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Episode 14 | Husker Volleyball Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Go big way.
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  Speaker 2: It takes the numbers, the chaos, Hunter Austin Dak talking
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  Speaker 2: corn Husker football, basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And everything Nebraska sports. Welcome to the Return to Glory Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Return to Glory Podcast. I'm traditionally your
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  Speaker 2: co host Austin Rose. Join in me today Hunter Zarbiniki.
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  Speaker 3: And today.
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  Speaker 2: No Dak.
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  Speaker 3: Thank goodness, we're talking Nebraska volleyball.
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  Speaker 2: Can only imagine what kind of atrocity that would be
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  Speaker 2: with Dak trying to talk volleyball. We're talking twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six sees in preview. We're gonna do my beast of
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  Speaker 2: the I definitely watch it the most.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the most invested and most interested, and that.
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  Speaker 2: Means said I was a Lincoln were to the volleyball
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  Speaker 2: game and did start watching it until after I graduated.
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  Speaker 3: Launch was the only thing on TV that I watched.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna go over what iations are, kind of
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  Speaker 2: what the layout is, you know, recap kind of what
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  Speaker 2: happened last year, and you know, spoiler alerts. It's looking
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  Speaker 2: pretty good for this year too. For those of you
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  Speaker 2: who don't remember how last year went, we went thirty
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  Speaker 2: three and one on the year, did not win, lost
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  Speaker 2: in the Elite Eight against Texas A and M, who
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  Speaker 2: ended up ultimately going on to win.
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  Speaker 3: They just and that they were just so physical.
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  Speaker 2: And fast, and we just we got caught. We lost
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  Speaker 2: to what seemed to be looking to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the better seasons than volleyball pak to volleyball history. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: penstint because six twenty seven, whatever those years were where
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  Speaker 2: they went undefeated for like three years in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's a good big plane there. But there was
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  Speaker 2: a stretch last year where I don't even remember how
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  Speaker 2: many games in a row we didn't even lose a set.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was a crazy number.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of I forgot about that. Actually none said
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  Speaker 1: it a lot of sets we won.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was basically since it was like big ten play,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't lose a set until we were on the
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  Speaker 2: road against I don't even remember like U U S
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  Speaker 2: C or something U C l A like U C
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  Speaker 2: l A late late in the year.
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  Speaker 3: Austome.
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  Speaker 1: I do gotta say, I it's not the Ali. I
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  Speaker 1: love your sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you runs a baby.
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  Speaker 1: Just uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think they saw him on the robsite. Great Christmas present.
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  Speaker 2: I did you have the runs of flavored ice cream
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  Speaker 2: when they I have some of my freezer. So next
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  Speaker 2: time you're in town, I'm saving some. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 2: they nailed it. It's a bit abrasive and you eat
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  Speaker 2: it because you're like, this doesn't taste like ice cream,
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  Speaker 2: but boy does it taste like a Runs of ice like?
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  Speaker 1: Interesting if you're like.
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  Speaker 2: What does Runs of ice cream taste like? Think about
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  Speaker 2: what ice cream would taste like and literally put Runs
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  Speaker 2: in it. They freaking nailed it. But yeah, So last
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  Speaker 2: year was great year. First year under Danny Bustpoom Kelly
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  Speaker 2: and return home after the I would say, relatively surprised
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  Speaker 2: retirement of John Cook and we all kind of knew
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  Speaker 2: it was coming, but it was such a weird, weird
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  Speaker 2: transition per se. But she comes in, doesn't bring any
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  Speaker 2: of her staff from a really basically just one for
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  Speaker 2: one train for John Cook.
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  Speaker 3: And it works barely. Part of that helps when you
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  Speaker 3: have one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the most talented rosters in the country, which spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 2: we still have. We lost two players, basically two major
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  Speaker 2: rotational players.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Taylor l Taylor L Love was her Taylor not one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can picture her, but.
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  Speaker 3: I give picture too. Taylor Landfair, there we go, and
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  Speaker 3: then Rebecca Alec.
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  Speaker 2: We're really are two big contributors who graduated last year.
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  Speaker 2: There were you know, Mazy Boy Zigler and Ali Check
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  Speaker 2: also graduated, but they were not heavy rotational players. They
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  Speaker 2: got in a couple of games, but back then Taylor
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  Speaker 2: were starters, and so you know, they left because of
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  Speaker 2: their eligibility. I'm not honestly one hundred percent sure if
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  Speaker 2: a five year rule, if they actually could have stayed.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so for Taylor, but maybe for Becca.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, they're gone, and in the world of transfer portal,
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking, you know, another nice little roster bump and
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  Speaker 2: roster clip. Nope, second year in a row for Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: no one transferred out and we had no one transfer in.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not to be unexpected obviously a smaller roster size.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had the number one recruiting class I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: three years in a row. One of those years was
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  Speaker 2: like arguably one of the best recruiting classes ever where
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  Speaker 2: we had.
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  Speaker 3: Correct me if I'm wrong or if you remember, but.
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  Speaker 2: It was like we had the number one, number two,
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  Speaker 2: number three, number four, number six player in the class.
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  Speaker 4: There was something crazy I remember the year that it
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  Speaker 4: was one, two, three, seven ten.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what I'm thinking that, Yeah, and that was
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. So I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're just at the point where.
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  Speaker 3: Our talent.
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  Speaker 2: We could look elsewhere to get people who are looking
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  Speaker 2: to shift, but I don't want. I don't think people
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  Speaker 2: are looking to come here because they're not going to play,
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  Speaker 2: because we just have we have young talent. And I
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  Speaker 2: would say.
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  Speaker 4: Is a portal like, obviously it's a thing, But is
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  Speaker 4: it as active in volleyball as it is for basketball
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  Speaker 4: and football?
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  Speaker 3: I would not say as much. Well, no, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: say as much.
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  Speaker 2: For basketball as much as basketball football. It's tougher to
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  Speaker 2: compare because the roster sizes are so different. But I
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  Speaker 2: do think part of that's already because the talent is
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  Speaker 2: not condensed. But you know, you're you're twenty five teams.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot more that I would say the the
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  Speaker 2: the landscape's more stable than basketball anyways. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: less coaches, get longer runs. You know, there's not as
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  Speaker 2: much a coach here for one year. I'm moving here
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  Speaker 2: for another year because schools just don't care as much
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  Speaker 2: about volleyball so there's less money in it too, whereas basketball,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're getting big fat checks thrown around.
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  Speaker 3: That's my theory. I don't know that for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, I will say that the popularity of volleyball and
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  Speaker 2: sports in general, and I l I mean, it has
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  Speaker 2: impacted volleyball.
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  Speaker 3: Just look at the last couple of years of viewership.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of been crazy. But we were
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  Speaker 3: I think we're the only you know, like.
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  Speaker 2: Power five volleyball school to have no transfers in or
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  Speaker 2: out for two years in a row, which is crazy
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  Speaker 2: because we could I mean call it arrogance, but I
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  Speaker 2: do think, you know, if we wanted to get someone,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think there's but enough money behind volleyball Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there's enough of a you know, prestige
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  Speaker 2: with the brand that you know, volleyball players want to
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  Speaker 2: play here, so we could go out and get people
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  Speaker 2: if we wanted them, But we have decided that we
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  Speaker 2: don't want them. So yeah, that's kind of where what
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  Speaker 2: the off season was, where we're at from last year,
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we really lost two starters and they
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  Speaker 2: were you know, Becca and Taylor were very important.
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  Speaker 3: But towards the end of last year.
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  Speaker 2: You can kind of see that, you know, because Becca
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  Speaker 2: was a mid blocker and Manaya who betcha.
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  Speaker 3: Who's who we're going to talk about in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: She was kind of starting to play a little bit
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 2: We were running to the point where it's like, man,
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  Speaker 2: we can't have three blockers on the court, but we
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  Speaker 2: have three people who should be on the court, And
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  Speaker 2: so we kind of played around a little bit last
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  Speaker 2: year effecta gone, I do. I do still think we
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  Speaker 2: have three good blockers, but it's it's it's a hole
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  Speaker 2: that week of build because we're that we're that good
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  Speaker 2: returning players, key returning players. I could say we have
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  Speaker 2: four seniors, three of which who were semi finalists for
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  Speaker 2: Volleyball Player of the Year last year, Berg and Riley
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  Speaker 2: who won, Harper, Murray, Andy Jackson, Lady Chobuer. Four seniors
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  Speaker 2: Junior Skuyler, Pierce, Olivia Match, Terry Siegler, Terry lie Back,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Hunter, Campbell, Flynn, Kennon, Cogo, Virginia, Virginia Adriano, and
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  Speaker 2: I bet she kind of that's you know, for the
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  Speaker 2: most part of the people the names you heard, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Virginia, she had she kind of had a
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  Speaker 2: slow start last year. She was the freshman from Italy.
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  Speaker 2: By the end of the year she was getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of playing time. She looked really good in the
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  Speaker 2: Red and White scrimmage. But I don't know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know which to take away from the Rando White Scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: And I should say, look, I listened to it on
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  Speaker 2: the radio and they currently don't have Pick ten. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have TV right now because YouTube TV is too
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  Speaker 2: expensive to keep during during the off season.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm gonna be honest, Yeah, they.
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  Speaker 1: Keep raising their prices. I guess I guess might as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably the most popular streaming platform right now.
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  Speaker 5: So and your booked A love that first it was
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  Speaker 5: twenty five dollars a month. You know, Okay, I'm really
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  Speaker 5: doing Fox one attempt Master game and if it's ondio
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  Speaker 5: to go to a bar.
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  Speaker 2: H. But like I said, we all players and.
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  Speaker 3: More time for I know what we're gonna do with
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  Speaker 3: our friends.
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  Speaker 2: Typically, really freshmen get in and play just we be talented,
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  Speaker 2: so they are, like you know, three of the top
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  Speaker 2: ten recruits in the nation probably get in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in some of those games where maybe maybe some
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  Speaker 2: will get home have like the flu.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll be up big.
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  Speaker 2: And then but.
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  Speaker 6: For the most part, it's gonna be our four seniors
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  Speaker 6: and then I am Virginia are gonna be the six
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  Speaker 6: spaces you probably see the most.
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  Speaker 3: And they were really like, they're really freaking good.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we went thirty three and oh last
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  Speaker 2: year before running into just just the counter that after
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Texas A and M won the sweet sixteen match.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is this team is not the
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  Speaker 2: team like they were just big and fast and for
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  Speaker 2: what we could have been them obviously be lost in
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  Speaker 2: five and they want the whole thing, and it makes
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  Speaker 2: me sick, especially with the whole trev Alberts of it all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm clearly over it. But I think we're we can
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  Speaker 2: beat anyone in the country and so and we know
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  Speaker 2: that they know that the senior class is really freaking
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  Speaker 2: good and they haven't won a championship, which is surprising.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Andy Jackson, Harper, Murray Burke and Riley are
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  Speaker 2: just three killers. And so the expectation this year is
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  Speaker 2: national championship. I'm not gonna say bust because people of
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  Speaker 2: much more patience with volleyball, just because I guess I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea why, but.
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  Speaker 3: The expectation is championship. I'm assuming you would agree with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I actually pulled the odds up and we are plus
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  Speaker 4: two hundred to win the national title, which means you
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  Speaker 4: put ten bucks down, you're winning twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's not very much.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we're minus it was minus two sixty
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  Speaker 4: to make the final four, which is which is I
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  Speaker 4: mean putting twenty bucks down, you're winning like ten so
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  Speaker 4: or ten bucks, you're winning like five bucks, So it's
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  Speaker 4: it's yeah, I mean we're we're definitely the hav A
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  Speaker 4: favorite to win win it all this year again with
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  Speaker 4: everything that you said and.
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  Speaker 1: The people that we returned, not value or I'm putting
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  Speaker 1: my money.
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  Speaker 3: Up, but no, that is a yeah, that's rough final four.
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  Speaker 3: This year's in San.
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  Speaker 2: Antonio, so not an easy drive and like last year unfortunately, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, preseason number one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you listen to any interview with the ladies
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  Speaker 2: and it's you know, hey, we're not we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be hung up on last year, but we know
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  Speaker 2: that the pressure is there and you know, we're talented
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  Speaker 2: group and we we should win like it would be
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  Speaker 2: so disappointed for this group to make it through four years,
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  Speaker 2: which again I don't know what the five year thing
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  Speaker 2: is gonna do, Like can all four because I think
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  Speaker 2: all four of these our four seniors also started as
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  Speaker 2: freshman or got playing type of like, but there's five
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  Speaker 2: years of eligibility, So it's like, did I stick around
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  Speaker 2: another because like my gut says, they're making more money
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  Speaker 2: playing than Nebraska than they're going to make as a
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  Speaker 2: pro volleyball player.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what that comparison is. What I
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  Speaker 4: think you hear the line, pressure is a privilege a lot,
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  Speaker 4: and when it comes down to a team like this,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, has so much talent, there's many ways
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  Speaker 4: to go about it. As a coach and a program.
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  Speaker 4: You can you can own it and or you can
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  Speaker 4: make it the elephant in the room and try not
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  Speaker 4: talk about it. I mean, I think there's several approaches
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  Speaker 4: how to go about that. And like you said, I
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  Speaker 4: think this is obviously a very talented group that that
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  Speaker 4: have been favorites to win it in several years, hasn't
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  Speaker 4: hasn't done it yet.
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  Speaker 2: So nope, I agree, And so yeah, we're entering your
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  Speaker 2: two Danny Kelly's approach, which is shockingly similar to John Cook.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe it or not, I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: her difference is she probably has a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: of an aggressive, my incid on offense, where speed and
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  Speaker 2: power is a little more important than maybe John had emphasized.
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  Speaker 3: And then but I'm not it's not rocket science. You
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  Speaker 3: know what.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be fast, and we want to we
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  Speaker 2: want to be efficient. We led the nation with hitting
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  Speaker 2: percentage last year. I suspect we'll be up there and
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  Speaker 2: towards the top again this year. We're gonna have fast tempo.
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  Speaker 3: We have.
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  Speaker 2: Great middles, so I expect, you know, Andy Jackson and
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  Speaker 2: Mania to have another great, great season offensively in the
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  Speaker 2: middle outside hittering, you know, Harper is still there. I
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  Speaker 2: think we're gonna be fine. And then Bergen setting the
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  Speaker 2: setting the scene for everyone is great. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's basically what John Cook has been running
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  Speaker 2: for the last twenty years, but just just slimp sight
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  Speaker 2: tweaks with a little more ice on the speed and
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  Speaker 2: you're still trying to be super efficient. I think we're
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  Speaker 2: going to succeed in all of that. I suspect we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a pretty good year. Looking at the schedule
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  Speaker 2: this year not quite as ferent motive as some of
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  Speaker 2: our others schedules in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Some unique.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we have the game at Wrigley Field this year,
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  Speaker 2: we have the tournament at a T Mobile Arena in
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Toll play number two Texas. So that's definitely
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  Speaker 2: our toughest challenge of the year is Texas.
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  Speaker 3: And then that'll be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and we played at at and T Stadium. Forgot
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  Speaker 2: to mention that. So I mean our toughest, not our
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  Speaker 2: toughest games, but we have some some tough neutral site games.
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  Speaker 2: Not that that really impacts Nebraska volleyball fans too much,
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  Speaker 2: but and we've done that in the past, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just good that.
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  Speaker 3: That's we're there.
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  Speaker 2: We're at that point in the program where you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: we don't have cupcakes for a non con It's no
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: we're playing the number two team in the country. We're
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  Speaker 2: playing number seventeen Florida. We're playing the expectation is we
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  Speaker 2: want to be playing real teams right off the bat,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously it's a little bit different. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: can these games, it's not they won't sink our season.
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  Speaker 2: By any means, the.
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  Speaker 1: Game that I'm most excited for is the Creating Game
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  Speaker 1: at home.
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  Speaker 3: Creating Game at home.
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  Speaker 4: The hour before is the John Rothstein, I know, the
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  Speaker 4: Happy hour, five happy hours.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why I know.
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  Speaker 2: Did you sign up for the Volleyball Lottery regular season
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  Speaker 2: ticket lottery?
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  Speaker 1: I did not know.
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  Speaker 2: I need to check my emails, so they're gonna last
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday everyone, But you can buy two tickets to
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  Speaker 2: a regular season game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that includes the Creating Game.
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  Speaker 2: But but yeah, like I said, we play number two
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  Speaker 2: Texas and neutral site.
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  Speaker 3: We play Missouri at regular field outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing number seventeen Florida, and I don't and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's a tournament at at and T Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: so I think we only play them but.
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  Speaker 3: At Jerry's World.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean those are big, big venue is in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of bodies, so I think those are good.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, Number thirteen creating at home, we
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  Speaker 2: play North Carolina at home, and then they're number nineteen
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  Speaker 2: and then you enter Big Ten play, which obviously the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten is always.
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  Speaker 3: A really good volleyball conference.
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  Speaker 2: I would say our toughest stretch we play at pen
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  Speaker 2: number ten Penn State, and then we play at Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: and then we play at number sixteen Indiana, and then
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  Speaker 2: we come home and play number six Wisconsin. That's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty tough four game stretch where you have four road games,
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  Speaker 2: two on the East Coast, and then come home and
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  Speaker 2: play you know, i'd say, our biggest rival. And then
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  Speaker 2: outside of that, you know, we play Oregon, who's preseason
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  Speaker 2: ranked in Minnesota. And then the difference this year is
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  Speaker 2: so our Big Ten schedule is actually a little bit
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  Speaker 2: shorter than typical because this is the first year we're
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: doing a Big Ten tournament, which I was thinking about
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: last night.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't.
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  Speaker 2: I've never really thought of it that much in respect
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: for basketball, but it I feel like the Big Ten
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: tournament should be a regular season.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I need a tournament. Same with
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: same for basketball. I don't. I'm not rewarding the regular
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: season at all.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there's the double buys, but I don't
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: know that the the n c A.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Tournament right for basketball when your conference you get in.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Is it similar for volleyball?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Uh, honestly, I don't know. I didn't look.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I don't really is maybe like like, if you win.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Your conference, I think you are in because I think
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that's how you Uno got in whatever how many years
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: ago when Uno and Creating and Abrasketball got in. I
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: believe that's the case. So Big Ten tournament wraps up
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: right before Thanksgiving, and I suspect us to do pretty
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: well in the Big Ten. I said, I know number
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: nine Peru. We had a couple of top ten matchups.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Obviously this the rankings will shift as the year goes on.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: We you know, good chance we lose Texas. But last year,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember how last year kicked off.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: We played like it was like number two, number six,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and number ten. Three games in a row. We killed
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: them all. We slaughtered on my animals.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: So it's one of those things.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Where I'm we're not Alabama level because we haven't won it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You know, we're not.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: We're not taking home the ring every year, but gosh,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: we're freaking dominant. We just haven't gotten it done in
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the championship or semi finals. And this has gotta be
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: like we're so talented and everyone's been here for two
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you know, like there there isn't like, oh, we have
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: to get this guy incorporated.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: We don't know how, We don't know how Virginia is
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: gonna play.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: And because last year Virginia had a slow start, by
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: the end of the year she was killing it. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: you know, Mania like again last year we kind of
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: discovered o Maniah's good. How are we gonna fit her
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: in here when we have three blockers with Becca and
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Andy playing and I just don't foresee us having those problems.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: We ran back basically the same coaching staff. You know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: jalender Is is still there, Kelly, Kelly Hunter, Brendan Hager.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a good crew. Our volleyboll program
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: is just stellar and we've got it figured out. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Danny Bestman Kelly is a good coach. You know, she's
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: definitely John Cooks, you know what's the word. I'm looking
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: for students, and we just know how to do it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: We just haven't I will. That's I think that's what
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: got us last year.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Was with our ability to respond to a team that
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: was bigger and more athletic than us. We're super efficient
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: and we're big and we're athletic, and we just don't
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: run into teams that are bigger and faster than us.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That often, and it felt like we kind of cut
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: ourselves on our heels. Yeah, and I guess I know
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that the fluid was going around the locker room last year.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I think Bergen was like a game day decision, you know.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So sure we had some things against us, like gosh,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: we just need to be And that's again, that's what
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Danny Best mckilly likes is big, fast, efficient games, you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: forcing the opponents into the middle to our big blockers.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And I think we can do it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: We can do exactly what we want and I want
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to see a translate to a championship.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: It should.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: We went thirty three and one. I suspect we'll go
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a similar I will probably. I think we'll lose. We're
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: not gonna go undefeated in the regular season, like Texas
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: is tough, but.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: It's not gonna be as good as last year during
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: the LEGA season.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: But I think that's okay because I think it's okay
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to have a couple of bumps along the way.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: That's my preview. We're gonna be really freaking good.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: If you want to buy your Final four tickets now,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I honestly I'd be fine with it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Like you're probably gonna save money. If we do make it,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: you're gonna save money doing it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Now versus creating until book books the hotel, you can
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: always cancel the hotel.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So that's that's the outlook. It's looking good.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I suggest you watch a lot of games. It's the
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: most successful program we have in Nebraska.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: We'll see how football goes and and maybe that'll get
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: me watching a few more volleyball games. But I yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'll, like I said, I I'll turn them on.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: I'll have them on a BA they play, and I'm
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: not doing anything. I'm just not scheduling my.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: My evening, which is totally fair.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Which I do for basketball and football.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, the nice thing about volleyball, you know
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: it's on Thursday nights or Tuesdays or when you know
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: it's during the week during the football season.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh and it's a it's a tight hour
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: and a half, two hours.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: It's okay, four games an hour.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no kidding. We we sweep everyone. That's what
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: it was like. Like last year was crazy. I'm trying
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: to remember what game it was. I was. I was
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: early in or I was like, oh man, I want
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to get home and watch. It was a big game.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I don't remember which one it was. I want to
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: get home watch a big game. And I got home.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: It was over in like an hour, and I was like,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: what the heck?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: This is supposed to be like a slug Festah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we're really good. Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Last year we started, we played number three pit we
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: won three one. We played number six Stanford, we won
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: three to zero. We played number seven Kentucky won three
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: to two. That was three of our first four games,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and I don't even know. I think these rankings are
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: probably based off of that was within four days. Four
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: days we played three top ten teams that we beat
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: them all, with Kentucky giving us a little problems, but
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Kentucky was a favorite to win an actual title. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: who are just really freaking good? Good for us? I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: don't know how much money we're funneling into our program.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: They reseeded and they did reset, right, you know, our
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: season ticket holder, So maybe there'll be a little more
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: juice in the arena. All right, that's it. So I
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: got I like it, was there any Husker football news
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that we needed to shed light on.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about it next week.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I think we have a couple more weeks here before
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I gotsha, they felt the seasons later.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: It is later, it is later.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it just feels like we're dragging alonger. I keep
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: wanting to say, seasons back next week. I guess week
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: zero is next week here. I'm for college football, but
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: we are creeping closer every day.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: The Celloud streak is done this year.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next week.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: The family pack four tickets plus forty dollars concession vouchers
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: for one hundred and sixty bucks.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: We're not getting into this now because we're talking about
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: that next week.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Wait, buckets, it's crazy, all right, Go big read gbr.
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