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Episode 5.53: Nebrasketball in Transfer Portal PLUS Masters Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Glory podcast. We're Back Hunters are Perdicki, Austin Rose, Dakota Free Tag,
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getting close to wrapping up season five podcast, Dak's first year of the
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podcast. Austin, it's been five years. I have really no way.
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Oh yeah, we started the old Scott Frost. Yeah, you're right rough
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days. You were so overwhelmed by the reaction to Game one of the Frost
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era. You're like, I have to start a podcast. Yeah, that's
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that's really what it was. I needed to get all my thoughts out.
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Then luckily we got rid of it when we did, because it was about
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ready to get me losing interest, But nope, we got rule. We
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had to bring on Dak because we needed some life is a party? What
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grade would you give me? Eight month? Oh yeah, yeah, that's
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what I mean. All your all your great takes of Nebraska football and basketball,
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and I think if we go back and listen to the first couple episodes
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this season, I think we're almost successful in converting him to a full Husker
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fan. At this point, he is very informed. I can't see your
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statement. The other night, I had a couple of drinks to me and
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I did admit I'm a Husker fan. But that's that's not my real talk
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right there. Dude, You know what they say, drunk you is just
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the honest to you. I don't know about Dak. He drunk Dak is
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just another human. Believe it at that. Well, since the last time
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we've talked, I think the biggest thing we got to talk about, guys,
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most important is our boy Case Tominaga. He's not done yet or wasn't
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done yet. Maybe he is now three point champion in Division one college basketball
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and beat the girl from Indiana. It was a It was a cool I
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mean, you know, as cool as a three point shooting contest before a
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final four that your team's not in and there's really not anyone you carry that
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wins. I mean, it's cool. It was nice that he won on
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the last bucket, but he kind of cut it close. No, they
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should have do an NBA style and had the full money racks or you can
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put it where you want it, no money. Come on, n c
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A, what are we doing that? That takes some nuts? Did that
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when you turn around after a three because if you miss your clown forever like
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a fool? Well he did. He did it on the fourth rack.
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And and did the same thing, but nobody really noticed that or remembers that,
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because he did it again on the last rack and grilled it. It
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was fun. Good for him, he did it. We won something.
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He's applying for. What was he applying for? Some sort of He's trying
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to get his an additional waiver, but I don't remember what his excuse was.
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They just need to give him one for that foreign language barrier. I'm
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pretty sure I think that's where we go. You guys, thank you for
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all those tips I gave him. Yeah, you're you guys are both lefties.
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It's probably where he got the form. Yep uh. I did already
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buy a Japan Comanauga Jersey or the upcoming Olympics they're in. It's gonna be
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able to last late July early August. The Olympics are around, gonna be
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the biggest japan fan. It'll be tough if they get matched up with the
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USA. I don't know. They're not in ours. I know that,
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but a state will be playing and they did qualify last fall. So go
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Japan twenty four Summer Olympics. Let's see. Okay, do you guys think
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Tomlin is any shot in the NBA. I think with the with the NBA
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is played a day, I think he does. No. I wish you
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were right, but he off the bench. It's not it's not even that
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he's like a liability on defense. He just like wouldn't be a defender out
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there compared to those guys at all. Like you want to talk about how
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st Curry and some of those smaller guards get exposed defensively. I mean,
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he's take out another four or five inches off of that. I mean it's
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it's tough. Yeah, no way, Yeah, I can't even imagine him
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even remotely being in the NBA. They didn't draw, So I got the
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pools here, Japan, Germany and France our group B perfect see in the
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finals. So Germany won the Feeble World Cup or lost the Feeble World Cup
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Championship, I don't remember. But Germany's good and France has got wemby take
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it to them. They're getting Germany is too big, France is too big.
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All we want to see. We got Case, we got ruly Achimura,
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We got some pieces there on Japan's team. One other piece. Gosh,
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what was that other guy's name? He was supposed to be good in
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the NBA, and then he did want one want to not be you got
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me? I don't know anybody else. Those are the only three I got
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you. Ton All right off of Japan and real quick, what I thought
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about something? So Francis Gobet and Wimby. Yeah, oh good god.
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No one's gonna score on that team. You're putting a future on him.
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Yeah, well, no one is gonna score. I believe Joel Embiid could
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have played for them, but he chose to play for the us A.
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It could have been a Wemby man that would have been. That would have
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been quite the front court. Dak's throwing his money on that tonight. We
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all know it. That is a lock. Uh. Moving on transfer portal
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basketball, A lot has gone on since the end of the year. A
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lot of guys have left, but not necessarily guys that have played too many
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minutes. Dak accurately called out the CJ. Wilcher leaving and Juan Gary staying
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and masked. While he hasn't come out and said anything is staying. Bryce
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Williams with Gary posted a social media video announcing they're staying. What a world
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we've come to where you have to announce to the public that you are staying
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at the school or right, you're not transferring. It wasn't even like we're
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interested. We're not transferring. Uh. Blaze Kada who played two years ago
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didn't play this year. He's gone, JaMarcus Lawrence maybe a bit of surprise,
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he's gone. A tar Joke who played some minutes at posts for is
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very limited. He's gone. Romel Lloyd who didn't really play it all,
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gone, Bookie Coleman. No, he graduated, m gone, he's not
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coming back. And Dak's case they coming back. I haven't talked to him
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recently, but last I heard no, okay, I mean me know,
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but I haven't. I haven't heard hit you up. And then we got
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a guy forget his name already from North Dakota State that assigned a forward for
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man. Uh looks like he can. He's more of a banger type physical
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dude. But I think we'll fit in well into Hoyburg's offense. And then
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a couple of guys that we are I'm gonna lookout for hopefully get transfer in.
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But what what Austin, what are your thoughts on the portals so far?
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I know there's been a lot of reaction to what's gone on with Nebraska
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basketball. Marcus Lawrence and Ramel Lloyd are really the only two names that you're
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like, I kind of like to see them stick around. Not necessarily because
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Lloyd's production, but you kind of he was one of the higher touted recruits
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last year. We don't we never really got to see it. And then
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obviously JaMarcus Lawrence actually contributed on the court and it was really important at times
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for our offense, and you know, losing case, you worry about how
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you're going to replace that offense. We just need a point guard. You
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really just need a good point guard out of the portal. So I'm hoping
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we pull like a true point guard out of the portal as opposed. I
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mean, we're gonna get plenty of big men. I know, Frank Fiddler,
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what's the guy out of you? Freaky Fiddler? Ye Middler, great
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name come here. That would be kind of cool. But yeah, a
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point guard would be great. But I would say to that, I'm not
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too upset about any of the departures, Dak. Any reason to be nervous.
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If you're a Husker basketball fan like you are, No, you Freddy,
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you need Freddy Fieldler do you think there's any shot of Chuckie Heppern coming
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here? No, I don't think so anymore. I think that was hopeful,
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but I don't think so. You get Jamian McCollum from Oklahoma, they've
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lost their three best players. Yeah, the players as good as our Romel
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Lloyd. No, honestly let him go. See you Well, Okay,
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you bring up an interesting point and Dac didn't even know he was saying this.
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But with the transfer portal now, I think the initial reaction for a
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lot of Husker fans is what is going on? You look at a ROSSI
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from last year. You see god transfer transfer, transfer, graduate, graduate
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graduate. We got seven guys, and I think there's panic of what's happened.
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But I think what Dak just said a lot of schools, it's happening
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to them too, and it's not a product or result of anything that's going
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on in Nebraska basketball. Obviously, we are at an all time high for
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momentum this year, coming off of this year's tournament birth, so oh,
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schools like Oklahoma, other Power five schools, guys are going to just enter
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the portal and see what they can get from an nil deal and what schools
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are they're attracted to, and I think Nebraska is very attractive for a lot
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of these transfers. And so to that point, I honestly think you can
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flip it and look at these guys that have left. We didn't lose any
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starters. Really, JaMarcus Lawrence and Wilship probably had a good chance to start
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next year if they would have stayed around. But honestly, we're probably targeting
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guys and they know that Hoiberg and staff are going to be able to target
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and potentially get guys that are a better quality than what they are, especially
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some of those lower guys like that. They're probably looking at it and going,
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all right, we're really not going to play next year. This program
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is on the rise. We didn't play this year, and the portal's so
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wild, like we're probably going to get passed that by the next guy that
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comes into And not to mention, what's Hoyberg been known for his entire time
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he's coaching in college has been the transfer portal, and we seem to have
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a brand new team every single year at Nebraska. So I think it's a
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positive, honestly, instead of a negative or a panic mode that a lot
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of Husker fans are going into and Austin. To your point, I think
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you've hit on and what we need a point guard I think is very very
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high. You know, Aaron Yulis may or may not get approved to play
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this upcoming year. And I think the other piece that two pieces that we
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need. We need a new knockdown shooter mm hmm. We spent so many
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years without that. We finally had Case and then I mean wiltshair was pretty
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dan close to that as well. And then we need another banger for man
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like Alt that just goes gets a bunch of rebounds. There's a lot of
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the hustle work on the defensive vent and I think that guy from North Dakota
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State might be one that could fill that piece there. But I think that's
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what the staff is targeting and looking at. Here. While it's very early
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in the portal, it seems like we're off to a decent start. Yeah,
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feel good. I mean I had the perfect I have the perfect guy
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for you, Avila from Indiana State. I'd take him prem Amduel. Every
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the fan base would love him. And he's actual pretty good. He actually
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is pretty good. Yeah, you maybe could even start over with mast Dak.
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Another guy similar to that that I saw, uh visited here. I
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think it was this week. Is that guy from Rutgers Remember the Goggley guy?
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Oh yeah, he visited. He's a wasn't he like a five star
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crew? Yeah? Shoot the ship out of it? Well? So was
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what's what's the guy you had goggles a couple of years ago? Brighten Bach?
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Yes, it wasn't he like a four stars? Was making ease?
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Yeah? Yeah? So yeah. I think overall up to a decent start.
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It's fun to have momentum going into a basketball offseason that we have this
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year. Got feeling right now or better or worse the next year. I'm
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gonna go back to my old football beliefs. We gotta I gotta prove they
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gotta prove it that they're going to be better. I don't think. I
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hope we don't take a fall off from this year, but I don't think
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we're gonna be a top five Big ten team going into next year projected.
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I don't think that's going to be the case. I think higher than thirteen
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or twelve, the higher than thirteen will probably be around that nine eight,
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nine ten mark. I think so. I think expectations are probably gonna be
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right around there, which you want to look at it that way, would
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be worse than this year as far as finishing in the Big Ten. But
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I think the team has the momentum and the pieces to be able to do
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it. It's up to the staff and in the program here to build upon
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what we accomplished this year. I think you're ranked you ranked thirty fourth and
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Andy Kat's way too early rankings there. We go got to get in that
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top twenty five like our baseball team did. Baseball team crack top twenty five.
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I've watched a few games this year. I watched this in a barn
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burner with Kansas last night and lost that with a fun game to watch it.
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There's a lot of runs, but team's doing well. I think our
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strength to schedule and our RPIs very much up there with the rest of the
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country, and we have to keep winning Big ten games and stay, you
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know, one of the top two or three teams I think in the Big
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Ten to hopefully get into the postseason tournament and maybe even host of regional I
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saw a couple of like early bracketology things for the baseball team. I'm sitting
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the top in that top sixteen hosted a regional, which would be kind of
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cool. That would be cool. It'd be cooler to make the World Series
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someday, So yeah, someday, Dak, how'se ou baseball? Give us
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a quick synopsis? They beat Nebraska, they did, that's my recap.
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That was game one or two of the year. What's happened since then?
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Don't know, as you have no idea. I don't really pay attention to
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college baseball, to be honest, I don't at all tell tell the regionals.
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I like, I like when it gets to that, but I don't.
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Yeah, oh, fake atention of that game one minus one and a
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half lost that? Yep, you did, I remember you texted me on
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that. Before we get away from basketball. Overall tournament thoughts, I just
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want to hear what you guys thought of the tournament, yukon taking care of
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business again and taking down Purdue, and feel free to throw some women's talk
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in there. Yeah, Ultimately, if Purdue would have won, I would
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have said that we should have been the national title champions because we beat Purdue
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and we should Ultimately, I think it was pretty good. I felt the
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games like there wasn't a ton of blowouts after the first after the second round,
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it it was actually pretty tight. The final four teams I think were
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the right teams. It was nice to have a bunch of number one seeds
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in there actually competing. And I really liked the size how it was just
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a bunch of big guys just bashing up against each other. I thought that
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was a lot of fun. I loved it. Yep, I'm really glad
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that Caitlin Clark lost. Although I respect her talent, I still hate Iowa
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and I'm glad that they lost. In true Husker fan fashion, right there
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a man god against her. Yes, I was watching that Yukon game when
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they did that. Then they called that spell on the screen. I just
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couldn't believe it. I was like, oh God. Anyways, but yeah,
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it was a good tournament. I thought the championship it would have been
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nice if it was a closer game. But you come to the better team
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with the better coach. Zach Edie was awesome. Yeah, I didn't realize
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because I was watching the game at a at a bar, but didn't realize
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he had thirty seven and what at fifteen or whatever was like I didn't but
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then they still got their ass kicked. I kept seeing the stat that Purdue
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was not even attempting three point shots, let alone making them. And I
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wasn't watching close enough to really see what Yukon was doing defensively, but clearly
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they had the right game plan to take it to Purdue. I would say
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it was more of they were able. They felt comfortable just putting one one
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b one versus e Edie with klingon, and so they just and they're they're
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really good defensively when you kind of saying whether you're comfortable and let them score
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thirty seven, But I mean that thirty seven clearly still wasn't enough. So
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they basically just clamped down on the three point shots, which is what Produce
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lived and died by this year for the most part. So but they weren't
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shooting them, and they because they just they didn't get any space. Yeah,
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I mean, yeah, you're right. Think about why Purdue got space.
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It all was because of Edie. I mean that usually got double teams
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or there would be a weird rotation, you know, kink when the ball
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would flow through them and they kind of have to stop and think about double
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teaming. And then they usually opened up a guy and there's like, no
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Klingon's gonna try to lock the guy down. And I mean, think about
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how Nebraska garden we in Northwestern I guess two teams that did beat Purdue earlier
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in the year, like we just full out on the catch had to double
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immediately because we didn't have a guy like cleaning inside to potentially guard one one.
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And again it's not like he did a phenomenal job. Heed he still
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scored, but by over doubling and doing that it also worked. So I
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was anticipating maybe some of that from Yukon, but they actually want the opposite
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and said, nope, Edie, do what you want. We're gonna make
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you take tough shots the whole night. You're gonna make some, but we're
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not giving the booth the looks. They they only double team Edie, I
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think two or three times mm hmm. And and when they got they got
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cleaning and foul trouble early, and I was like, well, this could
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really hurt him. But that guy, I don't know what his name is,
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off the bench, he came and held his own too, So that's
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what the difference was. Yeah, over overall, I guess on the tournament,
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I've heard a lot of people complaining that it wasn't as an exciting tournament.
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There weren't as many upsets. You were Cinderella's I guess. I mean
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compared to prior years. We've been spoiled in prior years with a lot of
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this and all the one, two and three seats advanced. This year,
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there were a couple of upsets. It was neat seeing Oakland basically get coach
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cal pushed out to see. Yeah, so it was. It was.
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It was a good tournament, another good March Madness. It was a lot
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more fun this year with Nebraska, and that's all I got to say leading
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up to it. It just made made it that much more entertaining for us,
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not even from a picking standpoint, but just that we were in the
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tournament. We got to participate this year, we did any excitement and what
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if and how are we seated? And oh and not that this is really
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relevant, but shout out to the Indiana State and Seaton Hall is that who
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play yet who played for the n i T the n i T tournament.
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And we're only speaking to this because Nebraska is usually more around that level of
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play like usually when these teams that get snubbed, they come out and just
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lay eggs in the n i T because they're pissed and they don't want to
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be there, or you're like Oklahoma and just deny to even play in it,
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which is dumb. Okay, okay. So it was neat to see
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two teams that still came out with fire under themselves and take take it all
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the way to the end and have a good competit. It was a fun
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competitive championship in it game as well. Defend your sooners for declining the n
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I T please deact please, Well, I was happy. I didn't want
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to watch them anymore. I I do think it was a pussy move declining
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go play. Hey man, I think they knew. I think they already
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know. The players that left thirty kind of told them before that they were
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leaving, so they probably didn't want to. They probably gonna play either way,
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and without those three they might not score a point. So I don't
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want to watch them anymore. But women's championship game between Iowa and South Carolina
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had more viewers for the first time ever than the men's. It was one
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of the highest rated sporting events or viewership outside of football, and I can't
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remember there was one other thing, but that obviously is because of Caitlin Clark
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and not just her, but what South Carolina was able to do with their
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team. Juju from USC who made it to the final four, Angel Reese
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from LSU, a lot of just names and from Stanford pages, yes,
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Buchers. All of these names and players have made women's college basketball something that
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America wants to watch. I mean I for that semi final game. I
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was on a work trip in South Carolina and at a random country club sports
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restaurant slash bar, and that place was like going nuts for Caitlin Clark against
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LSU on that Monday night, like it was. It was crazy. And
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there's there's no Iowa fans there at all. So it's pretty amazing and neat
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to see what they've done for women's sports. Here's my question for you guys.
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Will it sustain? No? I haven't heard anyone talking about how excited
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they are to watch women's basketball next year. How about that? Juji Watkins
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would have to be would have to be the one that carries it. I
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don't think it'll be as as mostly hyped up, but I think it'll sustain
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a little bit. It will sustain a little bit, like it's not going
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to return back to what it was, but it's definitely dipping back down.
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And and that's women's college basketball now. Will it just follow Caitlyn Clark to
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the WNBA. No, No one's watching w NBA games, and she won't
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do as well in the w NBA. I feel very confident about that.
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For the first three games, yes, and then talk to talk to everyone
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watching it. After that, no one cares about a fourteen team league that
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I don't know when is their championship? Isn't it in October? They starting?
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They Yeah, they starts, it's later, it's later. Really like
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they draft in a week and then they start in a month or something like
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that until you get drafted next week. Yeah, they're the WNBA drafts in
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the next week or two. Yeah. Wow, and then they start I
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think May sixteenth. Yeah. I'm with you, guys, because you hear
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a lot about the women's sports right now and the push for it, the
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evolution of it. Obviously a lot of the Title nine conversation and equal pay
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and all of that that's been around for the last several years. In several
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different sports. I do think this obviously is helping everything, and I do
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think with WNBA, like salaries are going to have to get raised and there's
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going to just be a little more attention on it for a little while.
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But I also think, like you said, Austin, I don't know that
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Caitlin Clark's going to go in and she won't be able to do what she
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did in college to these grown women in the WNBA, and it'll be neat
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to see her play against that. And you know what, maybe I'll be
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wrong, maybe we're wrong, maybe she will just surprise everyone at that level.
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But I do think it's gonna fade off slowly. But I do think
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where it ends up again is higher than where I was. So I could
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be wrong because I could be undervaluing young like I watched the Final four game
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with Maddy's cousins who are the oldest one being twelve or thirteen, and then
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a ten year old boy who is just absolutely like all in, like he
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knew all the players on Iowa's team, all the players on Yukon's team,
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like he was invested. So I could be wrong. It could carry more
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than I thought. I bet the first game, first w NBA game that
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can't Clark plays will be the most watched ever. Oh that's sports. Yeah,
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I agree by a mile it will. And the impact that she has
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had on the youth all the way down to I mean kindergarteners to where they
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can remember, like it's going to be lasting. Well, there's a couple
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of girls, like even on our high school team that that just idolize her
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and and want to be her when they get older. So I do think
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they'll there will be that long standing effect that she has on girls. But
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actually, yeah, like you said, guys too, and just the greatness
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that we witnessed with the player like that in a league and just completely dominating.
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So not the greatest. I'm going to throw it out there. I
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have to have a championship, have to have one. That's another big debate.
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Yep. But is she I was gonna say she, for the sport
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of women's basketball, the most impactful of all the most impactful. Yeah,
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yes, by a mile. She's like I think Steph's the most impactful player
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of all time in the NBA, I think she's on that same level.
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Well, I'd say Michael's definitely more impactful than Steph, but I could.
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I definitely, yeah, Steph's up there, like Steph's not cracking my probably
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top five of greatest NBA players of all time, but if you talk about
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most impactfullys top three, I probably agree with that. I put yeah,
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I definitely agree with that statement. I mean, what Caitlin did for women's
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basketball, Tiger for golf. I mean just similar type of hype and attention
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to it. So it is Master's Week. So while we got some time,
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we got to talk about Masters. I also wanted to get to some
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spring practice Husker football. There's been a lot of news and stuff out there,
29:48
but we will be doing that. I'm here in the next couple of
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weeks as we get closer to the spring game on April twenty seventh. There's
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been a lot of good discussion quarterback battle going on between the three guys and
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Lincoln, so we will get to that here in our next episode. But
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we gotta talk Masters to his Master's Week. It's one of my favorite weeks.
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I love it. It's great, and there's been golf. I don't
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golf, but it always makes me be like, you know, maybe it's
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just gonna happen. Give me a quick twenty seconds of how your guys golf
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game is right now? Oh boy? Uh, and I could do a
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whole eighteen. You know it's only need one word awful. Yeah, it's
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pretty bad. Mine's awful. I don't golf regularly. It's basically just bachelor
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parties and scrambles, so it's uh, it's not well practiced. But every
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time the master will around is like, you know, maybe this is the
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year. Hit the range a couple of times, maybe go to a couple
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of classes. Never happens. But here's all I gotta say to any youngesals
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out there, if you haven't taken up golf, do it because it gets
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your way in a lot of opportunities. I think from a business standpoint,
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I'm finding that out. Like I've gotten something a couple of troops just because
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I golf, and it's been a good way to I guess network. And
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it's it's no joke when they say business meetings or discussions, We're gonna call
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them meetings, but like that's what people do. You get you go golf
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and you drink a couple of beers and you have fun while doing it.
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So I haven't been out much this year but I did get to play a
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course in South Carolina which is pretty neat, and did get to talk to
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Max Homa, which is pretty awesome. Okay, his wife is the hottest
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girl in the world, as the Part three contest. Yeah, wow,
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Dak, I think you think a lot of the wives of the golfers are
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the hottest women in the world. You haven't seen it, Well, they're
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stinking pots. Yes. Oh, here's here's one thing about the Masters.
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I might be the only person in world to say this. Now a favorite
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major British Open. Why. I just love the way they I love the
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link style courses like that. Why does that mean feel like you can plan
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because you don't hit it straight? Yes, and the ball rolls out so
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far I feel like I could actually play good there. No, don't even
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say that like I could. And plus is on nine am the final.
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It's awesome. Wake up watching done by noon, Dak. You gotta get
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the ball in the air for your ball to be able to roll and get
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it. I'm not golfing with anybody until I hit the range and figure out
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my swing. Who's gonna do that for you? I'm going myself because I
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don't want to be around people. So Masters twenty twenty four, Tiger is
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back in the field. Hopefully he's able to play the full four days and
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make make the cut on on Friday, Ny, your guys' favorites, sleepers,
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who you like? So if we're going based off, so let me
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read off the odds. Here. You got Scotty Scheffler clear front runner.
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Does anyone here think he's not gonna win it? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
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it Like Scotty is by far the safest person to pick to just play
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well. Like Scotty's making the cut, I thinks it odds to make the
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cutter like minus thirty five hundred, like he's going to win and yeah plus
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three twenty five that's like unheard of from winning a golf thurt. So,
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like, whether you think he's gonna win or not, Scotty is going to
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play well, and like he is the favorite and should be. And his
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putting is kind of coming around, which has been the thing that he's really
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sucked at. But his ball striking, he hits the ball off the tee.
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It's been like unbelievable the past couple of years. I read an article
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that compared him to Shack. He can basically do everything but free throws,
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and once he figures out those free throws, he would have been unstoppably never
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did that's his puddy. Can't put Dak. Who do you like to win
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it? Yeah? Just in general? Oh, my sleeper is Tiger at
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the odds. You got to put money on him at what is he plus
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forty five thousand or something? Oh, trust me, I already have Guys,
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there's not a shot that Tiger is winning the Skultar finishing it. He
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can that you can't. Yeah, well, Dak, I will clip it
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because I'm the one that puts this together. But he's not winning it.
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There's there's no shot. He knows his course like the back of his dying.
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I think he's got a little If he can stay good physically, I
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think he's got shot. That's the Fortunately, there's forty fifty other guys that
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also know this course like the back of their hand too, people who I'm
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excited. I'm excited for Jordan's speith. I think he's gonna win it.
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He always does really freaking well, and like like he just can't. He'll
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close major gaps, but he just can't get over the hump side that you're
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a pick Dak yep. Jordan Spieth is yep. I thought Tiger was he's
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my sleeper. Oh he's your sleeper, Austin, Who do you got?
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So? I probably I have skyt Scheffler winning it. I he just can't
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sleeper. I'm probably going tony now, Okay, I don't mind it.
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I here, guys, here showing you all my notes. Here, this
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is what I've been doing. So I listened to a lot of guys.
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I love Masters Week. I'm telling you, I've listened to like five or
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six podcasts, all the research and then it usually doesn't do anything for me
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betting wise, but soak it all in. Then I wore my own opinions
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based on what I've heard. So uh, and I guess what yours are
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gonna be sure, I'm gonna guess your favorite to win. You have John
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Ram running it back, and your sleeper is not even a sleeper. I
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actually I have Xander, Guys, I have Xander winning it. I he
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hasn't been talked about a whole lot by some of these podcasts. I think,
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I mean for his odds, I think you get a good price on
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him. Not much love for rom and Rory Scotti, as we talked about,
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clearly the favorite. I do like Adeci this week. I think he'll
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play well. You can't really count him as a sleeper. He's that's probably
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fair to high up there. A couple of guys I guess pull him sleepers
36:52
on my book. Here, Cam Young, I think he's gonna go under
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the radar. He hasn't been playing well this year, he blew up last
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year. But I think he's gonna play well, potentially a top twenty.
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And then I like him. I like him a lot. He's playing well
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right now, even a guy that's played played this course a lot. The
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guy that I really like down here that I think is going to be in
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the hunt and I'm hoping for Shane Lowry, and he has not putted very
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well recently either, but I think he can get hot with the putter and
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his ball striking has been really, really solid. And a lot of these
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guys that win this tournament, their games are just an all around very good
37:43
shape and you have to do everything well above average. You can't have one
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part of your game that's not working. So a couple of names there excited
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for tomorrow Best Thursday. One of the best Thursdays between this and March madness
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of the year. I think it's real wimpy. If anyone puts money on
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sky Scheffler, that's like putting money on oh, I don't even know who.
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I would say, not paying much. It's wimpy. Go go putting
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money on someone else. All right, we'll be back next couple of weeks.
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Husker football talk returns. Go back Red, You are raw, Go Tigert