch Player of the Player of the Week,
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  Speaker 4: right m hm. I also felt this was the first
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  Speaker 4: uh Sam Hoiberg game. I felt like we had a
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  Speaker 4: couple of those, and I mean he's had, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of moments, but this is the first one
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  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, there's the Sam Hoiberg from last year
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  Speaker 4: where he just comes in and just steals a couple
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  Speaker 4: of balls, hit hits a three, you know, feisty defense,
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  Speaker 4: gets the ball out of the other player's hand.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is kind of the first Same Hoiberg
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  Speaker 3: game this year that I felt was.
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  Speaker 4: Like, Oh, yeah, there's the the undersized point guard that
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  Speaker 4: if he was four which is taller, he'd probably be
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  Speaker 4: an NBA prospect.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why he doesn't shoot more threes. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like everyone that he puts up goes in like
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  Speaker 2: he's deep. Barely ever shoots them, but they always go in.
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  Speaker 2: And and I don't even think about that about what
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  Speaker 2: you said about Hoyberg, how he's building these teams with depth,
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  Speaker 2: Like last year you have multiple people that can come
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  Speaker 2: in and you trust.
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  Speaker 5: Now like it's not You're not a stacked team, it's deep.
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  Speaker 2: At the first couple of years, he he just he's
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  Speaker 2: been working for this because he's got the roster and
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  Speaker 2: just kept trying to find players that wanted to play
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  Speaker 2: system and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll know it's is it is it.
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  Speaker 2: Almost better to have one star player or have multiple
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  Speaker 2: players that are like decent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look at look at the results of these teams.
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  Speaker 1: I I think the answer is very obvious, at least
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  Speaker 1: for Nebraska basketball right now, is the rosters that we're building.
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  Speaker 1: I did this last night after the game and as
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  Speaker 1: I was talking with some people about Hoiberg and the
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  Speaker 1: transformation that he's undergone with the identity. You're right, Dak, Like,
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  Speaker 1: look at the first couple of years we were he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to build a program that was very star
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  Speaker 1: talented at the top. You know, you mentioned guys like
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  Speaker 1: Kim mack Lonsover.
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  Speaker 5: That was that was the one right there.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of Teddy Allen, Like you remember these
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  Speaker 1: guys that that. I mean, the ball had to be
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  Speaker 1: in their hands or they were pissed and it it
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  Speaker 1: looked bad basketball. But they were talented. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: could make shots and go get their own, but it
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  Speaker 1: didn't produce winning basketball. And and as a result you
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  Speaker 1: saw what happened the transformation to what we're in now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that this is almost a complete one eighty
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  Speaker 1: from that. It's it's team basketball. I'll say it. It's
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  Speaker 1: basketball that I like to coach. At the basketball that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people like to watch. The team that
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  Speaker 1: defends and it plays together for each other. They're not
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  Speaker 1: playing for themselves. You can see all those trades, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of praise, but it's well deserved. Right
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  Speaker 1: now on where we're at it, it is very much
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  Speaker 1: of one to eighty from Hoiberg's first couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: I said that I didn't want Hoiberg here anymore. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I remember saying that after the first two years, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even after the third year, it was I thought it
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a chance. And he has flipped it completely
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  Speaker 1: into becoming a potential statue building coach at Nebraska.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there are ways away from building statues. But the
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  Speaker 4: other thing one I thought this team were going to
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  Speaker 4: struggle with hype.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 4: We really haven't played too many large, bigger teams, so
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  Speaker 4: it still could be an issue.
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  Speaker 3: But I've been I mean Beer k and Andrew Morgan.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like if rank Master was back, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you feel really good about.
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  Speaker 1: Just in me. I mean Braxton Mia. That is his
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  Speaker 1: strength is his length. I think he's what seven to
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  Speaker 1: one or six eleven seven for I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: his wingspans a couple of longer than that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So we'll see what happens when we get to
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  Speaker 4: against some of the bigger teams, like we handled Creighton,
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  Speaker 4: but they also had a really bad shooting night, so
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how they would pan out when we
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  Speaker 4: get to some of the tougher Big ten teams, but
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  Speaker 4: also the Big ten this year, I mean, who I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you have Rutgers in Maryland. Outside of that, you have
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  Speaker 4: your usual suspects produced you know, up there, but no
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  Speaker 4: one feels unbeatable.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, week in week out, it's they're all going
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  Speaker 1: to be winnable games, and that's what we're doing. I
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  Speaker 1: think to your point about bigger teams, we've you said it,
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  Speaker 1: have done well against those teams in the past. And
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  Speaker 1: I haven't shouted out this guy in a while, but
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  Speaker 1: Nate lens are our decordinator. No, it's incredible the system
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  Speaker 1: and the style that he has implemented that works against
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different offensive attacks, and I do I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a big reason for hoiberg success is some
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  Speaker 1: of the assistant coaches that he got rid of, not
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  Speaker 1: going to name any names there, but got rid of
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  Speaker 1: and replaced with some very very hungry, younger motivated guys
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  Speaker 1: that are doing a very good job right now. So
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  Speaker 1: the program's in a very very good spot. Now. That's
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  Speaker 1: not to say that things can't fall off, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how we handle some of this hype. Last year
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  Speaker 1: we handled it very very very well and continued just
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  Speaker 1: to roll when it got to later in the year,
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  Speaker 1: and we earned ourselves a eight seed. I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: In the tournament, six Big Ten teams got in out
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  Speaker 1: of fourteen. This year there's eighteen. I think we're doing
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  Speaker 1: the things now we need to do. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: and this is how I thought of it last year,
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  Speaker 1: win every game at home, which I know is not
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  Speaker 1: locked in, but gosh, it looks better and better every
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  Speaker 1: time we get a home win. And then if you
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  Speaker 1: do happen to drop one, that means you got to
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  Speaker 1: pick one up on.
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  Speaker 4: The road, right, And if we win our Armenian home games,
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  Speaker 4: we're a twenty win team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've beaten.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I currently looking at our schedule, we have three
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  Speaker 4: teams that are currently ranked.
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  Speaker 3: Left our schedule and none of those are at home. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Illinois at home, but.
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  Speaker 5: On the road.
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  Speaker 3: But pick up the I.
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  Speaker 1: Will win on Tuesday in the row. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: one that you can that's an added bonus, right, road
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  Speaker 1: wins in the Big Ten Conference. So again, praise for
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  Speaker 1: this game and how this game or this team and
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  Speaker 1: how they're playing right now. It's it's pretty fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a very like I said, together team playing
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  Speaker 1: for each other in the crowds behind it, the hype
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  Speaker 1: is going to come. A little number by their name
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  Speaker 1: might be coming sooner than later. Let's see how we
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  Speaker 1: handle that, uh, if we get there and that pressure,
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  Speaker 1: the media, the hype, all that stuff that has in
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  Speaker 1: my mind faulted the football team, Let's see if it
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  Speaker 1: affects a basketball program.
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  Speaker 5: And that's.
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  Speaker 2: The one main thing I still got. I still don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the heck boyer Berks team and the Rascas,
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  Speaker 2: especially last year, Like how different they look at home
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  Speaker 2: compared to the road. Still they look like too totally different. Like,
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  Speaker 2: come out Tuesday and prove you can win on the road. Now,
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  Speaker 2: like you just got throttled by Michigan Stay earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the season on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like that.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Was a terrible game.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: So come out Tuesday proving on the road, and then
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: from there, I actually will believe this team is really good.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: By really good, we mean middle middle seeding tournament team.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, maybe in an eight seed.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think if ideally, you'd be pretty
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: cool we get to a sixth seed or five seed
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that out of all going you know, by getting twenty
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: three twenty four wins, which we've never done.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Well, that's fir I think I go for a deck.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I'm beyonnest. I have not checked that Big ten basketball.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: How is the Big Ten in basketball season? The average stack, it's.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Kind of a product of the whole. I mean, basketball
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: as a whole is kind of leveled out. Big ten
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: is gonna beat itself up. There's some talented teams, but
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: everyone in college basketball is going to be I have
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: no one's going to have less than probably six losses.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I've said it before.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I think every matchup will be within a seven eight
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: point spread, no matter who's at home on the road,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: who's playing who. I just think the Big Ten is
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: very balanced that there's no top heavy teams, there's not
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: really any bottom tier teams. It's all very very balanced.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: So that makes every game very exciting to watch. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you don't feel like when you're going when you go
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: into a game, you don't don't feel like, man, if
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: we lose this one, that's a bad loss because a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: lot of these games, these teams are still good and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: if you win them, yeah, they're good wins, but there's
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: not I mean, you're not gonna get as much better
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: than beating U. C. L A. And that's pretty damn close.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: If you get blown out like Michigan State.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: You feel that's the bad loss because we lost by
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: what twenty seven, twenty six something like that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's real bad.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: That loss of that bad is like all this this
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: team sucks like that. That was just all hiphing to
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: get it. You didn't watch it, that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Was I still I don't. I haven't not seen a highlight.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I don't even like that game exists right now?
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Watch it?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Uh So, yeah, I own Tuesday and then we have
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a pretty tough stretch here coming up, so we'll see
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: how it goes. It'll be another fun team to watch.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And like Austin said too, this is without uh Rank
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Mass who's on the bench still helping. That says something
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: for itself, right that he's still around and you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: honestly kind of being like a coach, which one of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the players from last year's team is a coach in
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Josiah Alec, Like, I just think that tells you the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: type of culture right now that's going on in Nebraska
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: for their basketball program.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: People want to be around the program. It's not I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: here to get mine and I'm gonna leave. It's now
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I'm here. I'm here because of us sort.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Of energy take notes football program. And I do think
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that the.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: The balanced.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Conference, Big Ten Conference and all that conversation in college
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: football in general is coming. Like it's lagging behind the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: basketball college basketball because college basketball and the portal were
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a thing much longer, a bigger thing, much longer before football,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and that's.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: A smaller, smaller roster. You're going to see that consolidation earlier, and.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Rules rules hinted at that like and it's like he
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: knows that that's coming, and it is coming week in
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and week out. You just got to find a way
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to win. And right now we don't do that as
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a football program, not yet, not yet, or seems like
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: maybe we're moving that way. But yeah, any other basketball praise.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: No praise women. On the other side of the women,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I've had a little rough go of it, but.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Okay they have. We just got done playing our a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: little tough USC UCLA road trip, and I watched a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: lot of both of those games. We do a lot
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of tamp good things and we are still a very
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: good basketball team, but especially in women's basketball, it has
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: been for years. You do have tops talented teams and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: talent yes, oh my gosh, and women's basketball like it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: If you have that it is it's it's hard. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I will say we did some really good things against
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: both those teams early on, and then by the third
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and fourth quarter we just got worn out and just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: got doors blown off us. That's what happened both of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: those games. So there's a lot of good things there.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It's just it's just hard to compete with those top
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: tier teams.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: It was a really tough scratch.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, U C L, a USC and who's the
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: other team he lost to those ranked I'm not gonna remember,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: but I mean when you lose Natalie Pott's at the
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: beginning of the year was basically fifteen points, seven rebounds
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: last year, that's tough to replace. Again, when you're talking
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: about the top women's the top talent does drive the
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: games a little more than the men's just because the
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: floor is not quite caught up to the men's, just
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: because of the how women's sports have been progressed along
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: with men's.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: But they'll catch up eventually.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: But yeah, those top tier schools, they're tough to keep
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: up with now.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But that being said, we are right now, end of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the third quarter beating Penn State, fifty three to forty.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So it's all in perspective, right and and where the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: women's programs at. We have we have had some higher
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: seeded teams in the tournament, and we do have tournament wins,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and so the women's program still is probably ahead of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the men's where they're at just bars in the entire
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Division one landscape. But yeah, but it's it's tough now.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: You're as a women's program, You're trying to get to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that next stage, right the next teer up if you can.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: That's where you're at. And I think we're still moving
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in that direction. I will say Britt Prince is incredible,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Like you watched her, she is.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: The key.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I think keeping her here in Nebraska. I don't think
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: there's any reason she has to leave, but keeping her
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: around and as a freshman right now, she has a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: lot of really good things for us. And we have
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: good pieces around her too. Losing Pops kills, but some
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: of these other girls have stepped up and do a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: lot of really good things for us. So especially when
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: teams are keen and on Markowski, I mean, that's what
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: they're gonna do. After the year she had last.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Year, I mean I'm not. I think we're a tournament team.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: It's just it's just a bummer of what the expectation
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: was going into this year and then just you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: losing pots. You didn't realize how much, but because I
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: really thought we're gonna be a top fifteen team going
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: into the tournament. And that's probably partly on me for
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: having those expectations.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: But you know how it goes.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: All right, move on to football here.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Wait, Dak doesn't want to add anything to the women's basketball.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna not gonna act like I watched
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a second. I can I can make up some stuff,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: but I mean, so I've watched the list.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Uh football program, uh some news this week, and I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: just I think we're just gonna have to get used
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to just chipping this in weekend and week out, because
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: with the there's always gonna be that. But I would
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: say the biggest news that came out yesterday was Ed
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Foley is no longer with the program, and that was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: big news, but I think expected news. As far as
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the complete overhaul that rule mentioned with the special teams,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I don't have many reactions to it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: It's nice that we didn't have to fire him. His
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: contract just expired, yeend it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Like I think that's fine, that's great. Like I I
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: don't think he probably should have came back based on
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: how things have gone and we do. We just we
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: need to try something different once again.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: It is funny going into year three, I feel like
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: there is a general positive vibe. I know there's doubts,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: but there I'd say overall it's a general positive energy.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But usually if you go into a year and you
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: have a new offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and a special
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: teams coordinator, you're usually like, oh man.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: This is probably the hot seat year. But I don't
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: think that's the energy. I could be wrong, but.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Well, heh we won our last game, true like it
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it is still it was better than last year. It's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. I don't think it
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: was the as many steps as a lot of people wanted,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: including I think all of us. But I do agree
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: it's probably a little more positive. I'm just trying to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: keep the mindset like the basketball team, like we just
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: talked about, we'll see, like, we'll see what happens next year.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I it the off season is going to be crazy
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: as always and.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get our weekly off season. These players left,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: these players are in the ever changing roster.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, are I have not hung the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: banner yet for off season national champs? I believe I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: did as of last year, So I have not done
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that yet.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we did get a faster quarterback last year.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: We did.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: There's definitely there was a for a team that hasn't
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: made a ball game in seven years to get like
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: the number one or number two quarterback in a class
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: felt really freaking good.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: He did like, that's not let's not lie.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And to that point, before we get into the transfers,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I was I'll say I was wrong again. I did
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: not think Dylan Royolo would stay after going six and six.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't that was a chance. And I thought that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: his his ego and just this entire vibe from the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: program would be like I'm gonna go get paid somewhere else.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And there's still gonna be those rumors there that's gonna
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: last until we he can't transfer into going into next year.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: But the fact that he's still here I think does
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: as positive. I think it's seething you that you, as
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a fan won him as your quarterback, which I think
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: there's some improvements to be made, but I think more
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: so the pieces that he brings in and the hype
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and the other players that he that we are getting
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because of him, is even more important right now than
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the product on the field. And then once we get
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to the season next year, that's when the product of
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the field matters. So I'll say that impressive and that
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: he's still here, that's great, and I think that's good
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: for the program.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: And he's recruiting for us. I mean, he's not just here.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: He is investing his own time and effort into bringing people.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Here where there are reports that how much money he
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: could have gotten, you know if he entered the market.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I mean that that was out there. So you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: players are doing that, several of them, including potentially some
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: of these guys. Again, we're not going to know the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: true reasoning behind people entering the portal really ever, it's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: still very very much the wild West, and people can
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: just enter and see what they're worth and see if
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: they want to come back leave. That could be playing time,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: could be whatever.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: It.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Since last Saturday or Sunday, Jalen Moyd entered the portal again,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the local guy from Omaha didn't play much this year,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and going into the year, I think everybody thought he
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: was going to see a lot of minutes. Him and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Malachi Coleman, both of them, neither one of them so much.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: We bring in two guys from the portal veteran junior seniors,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and j Cory Barney steps up and kind of fills
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that spot that you thought Jalen Moyd might be in there,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: So he enters a portal. I don't I don't know.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: He probably has a chance or had a chance to,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you know, prove himself here. But you know what, like
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: we brought in, we're bringing another guy still, and that's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: right now seems like to be the strategy of Dana
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: since he's got here. But even rule like let's go
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: find veteran wide receivers, and I don't mind that. I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I've kind of got my head to the receiver position
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: as like, you don't need elite wide receivers. Anybody can
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: be good at the system and the style.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Creates open space for them.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Correct. So and you see that in the NFL, Like
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: look at some of the best offenses in the NFL.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Like that.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: It doesn't always as around and like the Chiefs, like
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: what what what do they have for receivers? What have
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: they had for receivers for years? Not elite? Not elite guys.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe you could have called him e leite, but he's not.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: They don't have elite guys like that. The Bills, who
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: is on digs elite?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Who's the number one receiver this year?
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Could you tell me dis elite at killing teams?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean Justin Jefferson rides on the Vikings
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and they're having a very good year.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: DAK, but they also have three other receiver Yeah, they
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: have also three other stud ones.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: They either need a stud quarterback or three stud receivers.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So is my point. I think that the strategy and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: having veteran guys, I think that are a little more
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: built and at played minutes. I think for the wide
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: receiver position, I think that it might be okay, now
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Banks and they or I don't think panned out to
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: what we wanted them to be. I don't think we
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: hit on those guys, but I think it's still a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: good strategy to go after from a receiver position, or
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: at least something to try. Because yeah, jayl Lloyd leaves,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: we add another Kentucky receiver hardly Gilmour of the fourth
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: that follows dain Key who committed the week before, and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: then wide receivers coach to kill shortz coming from Kentucky.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So we get a couple of those guys, we get
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a linebacker from Georgia Southern that has one year left,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and then the big one that came out yesterday, Thedoni
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: has said he's not returning and has entered the portal.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Interesting that one was that that one is the other one.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I want to spend some time on here and what
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: that means. But why this year was a very up
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and down year for Thomas. He got benched, I believe
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: even one game and didn't see the field at all,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: like two snaps, and then had some good weeks of
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: practices according to the staff, and then came off good.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Games after the offensive coordinator switch correct.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: So it's interesting to say the least, and both Lloyd
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and him. The other thing that I found with FDONI
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that someone posted after all this came out, he's like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: our sixth career leading reception leader in Nebraska tight end history,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: which I was like, holy shit, wow, that's like impressive,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and then like yards he was like seventh, I think,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: which I didn't expect in just two years because a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: lot of the guys ahead of him more three or
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: four year guys. He was the number one rated tight
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: end recruit when we got him in a few classes ago.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Obviously got injured with his knee several times, and he's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: not the first time into leave either. Borcature is also gone.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: It's just.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it was a his decision or
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: a Dana because I mean there were times where he
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: when he was slow. I think we all can agree
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: he looked like he's lost a step. That's for injuries,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: which is reasonable, and then there are also a couple
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: of times where he blew. I mean, he wasn't the
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: best blocker, so he was slow and not good at blocking,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: and they said Dana benched him his first game as
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: an offensive coordinator. I was like, yeah, I'm not happy
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: with his performance, and then pumped him up after a
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: couple of practices. I'm wondering if it's more of a
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Dana's like, hey man, we got guys coming in here,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Heiner Carberg switching over to tight end, and I'd rather
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: have him play than you, So I'm.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Glad you said that I don't know Thomas Padoni at
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: all personally. I don't have a clue what his mindset is.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I also don't know Dylan Royal as mindset. I don't
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: know any of the players. I don't know them. But
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: this time, did Thomas Madoni have a little bit of
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I deserve to be on the field because I wasn't
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the number one recruit type of attitude and wasn't much
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of a team guy, team first guy. I don't know that.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I just speculated when stuff was happening,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately, this is the reality of it. When you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: see a post on Facebook that flies around of his
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: mom posting something and in the middle of the year and
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: complaining about how the coaching staff has ruined for DONI like, sorry,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: like parents, parents are idiots of kids that are playing sports,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Like you probably did not put out a good impression
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: in front of all the other players and coach, not
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the coaches, but the other players when that gets put
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: out out there, like you're trying to build a program
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that plays together like the basketball team is doing and
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: for each other, and your mom goes out and says
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that this coaching staff ruined him and because of what
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: happened and all this stuff, like, yeah, it's hard to
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: recover from that. It is. It's hard to bounce back
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: from that at a program that is making a lot
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of changes right now and a lot of players see
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: that and coaches see that. So not blaming it all
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: on her, but that just I think is the situation
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: that he was in and why I'm kind of speculating that.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: You're right. I think Dame is like, you're either in
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: or you're out, and if you don't want to be in,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: then go, and Thomas said, Okay, I'll go. I think
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: that could have been how the conversation happened based on
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: how they were game planning and strategy thing. We're Heiner.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Carberg's the opposite right now. And I'll say it. I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: sat behind his mom at the Indiana game and she
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: was piss pissy, I mean very pissy about Ryola and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you know obviously that game didn't go well. But on
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the flip side, he is now instead of taking the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: woe is me attitude and throwing fits and making it
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: a big deal, he's saying, all right, move me positions,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I'll go do this, I'll go play tight end put
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: me out there and as a result, that's those are
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the kind of guys that coaches want, that are that
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: are Nope, coach, what do you want me to do?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I'll do it? And Heinrich's doing that. So there's very
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: two opposite comparisons. How kids would also parents and have
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: an impact in what it means of being a part
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: of a team.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think. I don't even the coach is
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: killed for day. I think that was injuries.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't like he He was just so
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: slow all year long. And he's even the most playable,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: like said most time. But but these three Coleman, Fidoni,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: and Lloyd, I don't think he really made those guys
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: at all. You you didn't use them that much. And
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I I think Harvard it's not much harder. It's not
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: very hard to be a better Tedding than if Fidoni was.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I think he's already gonna be better. So you got
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: him in there, and then you got other trans Rice
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: heiers are coming in are probably better than one.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Coleman. Like, it's not you're not a curusing.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Much now Coleman is gonna go out and dominate Minnesota.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: But no, no, I.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Don't now.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Now I do. I do wish they would have.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Used those two more though last year why they did
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: not at all, it's it's.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: It's fun to talk about, right and try to make
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: things potentially big things, and when maybe they are, maybe
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: they aren't. I think bottom line is with all these
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: guys coming in and leaving and doing it, it's that's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: your strategy. That's what you believe in, playing Malachi Coleman
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: versus read shirting, and that's part of your strategy and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: your long term vision. Using Jalen Lloyd, using Thomas Fedoni
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: with what you think you can get out of him
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: with his injury, Like, that's all part of your your
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: scheme and your game plan. And then when you get
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to the off season, you have another picture of what
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you want your roster to look like next year. And
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: that was earlier when I was saying, I think this
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: coaching staff wants to go get veteran guys. We might
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: just be doing that year in and year out, like
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: even Nayer's not sticking around, so we were we're getting
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: this new guys, and then that's part of your strategy,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: that's part of your game plan. That's been Nebraska basketball
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: strategy over the last couple of years, and it's working.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: The key thing is it's working football. It needs to work.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: And you can say this is right or wrong, and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: we didn't use these guys right, or we use this
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: guy too much, or you can say that better be
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: winning games one way or the other. It doesn't matter
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: what you're doing, but that's part of your conscious decision
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: of how you're structuring your team win football games.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: What does it say when we have the most expensive
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: tight ends coach in the country and we've lost our
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: top two tight ends from last year.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: That's what's great about this era. And I'll say it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I still think rule is right now the option that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: we need to go with. As far as navigating everything,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: every school is navigating it in what they think is
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the right way. I heard someone talk about Saban and Alabama,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and I can't remember who this was, but basically they
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: said Saban knew he messed up like Saban got was
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: old school and got behind the times and he figured
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: out that, oh crap, I'm lagging behind Tennessee, Kirby Smart
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: at Georgia Ole Miss and Kiffin, I'm lagging behind the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: times of Nil and the portal and it's I'm not
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: gonna do this. I'm gone. Like, not that that was
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the sole reason, but I think that how was like,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: that's that's fascinating, and you.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Can win the title the next five years. He would
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: have stuck around. Yeah.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And and so then Kaylen de Bor comes in and
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he's got his own strategy, right, it's different. Did it
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: work this year, I'd say no, like compared to what
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the expectations were for Alabama. But at the same time,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: that's his that's that's his big picture program, how he
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: thinks it needs to be built. He was a lot
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: more mucky mucky with the players. And I saw someone
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: celebrate or do something early on in the year and
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, can you imagine what would
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: have happened to that guy under Saban, Like it's just
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: a different philosophy in how you want to coach. And again,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of different ways can win games. But that's
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the result is winning games. If you can do it
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: based on what you come up with, then great. If
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you're not, then you're not a good coach. That's just that.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: That is what it is. And and rule went from
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: five wins to six wins technically seven with the Bowl
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: game win. Okay, great, like that's progress. Let's continue to
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: build on that and see where it ends up next year.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's interesting. I this.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: I just got back from a holiday family gathering in
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: my uncle who's a diehard Wazoo fan, Washington State fan,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: and he's talking about from the perspective of the two pack,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: and he just he's like, I just hope everything burns.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: I just want the world just a follow a part of.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: The mil everything, like we got screwed over in a
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: bad game of musical chairs and everyone no one else
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: is ready, but we're gonna be just this lone wolf,
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: you know, watching State against the world, and when everything
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: falls apart, we're gonna be ready. It's it was interesting.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: It's funny. There's just a lot of perspective out there.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Is he is he from here?
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: No, he's from Washington.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Guy's gonna say if he's die or what he died from?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Washington State fan?
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: H Yeah.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I rule really flipped around from the beginning of the
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: portal because everyone was dipping out right as Tony White left,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: and now he's got he's kind of rebounded here with
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: all his all these players coming in a lot of
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: offensive though I don't the defensive side of the ball.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Still might be a little tricky next year.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know that that's that'll be the in I
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: think your offense will be fine next year. Well, if
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I all improve, we'll see about that. But I think
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: your defense is gonna be the side of the ball
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: you're definitely be the most worried about next year.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: But transfer still could still come in.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: It is it's at this it's the timing of in
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the lack of structure really around it. And I'm sure
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: there's more than we know with the dates and stuff
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: that you can enter and visit and sign and whatever,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: but there is still things that come. And obviously the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: first step is leaving, so you're gonna have more eyes
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: leaving than coming in.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: I say, the disappoint defense, I think we've got our
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: top endrew like potential guys have been on the defensive side,
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: but we've had much more proven offensive guys. Man, it'd
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: be nice to Xavier watch transferred back home, you know,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: just to nice little that's not happening.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: But uh So, that was the last thing I want
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: to talk about today, and was the culturable playoff and
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the quarterfinals now wrapped up. We got Texas, We've got
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, we got Penn State, and we got.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: The Ohio State University.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: State University. It's based on them someone, I guess I'll
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: call them new But you know, these are all bad,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: very good years overall, but all had their lapses at times.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: All also played home games first round, right, yeah, these
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: are the four teams that had the home game. So
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I just I'm laughing because this whole playoff thing has
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: caused more conversation about what's good and bad about it
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: than anything else. And I guess I don't care, like,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: let it play out, let it be, let it like
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: this was great for especially this year when there wasn't
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: any great teams.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: And do we, like I said, do we think that
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: the first round buy was a negative for anyone? Do
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: we think anyone got a disadvantage from.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Being the first round by No?
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: This is how this is how the media works. Though
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: if every one of the top four seeds would have won,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: that the narrative would have been they don't they all
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: got a break and they all did to play an
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: extra game where these other you know, these teams that
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: are better, right, got got screwed because they had to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: play an extra game. But since all four of them one,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: now the narrative is everything with the buys is all
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: messed up and guaranteed it's just that's exactly how the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: public and everybody talks about talks about it all. So
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I don't let it play out, enjoy it like this,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: especially this year, with in probably years to come that
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be chaos. It's gonna be parody week after week,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: and teams are gonna play well on that. But who
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: can string together three wins or four in a row
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to win a national title? This year? Did we get
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the four best teams? I mean the left, I don't know, Like.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I think it's close. I mean I think for sure
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Oregon probably could have been in there.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: But the bottom line is the team that wins.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I know, I agree, I agree.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: That's the best team. And that's how there's called basketball.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Same way people are always got kind of debate the
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: seating and the regions, and people get screwed in O. Well,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: if you win six in a row, you're the champ.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: You're the best team. Like that's what tournaments are for.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: And everyone want to say, well, Alabama could have been.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Alabama just gets killed by Michigan. So like I it
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: is what it is. And the best team is going
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: to be the one that ends up at the top,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: and that's what matters.
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: Maybe not necessarily the best team, but the deserving team
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: they want to deserve. Like yes, because like, yeah, like
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: I said, I agree, it's probably the top four. Oregon
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: did beat O High Stand and Penn State. You're best
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: probably one team. You're like, well, maybe they could win it,
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: but who cares?
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: They lost?
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: So they got they got throttle.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: And and teams change over the year, like game got
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: beat by Northern Illinois. Northern Illinois fans are like, we
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: beat this team that's in the all. I guess what
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: that was week one? And what matters is are you
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: judging the best team by the entire season or are
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you judging them by where they end up at the
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: end of the year. It's the end of the year, people,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: That's what matters. The first parts of the year, coaches
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: strategize and try things and do things with players to
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: get themselves ready to win the important games end of
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the year, and you might slip up and lose one.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So at the end of the year, we went the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: other way.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: You know, you know what's interesting about these four teams
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: is I would say, I know if they are for sure,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: three out the four teams I would say are built
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: off defense, Like that's the strength their team.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: My house, stay on.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: You probably say their offense is better, but they have
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: they have gained a defense. That's an interest. Also real
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: quick here texts got really lucky.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: God, that was the hell of a game.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I will see that we should give our hats off
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: to scatter Boot for his performance.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: That was that was amazing.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, agree, I.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Said Bull season review. I'm glad the SEC just shipped
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: the bed for the most part.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, Texas almost Texas almost allowed this perfect moment,
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: but they got They snuck by with one.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Uh, Colorado got blown out. Was great. Iowa losing was great.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna say it, the Pop Turck Bowl it's
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: better than any of the other Bulls. It's by part
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: of the best. Like I have much more excited for
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: the Pop Tart Bowl than I was the Sugar Bowl.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Be at the Bowl. Maybe not the Rose Bowl, but.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, all these playoff games sucked besides the Texas one.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: No name Georgia's all right, but that was that was
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: a boring game, Like it wasn't that fun to watch. Well,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I think next year they're gonna have to flip around
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: these seeings something like totally.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Different teams next year, Like what's like, what are we okay?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I know That's what's funny this year is like who
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: would have thought that Boise State everyone just assumed that
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: the non power forward team would have been the five seeds,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: right like they just everybody assumed that just that was
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the assumption. They weren't even the four. They heard the three.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: So I'm just like people just need to let it
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: be and chill, like I I you're right that things
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: probably won't get moved around and changed, but like twenty
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: more teams, it's whatever, like that, we're gonna get the
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: champion and the most deserving best team whatever you wanna
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: call it. We're gonna get that.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Hopefully it's a good game.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: Hopefully the next two games are good games, because yeah,
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: they're none of them.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: If they're not, and someone comes down and kicks the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: crap out of both their games and great, like yeah
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: that's off, like great job.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: As a view, I'm not I guess yeah, I mean,
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: at this point I'm pulling for Big ten teams, so
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: I like Penn State and Ohio State to win.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: That'd be awesome. In the finals, I will say, that'd
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: be sweet.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: And I can't advice to this last podcast, But when
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: we had four teams, how many of those games were
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: good in the semifinals?
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: Never you had You're right, I don't know how. There's
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: just a couple of Michigan Georgia.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Was the only one I can Yeah, none of those
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: games were that close either, and title games you get
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: TCU Georgia and stuff like that, like there was. There's
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: never been like all around great games during these playoffs.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: But would you rather watch these teams in the playoffs or.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: The Peach Bowl?
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: But actually Peach Bowl might be a playoff game.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I think it is.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: It is the pump.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Tart twelve rules man, sign me up, the sprinkles on
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: the sideline, the tinfoil raptor on the posts, come on, rules.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: DJ play getting mail, Dundunion didn't pump you up?
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: No, that's not it. Give me pop tarts. I hope
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: that next year that'd be great.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: That give me your I'll get you some time here.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: You got the vikings coming up? Give me all your
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: predictions because by the time this airs, the game will
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: be over and will know what happened. Give me your
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: entire thoughts on this big game coming up here in
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: a couple hours against the Lions.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I so last week I was super common thinking me
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: the Packers. This one, I'm not as confident, but I'm
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: still I think we're gonna put up forty plus points
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: on the Lions. Now, tough part is ever gonna be
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: able to stop them or scoring forty plus. I think
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: this is if you have go throw all your bank
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: count on the over. I don't have no looks to
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: what it is because I don't think either defense is
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: can be able to stop the other offense. I think
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Lin's offense is that good and the Lion's defense is
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: that terrible that.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: The Vikings just gonna go up and down the field
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: onto Now.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I think he'll come down a funeral kicking at the end,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: which our kicker is kind of a mess right now,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: not good like last time came down to They came
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: down a fuel kicking too, their kicker drilled at being
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: to be as I think these two are about as
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: even as it gets like it's gonna be hell about
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: now can.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Say that because the Lions are like a super Bowl favorite,
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: like typeer super Bowl favorites. So you're basically saying the
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: Vikings are super Bowl favorites.
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: Oh I think they are.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go say it?
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: Can any team stop?
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Howkinson Addson Jefferson, That's that's the question. And now things
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: scares me. As Darnald does, I feel like I have
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: a game in him that he's just gonna throw five picks, Like,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: can you keep doing this?
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know how nervous one to ten Huh? How
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: nervous scale one to ten.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: Sticks?
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not so you locked up a playoff spot, So
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: you're really.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Just I don't act that just goes I'm nervous. I'm
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: nervous a one to ten six.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Last week I was a zero. I did I had.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: I was not worry.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be the Packers, Lion scared the ship. On
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: the other offense, It's it's not easy. Please please get
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: a one seed.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: By the way, the Titans just locked up the one.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: The one seed or the one first pick for the
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: NFL Draft goes Titans, Titans, Browns, Giants, Hats, Jags.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: And as we as we started the podcast, sorr right,
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: doctor pick to lose the game, and I didn't care.
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  Speaker 5: He started out hot, though.
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  Speaker 1: Better we got a better pick because of it.
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  Speaker 5: Top five don't close, and I hope you have to.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: The third.
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  Speaker 4: The top three picks are going to be quarterbacks. The
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: fourth pick is going to be that receiver from Arizona State.
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  Speaker 3: That's how.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't think gent is gonna get in there anywhere?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't seen one that would.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys are.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's only team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I don't know. He didn't look great
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  Speaker 4: when he played Penn State. But again, that's when I
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: will say that's even everyone. Your whole game plan is
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: stopping the run. But the.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Sitting there watching the PENCA game and like you know,
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: they might be stacking the box here.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: We're like, no, ship sure, lock, who you guys got
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: in the championship game?
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  Speaker 3: Before he sign off?
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Going to what going the championship game?
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Going to it?
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: No? Who do you have going to it? I believe
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: we'll have another episode before that. Yeah, we they played
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: this weekend before the before the championship games. Yeah, who's
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: going to the game? Not attending? Like okay, I thought
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: he said.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, are you going? He's like, no, I'm
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: not freaking going. I want to know who you have.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll go Notre Dame Ohio State.
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  Speaker 3: Favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna go to Texas, Penn State.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going Penn State, Ohio State.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: That's so awesome.
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: I think Ohio State what Michigan is woked them up,
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: which Michon might better than what we all thought, but
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know Michian mess has woked them up.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Ryan Day Also, wait, hold on, I forgot about this part.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Do you guys hang a banner if Ohio State wins
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  Speaker 2: the title?
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Do we hang a banner for almost beating.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: Them, almost be almost beating national champions?
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: It'll it'll help the off season Natty title rankings. I'll
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: tell you that.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I work.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, you should have beat him.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: You're right, we should have been a lot of teams
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: in the last how many years?
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back next Sunday, Dac, I'll give
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: you give you a school, all right, school gv R
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: go Mard