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Episode 6.29: Questions and Answers · Return to Glory - Nebraska

• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Turn a glory podcast once again.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: It's raining. I'm not outside this time following the Huskers loss.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Just not many words.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Again, I will.
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: Say I texted you guys yesterday halfway through the third quarter,
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: so I don't want to talk about this team on Sunday. Yeah,
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: you still send me the text message of hey, what
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: are we doing the pod? So it was a little
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: disappointed you didn't take me more seriously.
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: But he said, yeah, did you say what team or
• 0:50
  Speaker 4: something like that?
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, real quick start. Worse than the Indian analysts
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: or not?
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: No, hmmm, no close, but no, we got absolutely punked
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: in the analysts. We still were in position to win
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: this or at least make it a tie game.
• 1:16
  Speaker 5: At the end of the game, you're on the track
• 1:18
  Speaker 5: to getting punked, but turned it around at the end.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: There were a few better moments in this game. I
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: guess it's how I would word it Indiana. There just
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: really was. But this was also a game that we
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: were favored to win by a touchdown versus favored to
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: lose by a touchdown.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: I just don't understand. I just don't get it. I
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: don't I don't know.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: You know, you try to rationalize and and and as
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: a fan reason with what happened and could be this
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: could be that, it is this, it is that I
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: just don't even have answers anymore as to what those
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: are as a program, And this goes back pre rule,
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: but now on a different level in real second year
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: you're kind of there too there as well with what
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: are the answers with this entire program?
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: And is it ever going to be fixed?
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: Like can it ever get back to when I say
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: fixed a championship type level program?
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: The answer to that is yes, maybe it's yes. If
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: Indiana can be a top ten team, we can also
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: at some point become a top ten team. Again, let's
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: not act like it's nebra like the location.
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: It can be No, Yah, I agree with you, but
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: I don't the word can. Yeah, I agree, it's never
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: zero percent. But as far as what what is the
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: hope to get there? It just has now seems so
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: much further away potentially. I know it's just one game,
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: but it just brings up so many more questions that
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: I don't I just don't have any explanation or answers
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: to anymore. As just as as a as a casual
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: fan watching those games, it just I mean sure or false?
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Are we at a better place right now this year
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: than we were last year at this time.
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, we have a quarterback that can be here for
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: four more years that we believe is good.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: That can Willie.
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: I think you will.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Do We want him?
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, man, you.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: You I'm not.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not siding with any of these I have opinions
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: and all these questions. I'm just asking because you have
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: all things that are going through Husker fans comments in mine,
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: I will say all things that I've heard.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: I was very upset, and then I went on Reddit
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: and read the post game Reddit post, and I feel
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: so much better about the program. After reading the people's
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: shitty takes on what to do next.
• 4:12
  Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, like okay, mother. Watching
• 4:19
  Speaker 6: the Viking game, I.
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  Speaker 5: Believe mister field goal the thirty yard off the post,
• 4:28
  Speaker 5: great dank yep. You know I thought I thought tweet
• 4:37
  Speaker 5: before I hopped on this, and it said, uh, name
• 4:41
  Speaker 5: one player that's improved from last year than the Harvard
• 4:44
  Speaker 5: and I I couldn't think of one.
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: I think this was the first game that we actually
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: had something to say about the offensive line. We haven't
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: about the offensive line all year. Really in this in
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: a negative way. And this is the first game where
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: I felt like our offensive line played poorly.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's okay, let's try to steer this somewhere because
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: we are. I My general thought here at the beginning
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: is just there's a lot I'll say it, people's hope
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: right now is a little bit getting ripped. I'm not
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: saying it's gone, but as a fan base right now,
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: and I'll say it again, I don't think our.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: Opinions matter.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: At all, Like it does not affect anything besides it's enjoyment,
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: entertainment for us. Now, I think that has be careful
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: with how I say this. I think it does as
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  Speaker 2: an entire culture or program have an over marching gloom
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: and doom that not that we bring upon it, but
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: that the program has. And the fans are trying to
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: understand why and why we continue to try to understand why.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I guess that's the fans do, right,
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: But it is not something that we can pinpoint an
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  Speaker 2: answer to right now as a fan base. No one
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  Speaker 2: knows like no one everyone And like you said, Austin,
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: you probably go read it.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone thinks they no.
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: But this year especially it's so funny the contradicting takes
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: I have, especially around our offense, but in general about everything.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: And this week the new one that came in was
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: Dylan Royola. Like, as crazy as that sounds, I'm with you.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: I'm with you completely. Dylan Royola is still our quarterback
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: and it should be. But there's people in the game
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: booing him.
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: But you can't boo the offense.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: So we just we had a ton of booing on
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: the offense this week in the game and very several
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: people around me yelling get him out of there.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: Dylan's horrible, put in Heinrich, That's just where our fan
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: base is at.
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: We are so all over the place again, and that
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: comes from a lack of hope, a lack of vision
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: for what this looks like. So while we're on the offense,
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: I think that's the big talking point. I think we
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: could talk an hour about it. So the offense struggles again,
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: and I guess the question is, like, what are general
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: thoughts Austin like about the offense after this game?
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: Like I said, this was the first game where I
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: was like, man, our offensive lines kind of getting pushed around,
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: Dylan L's pockets collapsing pretty quickly he was. You could
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: tell you look to run a little bit more this time,
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: but he still wasn't, like I want to run the ball.
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: And then he did run and that's when he got hurt.
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: Ja Cory Barney's really freaking good. I hope he sticks
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: around as long as Dylan sticks around. There weren't screen
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: passes up the wazoo, you know. Uh, we moved the
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: ball like we still almost like we put up twenty
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: one and we were moving the ball well. On that
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: last drive, the interception was an unfortunate outside of the
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: pick six, but the interception on the last drive was
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: an unfortunate The guy got drilled while catching the ball,
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: popped up in the air, hit his leg while he
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: was going down, stayed in the air. Defender dove under
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: it like that's not that's gonna happen.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: So I'll pause you because all those things you just said.
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: It's it's so funny because a week ago those were
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: our I mean, I'll say those were kind of our positives.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: This week.
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: A week ago they were our negatives. We didn't run
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: these screen passes, but our office still wasn't good. It
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: still was just a blaring what is this you mentioned
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: Dylan Royola I heard today listen to a couple of
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: recap pods. We need to stop, you know, putting so
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: much on him and making the game, you know, him
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: take us out of the game. He just looks like
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: he's running around in there, like he doesn't know where
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: he's going. Oh I thought running him around a little bit,
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: and now scrambling was what was working against Ohio State,
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: and now's a little bit different type of running around
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: because he was getting pressured.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: But it's like people don't even know do it? Okay,
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: do it?
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: We don't want Dylan loose now, Like again, nobody like
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: no from a game to game base is what we want.
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: And you're trying to justify everyone's trying to justify why
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: the offense didn't work, and big picture why is It's
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: just it's not good and I don't I don't have
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: an answer to it.
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: Ultimately, the reason the offense hasn't worked is we don't
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: have an identity that we can go back to. Whether
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: that's passive a well, we're not consist said enough in
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: either area. Some games of the running games working really well.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: Some days the running game's garbage, and just the fact
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: that we're not consistent in a single area. It leads
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: fans to be like, man, remember when we were really
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: good running the ball last week? Well I was like, yeah,
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: but we're not good every week at it. So we're
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: just not We're not consistent. What we did well last week,
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: we did poor this week, but we did good last week.
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: Or what we did poor last week, we did good
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: this week. And so there's just frustration in that because
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: what do you do outside of just execute better. Maybe
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: the play calling is bad, maybe yeah.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Sadderfield go.
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: I've already said what I need to say it on
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: the last every podcast since you got already sucks.
• 10:45
  Speaker 4: He's terrible, but.
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, I said the last one in the last
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: p said it was it live after Indiana, so that
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: you guys really have a conversation about him. No, not yet,
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: but I would to be worried about him. He's he's
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: missing wide upen guys. I mean, I guess he's a freshman.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: But okay, I'll pausey on that cause I heard that
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  Speaker 1: a lot too.
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  Speaker 2: He has missed some, but every quarterback at every level
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: misses wide open guys often. That is one thing that
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: frustrating about Husker fans especially in the game. They're like,
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: he's so wide open. I'm like, you, guys, do not
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: understand one when there's pressure and real set a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an excuse when you're you're seeing pressure. He's
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: a freshman. When you're seeing that much pressure constantly, you're
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: not you don't have clear vision. And second of all,
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: everyone misses wide open guys. Has it been a little
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: bit worse maybe than he was the start of the year.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, it also feels worse because we've lost games close
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: and you can be like, if had we hit that
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: open guy. That's I'm not saying that that's why, but
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: that's why. There are people in the stands that are like,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: he's missing the open guy because you go back and
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: you look like, oh man to want it.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: There are these are these fans. They are saying that
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: they look like they could go out there and play quarterback.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: Like you.
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: It.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: It's it's one of those things that what's the solution
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: about quarterback? If you think that if you think Ryola
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: is missing throws, okay, so you're just you're saying, just
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: let's just go with Heinrich like you you really think
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: for the last three games of the year. The Heinrich
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: Harberg is the better option at quarterback for three games
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: than Dylan Rayola. Now, bouncing back and forth between the two,
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: you had to pick one. That's who you're picking. That's
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: who you're going with. Okay, like that, that to me
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: is what and and and you have to keep in
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: mind the future. To right, You're you're you do that,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: You're you're basically saying, Okay, Dylan, we don't want you anymore.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: I think you're making I mean, I think that it's
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: opened up a big can of worms if you decide
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: to do that.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe they're right.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know, because again I don't have the answers.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: You might you might be forced into that though him
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: limping off the field after the game didn't look great.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: Well, if that's totally different.
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: If he's hurt, yeah, yea. And you can't you can't
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: bench Ryle. If you do, he's gone, like, he's not
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: coming back next year if you bench him now.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: So that's what I'm saying, do you again the same
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: people want to try something different? Whatever, because not we're
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: going I get it, like anything right now is not
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: really gonna be worse because it really isn't still that
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: identity or momentum.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: For an offense.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: It So here's what the question that I keep going
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: back to big picture wise with our offense, and it
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: doesn't really have anything to do with specific players, but
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: does the coaching staff that gets paid all this money?
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say this is an opinion, I don't
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: know this. I think rule has way more say over
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: the offense than we think, and I think Saturday Fields
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: more of a yes man puppet guy.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Than an actual creator schemer himself.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's all him, and I don't know
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: we're ever going to know that. I think there's a
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: lot more rule in saying this is what we should
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: be doing now. I think Saderfield probably is still maybe
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: calling the place, but from an identity standpoint, I think
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: this is still rules vision.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: From that big picture standpoint.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I wonder does this coaching staff actually know what they want?
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: And then the second part of that question, do they
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: think they have the players. I'm not saying to have
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: five four or five stars at every position, because obviously
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: no matter what you run, it's probably gonna work pretty well.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: But do they have adequate enough guys that they think
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: this offense should be working or do they know that, Okay,
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: we're just we're missing a couple offensive line guys, we're
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit banged up.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Are running back just aren't there yet? Or that?
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hope they're not saying all that. We
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: don't have, you know, our quarterbacks too young still maybe
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: in a couple of years. I don't know, but that's
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: my that's I guess first question to ask, what do
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: you think about that?
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Do you think they know the coaching staff?
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Because we're going to get into the whole sadder field,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: new offensive coordinator and eventually I'm gonna do it. We're
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: gonna get into the rule conversation. What does what does
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: the offensive picture look like? What do you think they
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: think it looks like? That's my question.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: What do they think it currently looks like? Or what
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: do they think they is?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Offensive? Everything?
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: You think they know? You think they're one.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I think they know what they want. I think they
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: want an offense that is flexible to go against the
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: team that they're playing, that is loaded with just athletes.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: They're all big, fast people. I think that's what they want.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Do you think they think we have the players should
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: do it?
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Do you think if you asked them with a light
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: attempt and said, hey, coach rule, do we have the
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: players that we need to execute this offense effectively? Would
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: he say yes or no?
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  Speaker 4: To that?
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: I would say you'd say yes, yeah.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: I think well without.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Anybody, no, not publicly like one on one, never getting
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: out private.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's yes.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Your wide receiver corps lacking a little bit. But other
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: than that, I still.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Think it's a pretty good wire receiver corps group.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: It's they're pretty good.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Your running backs are just so average.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: So I like this.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: So that's the first part. Again, I don't not saying
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I agree or disagree. I would probably lean where he
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: might say no with a caveat, but if it was
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: a yes or no question, probably no. So second part
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: to that, if he thinks we have the guys, then
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: what that tells me or tells us, is that that
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: that means that this entire picture vision that we have
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: for our offense is.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Just wrong.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: It's not it's not good. If they think this is
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: what should be working and it's not, so, then it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: just it's where our our coaching staff is. I'm gonna
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: call it incompetent or not smart. They're not good coaches
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: to figure out that this isn't working, because I'll say it,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: We've continued to pretty much do the same thing, and
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the next thing is you try,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: but this whole picture of what we're trying to do offensively,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: whatever that is, it's not working. And while it shows flashes, right,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: it's okay at times you allow a first year head
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: coach that's never been a head coach anywhere come to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: your house and beat you and really shut you down
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: for the first half. The second half thing has got
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to working better.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Great. They are also up three touchdowns, so you can
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: play it if.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: You have some thing, have a went. The defense did
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: not get off the field versus like eight minutes, yep,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: and I agree. But the offense right now, the first
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: same thing we've seen all year. The offense in itself
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: does not produce what it didn't produce at all.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: It did when we got down three touchdowns because they
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: got conservative UCLA did, but our offense did not produce.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: And I get it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: You can say anything we want about the defense, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: our offense when they were out there, they went three
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: and out and UCLA did a good job of holding
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the clock. But when you have the ball, then that
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: means you have to take advantage and rule new That's
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: what they do in the first half. You have to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: take advantage of the times you have the ball.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: We didn't do it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Now every time since you brought it up about Saturfield,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I laugh at that. That big playbook he has. What
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: is he what is he looking at there? That has
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: to be for show? Like, he's not He's not that creative.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: He could he can have his plays on what posted note,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: that's that creative he is, But I don't. I think
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: your main problem with Dophins is you don't know. You
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: have no idea what you want your identity to be.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: And that's that's the main thing. Every other game you're
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: trying to either be a run game or a running team,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: and then some games you're trying to be a passing game.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: It's like totally different every game. You just need to
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: stick to one thing and and do that, I guess
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: the most, figure out figure out what you want to
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: be first, a running team.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Pass The rules said when he came here he wanted
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to be what they had. He wanted an a system
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to match the talent that they had.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Which then that's a fun conversation too, because everyone has
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: an idea of what you want to do, and you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: recruit the players to that, or you take the players
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: that you currently have and fit it into a system
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that you want to run.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: So what does he want to be?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Does he want to be a running team or passing team?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I think he wants to be a big, physical team.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Whether that's running, I think, I don't.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the identity is.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think that Rule and staff would have a
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: problem answering that question of what they want to do.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: My problem, I think with the offense that I have,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: this is my this is my opinion now that I've
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: thrown out every option out there, I don't think they
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: know how. I honestly don't think that they are smart
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: offensive football coaches. I don't think Rule is for whatever
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: hand he has in it as the head coach. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: would say I would give him a lean towards his
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: defenses as the head coach his specialty, but I don't
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: know that for sure. I don't think Sadderfield is smart
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and creative now when it goes to play calling, When
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: we go to play calling, I don't know what's all
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: good behind that.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But what I don't see.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think we know how to develop counters to
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: what the other team's doing.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think we have a clue.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think we know how to when you say, hey,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: we can't be predictable this week, I don't think they
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: know how to scheme something up to not be predictable.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: When we say, hey, we need to be creative, we
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: need to put in like five creative plays. What was
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: our creative plays that we put in this week? I'll
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: give you a couple that I thought.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Were new creative.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: One that weird double reverse past thing whatever that was,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: got ten yards off it great. Two full that trap,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: great job. I'll give you a star for that one.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Three we had the little like first and goal from
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the four, the the like reverse hand up that last
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: four yards like that was another play like that was
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: new that failed.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: There's one other one.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, oh, there's a bootleg pass it, we'll help.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Let's even go with the first play of the second half.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Obviously we know what happened there. So I just I
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: just don't think that our coaching staff knows how to
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: be creative, because then I go and watch a game
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Remember who I was watching.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Someone just ran a simple bootleg and leaked the tight
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: end out of the backfield and hit him for twenty
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: five yards. And I'm like, okay, I don't know why
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: they ran that play, but we never see anything like that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It wasn't super complex.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: It was just something that the coaches saw, schemed and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: executed and got thirty yards on a play in the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: middle of the third quarter. I'm like, we don't do
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: any of it. We don't have that option to do. It's
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: not a trick play. It's not a fleet flicker dack,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's being creative and encountering what
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the other team did.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I'm rambling UCLA. Second half. What'd they do?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: They had a great creative play action where they leaked
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the fullback out and we had nobody left, dumped down
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: ran for forty yards.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, they out schemed this there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: That was creative.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: They must have saw something that we blew. An assignment
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: on it and stuff like that. You never see that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: ever out of our offense. So that's what needs me
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: to believe like we just aren't smart.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I don't now like in game play calling. I totally agree.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: There aren't when you're watching it on TV. Haven't been
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: any games, well I went to the Illinois game. Whatever.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: But when you're watching on TV, there's another moment like a, oh, man,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: did you see that they caught them in this scheme?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: And perfectly you're like, oh, they were in a man
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: coverage and they were able to draw their guy with
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: a pick play and cut. There's none of that. There's
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: no conversation of like, oh man, you see him catch that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: It's always like, man, what an incredible throw by Rayola.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: The only time was slipped that track this week, that
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: was the only time that I have that feeling. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: was like, huh, well that was neat, that was smart.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: That's the only time I said that the whole game.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: No, now, yeah, the main the main thing with the
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: rule is, and it keeps happening, is these first year
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: coaches come in and beat you thing, and then I
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: can't I have no clue what the UCLA coach's name,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: couldn't tell you, but another first year coach comes in
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: beats you, and then and I was looking at Minnesota
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: before the Gophers before you come in here, PJ.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Fleck.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Every year has he has no quarterback and they get
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: better as the year goes on. What when's the last
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: time Nebraska has gotten better as the year has gone on?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Like that, they have improved at all as the year's
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: gone on. This year they've gotten worse.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: That's a picture question, Like, when's the.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Last time that you've said, from the beginning of the
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: year we got well.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: I guess maybe last year.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I think West.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and and and the only reason why he got
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: better is because you've been somebody that we don't even
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: bring up.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: We lost our last five games that I don't Yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: we didn't get better.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: No, I can't tell you last time that from beginning
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: of the year that you've gotten better. And I I
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: don't know any game this year that Nebraska, for the
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: full game has a it's good. Yeah, Colorado, the second
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: half you didn't look good, and you didn't look good.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: There's gonna be moments you're not gonna look good in games.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Very few times are you gonna go out and do it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Indiana did do us a few weeks ago. That's very
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: rarely gonna happen.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And maybe they're that good.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: No, I will say again not happy with the team,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: not making excuses for the team, but things to think about. One,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: we all thought that UCLA might be better than what the
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: record showed, yep. And they were coming off of bye week,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: so they did have an extra week to repair. Not
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: that that should do anything, but all things to consider.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, maybe on a week to week basis, which I
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: guess I've been trying to say.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is the third team you played off
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: of bye week.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna face another one.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I yeah, I just it's just hard to swallow these
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: new coaches that, and not only that at programs that
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: don't have the resources and fan base and expectations that
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Nebraska has. That that's the hard part to swallow, regardless
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: of that week to week situation that they're in or
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: what's happening. We just we've just never seemed to be
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: able to improve. And if we do, I think it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a false sense of thinking we
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: were improving from a fan base perspective, I don't. At
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: bottom line, we don't. We don't win, and schedule, schedule
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: is sched whatever the schedule is. It's it's hard, that's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: what's hard. To swallow and obviously Lincoln Riley, now you'd
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: say he's probably one of the I mean, he's been
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a few more places than these other coaches, not to
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: name many other schools. I know Dak has his opinions,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: but some would say, you know he's going to he's
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: going to be one of the better coaches real quick?
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Can I can I do? Can I do my little
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: parade here.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: About what I said earlier about Lincoln Rolly getting fired
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: at the end of the year. Go ahead, gosh, I
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: hope he inspired every everybody said beginning, you're crazy.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: There we go. That's that. That's just my parade right now,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: and keep going.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: What what.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: He's gonna get fired? I think he's getting fired in
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: the end the year. But but all right, that that's
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: my parade.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: You can keep going.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Inspired me to bring him in as OC that'd be incredible.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: You'd want him, Yeah, that'd be perfect with Roola, that
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: would be that would be who you want. But I you,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: you better throw the money out there, because I hope
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: it goes back to Oklahoma. But I didn't say that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: The The other last thing that I guess to have
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to say about the offense and just the game. In general,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: our offense looked better, I say better from a getting
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: first down standpoint because of the three stupid penalties that
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: UCLA committed on one sportsman likes and I don't. I
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: don't have no idea what they did. Like, I never
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: didn't go back like maybe they were.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: One of them was pulling a guy off a pile.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Another one was you shoved the guy in the back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: And then one of them they were taunting the sideline.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: So great, like, thank you refs. I guess, like, no
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: talk about the refs this week, right, we lost? No
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: talk about the refs.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: There really weren't any controversial calls this week.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: To be honest, I bet you UCLA is not happy
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: about those three.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Uh they were. I would say the pile one was
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: definitely it was a buy the book call. Probably didn't
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: deserve it. The other two the guy walked towards our
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: sideline and was chirping at him and like giving hand gestures.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: The other one, the other dude definitely shoved the guy
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: one of our offensive linement in the back in front
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: of the ref and.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Two of them were on fourth down.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: So gifts like pure gifts that made that made this
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: loss or was us coming back. I'm like, we don't
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: deserve to win this game, Like we were given so
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: many stupid things that game that we were we were
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: so bad and the majority of the games. I mean,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I obviously wanted to win, but at the same time,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I was like, this is stupid, this is like, this
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: is dumb we played. We have played so bad and
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: just looked horrible this whole game and we still have
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: a chance to win. Hell, we were down thirteen to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: seven a half time and everybody was like, oh my god,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: we feel like we're down thirty five to seven right now.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Just the way the game was going, it just felt
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: horrible because of the way everything went. Bill Oh, not
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to mention the offense that we had in the first half,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the seventy two yards offense with forty of them being
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: on I'm not gonna say it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Was not a good thrown ball by Dylan.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: It came out wobbly, it was almost adduct and it
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: just happened that Barney ran underneath it, and the U. C.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: L A. D.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: D Backs were not anywhere near Like that was forty
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: yards of our seventy two yards offense in the first half.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: It just was It was so bad.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So I just didn't.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I didn't think that our offense did anything. Again late
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: in the game. I hate to say it, but it's
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: that that's all in game UCLA saying Okay, we're up
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: twenty seven to seven. We can afford to play off
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: and not be as aggressive, and we took advantage of it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Props to us, I guess, but the game was in
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: control at that point for the most part. We almost
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: had made a miraculous comeback.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But you didn't.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: No one thought we were scoring on that drive, did you.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, honestly, and that we were. We were
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: moving the ball pretty well in the second half. Once
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: we missed the extra point, though, I was like, oh no,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: it's not half ed.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah I missed that. I was at a wedding. What
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: how did he just shank the kick or what?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: He shanked the kick? Yeah?
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I went I went took a p after that touchdowns
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: like I came back. I was like, they go for two?
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: What happened? I missed the Pah? Wow?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Is honestly moving the ball all right? I really?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I honestly, it's that's that's U c l A being conservative.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say it. That's my opinion. I just
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I don't think that as much to do with anything
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: of how we played offense. Second, it's gonna count towards
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the stats.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: But that that pick wasn't on him either. That's just
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: the Fluke play. And I did ask earlier and rides
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: the play happened, I was like, man, they might throw
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: that from unncessary roughing this.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: What did you think that? That was a hit? Uh?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Kind of targeting hit to the head, Austin.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: It was definitely a hard hit. I'm fine with them
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: there no.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Call, Yeah, rewatching it again. It was kind of they
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: didn't leave with the helm or anything.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I think. I think it was a good no call.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: But but in real time, I was like, holy crap,
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: it was just a good, hard hit.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: And usually nowadays lls get flagged.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But okay, flip side defense. I don't know. I don't know.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I good, there's good and bad. It wasn't our defense's
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: best game, but they did come through a couple of times.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: First half was horrendous from about all levels. I guess
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: we came through and.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Held them to two field goals.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: But U c.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: L A milked that clock and converted every third down
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: they needed to and rule said it. That's what they've
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: done another game, so we shouldn't be surprised by it.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: But they did it to us. First two drives in
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a row. We never had the ball. It felt like
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: in the first half their quarterback was running, which apparently
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: we knew he could run a little bit. But this,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: this Garberge, who supposedly was horrible, we made him look
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: a lot better. Again, it's like we've done to every
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: other opposing teams quarterback. The second half, I thought we
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: played better for the most part, but the.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: One only gave it defensively, gave seven points in the second.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Half, but once again, the one drive that we needed
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: to get a stop and get off the field, we
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: got a penalty. It was second and eighteen and we
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: had a guy tackled for a five yard game by
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: four guys. Bounces off, gets the first down. Next play,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: corner route, blown coverage, touchdown.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, I get it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Defense played well, but you that one lapse one possession
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: when we need to stop it doesn't happen. And after
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: that touchdown twenty seven to seven, you go whoo.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: So I get it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: There's some good there, it's fine, but that does that's
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: not gonna win your football games.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: And if you are going to take the attitude.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Of blaming someone the defense, you can't say, well, our
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: offense put us in a bad situation.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: The defense gave up twenty points.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: And we've said it, you got to really hold them
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: under twenty to win games.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: And then the offense gave up seven.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: So it was okay performance.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: It was an okay performance. It wasn't winning Tony White
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: any jobs. They they just had to get them off
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: the field and they couldn't. I don't know why, but
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: it was just it was painful.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: That's kind of been the story of your season though.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: You've had a lot of drive and you can to
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: stop and they just can't do it.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: The one stop you need, I can't.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I can't remember what game right now, but the one
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: stop you need, you need you just don't get. Yeah,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: last week, yeah, Rutgers, you did the whole game.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: You stopped them. But but yeah, it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Was an okay performance, Like you held them. You can't
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: play that game on our defense at all. Like for
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: as crappy as or offense was, that first half, being
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: able to just keep.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: You in the game is all you really need right there,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: and then you.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Can't, but you can't. You can't, but you can. Though, Guys,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Ucla is not a good football team.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: They're not. I don't. I don't care what we think
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: better than we. I don't. I don't care like that.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: UCLA's two and five. They're not good.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah there we' I mean Rutgers in Purdue, I guess
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: must be really freaking bad. Ucla is not a good
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: football team. And we made them look but we gave
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: them a win, and they want they beat us.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: They came to Lincoln and beat us.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: That that that's the part that they're two and five,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Like I get their schedules kind of tough.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: They're they're not they're not good.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And I guess, I guess this goes back to the
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: whole tier question and where we're at, Like we're just
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: we're one of the twelve Big ten teams that are
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: sitting from eight six, seven to eighteen. Like we're one
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: of them, I guess, And everybody's kind of the same
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: spot a week to week basis. And I think USC
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin maybe you're in that tier two. But it's
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: just frustrating when that when when the situation that U c.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: L A is in you take a step back and
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: try to look at it from not Nebraska standpoint, like
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: they shouldn't have beat us. Yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: And another thing is by U C. L A.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: They just moved to the Big Ten, which every commerce
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: placed DIFFERENTTOPT football, and the first year in the Big Ten,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: they come in and beat in Lincoln, like and.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: We're supposed to our identity is supposed to be the
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: being the biggest team.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they I would say, out physical to you
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: that game like that. They they came in the years
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: prior to this, and they were always spread kind of
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: weak teams in this and then one year in the
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Big Ten with new coach, they come in and beat you.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Already, it's like just to kick to the balls.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: What I'll can continue to say for the rest of
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: And now we have a bye week, but still we
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: have to take it on a week to week the
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: basis because everything that we've seen has just been just
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: crazy in college football, Nebraska schedule in general. Like you
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: just don't know. So while this might hurt and make
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: you just feel with a bunch of questions that you
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: don't have answers to, which is exactly how I feel.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Have no words for a lot of it. The season's
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: not over as a fan, and there still has to
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: be hoped. The problem is, yes, that hope word that
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: we talk about that is going to be that's now
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: getting challenged more for two parties. One the fans, who
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: could give a shit less about right, like if some
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: fans give up in the season, which we've done, like
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: including maybe some myself at times, okay, whatever, but the
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: players and the team and what they believe in as
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: far as hope for the rest of the year. And
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it, buy in for what rule of
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: speaking for.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: For the future, I will say, And.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: We don't know what that answer to that is.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I will say. Getting a little tired of the world
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: press conferences this year, I understand. But if I have
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: to hear him say, give credit to the UCLA man.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: They came out here and they executed, I'm gonna. I'm
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: just gonna. I just don't need to hear it. I
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: know you lost. You don't know why. You're glad you guys, but.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I mentioned it after Indiana. You're mentioning it now. That
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: question mark is creeping in. Just you said press conference,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: that's not Real's future. But you just start to question
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: you are to get tired of whatever, whatever it may be.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I guess my question, and this is, can we all
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: agree that Rule is a very good communicator? Yes, yes, okay,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Like I would say that is one of his best
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: qualities as a leader, as a coach. This is kind
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: of a fun question that got posed to me.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: How many.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say great communicator, great to the public
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: to that to what gets shared, how many great legendary
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: coaches are phenomenal communicators. Like I'm not gonna say exactly
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: like Rule is, but just like they word things very
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: very well.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: There's there's exceptions, but.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Has had a thought it was It's curious, it's it
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: made me go.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Saban wasn't really he was good.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Saban was good.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Saban is is as he's in a different category. He's
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: your hard ass like short with the media, like like Greg,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: maybe not Greg Popovich level, but like similar to where
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: it's like nope, like I really don't give a crap
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: with the media. Is gonna say, like I'm just going
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to Rule, We'll say real cares about what questions the
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: media asked?
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: How which presented the team?
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Real cares?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's wrong.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: As a Nebraska head football coach.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I agree, it probably is a little more important.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Pop save that.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Save that thought. Saban doesn't care.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, going through great football coaches, I don't know.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't watch any other press conferences.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying, like over over the past, right,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Joe Paterno like just as quiet, like didn't really care.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Mike Leach just a complete weirdo. Right, Uh, I'm gonna
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: say it. Kurt Signetti just a weirdo, like just like
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: a weird p J. Fleck a weirdo. You see, Alas
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: coach is a weirdo. I don't.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen him.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about like really good, like really really good
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: successful coaches. Gosh, there's so many more that came to mind.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: They're all kind of weird.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Oh Wlayne Kiffin like, and I'm not maybe not weird
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: is the right word. But they're just they just they
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: they just say it as it is and there's no
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: there's no like. They're doing what they want to do
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: with the program to get the program to have success,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: rules doing that to an extent. But to austin your point,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: he has he is. He is so cautious and careful
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: and words thinks, and he does a good job of it.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I think we think.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: To me that this is where it ties all the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: way back to the fans and the expectations of Nebraska,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: and it just sucks. There's nothing you can do about it,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: but you He has to do that, and therefore it
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: takes a little bit away from saying no, like I'm
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the blue collar mentality what Nebraska football was about with
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Tom Osborn, and we had all these years right in between,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: but the blue collar toughness, I'm gonna line up, I'm
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: gonna kick your ass because that's how Nebraska football does it.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: We've gotten away from that.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: We are now this like prestige, top of the notch, best,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: best facilities, best everything, program and everything has to be
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: put together in such a particular way to make it
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: sound good. That's why we didn't like Bow. We fired Boat.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Not saying Pa is a solution, but both and how
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: he wanted to right And who's been our best coach
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: since Tom from a win perspective, Solis, Well maybe Bo.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: It's who I'm you know, So it's like it's weird
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: now it opens your eyes and okay, not rule is
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: a good communicator, and that is a good quality of
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: a leader. And I think there's a big important piece
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: of that. But does that take away from all of
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the other things that go into coaching where you can
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: just bring a guy in and say, you know what,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: we're gonna let this guy. I'm just gonna use a
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: random example that the code free tech comes in. He
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: takes over as a head coach, right, and he can
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: see whatever he wants to the media. He's not gonna
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: be judged. We're gonna he's gonna coach a team exactly
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: how he wants to do it. He's gonna be tough, minded, gritty, tough,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: and rule preay does a lot of those things. But
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: there's no priority, no anything that you have to deal
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: with anything else besides I'm gonna make this team better.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: And you can do whatever you want.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: You can be weird, you can be goofy, you can
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: come into the press conference's dress as a weirdo, whatever
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: you want to do, but it doesn't affect the level
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: of I guess, time and comitment and focus that you
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: have on your team.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: And again, I don't think rules not focus on the team.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I just think there's so much going on in Nebraska
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: that comes with it, that comes with the job. It's
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: going to for at least the next ten years. Probably
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: maybe after that, we're going to start seeing some decline
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: because all the people are going to start dying. That's
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: a little morbid, but it's true. That's going to come
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: part with it, so you have to deal with it.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: That's part of it. But that's just the reality of
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: the situation. I think with rule and right now, those
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: question marks wrapping it all. Back to Austin's point, they're
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: just starting to creep in with the fans, with the boosters,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: with the administration. Everybody is starting to put the question
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: mark on it right now. And there's still a lot
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: of you to change that. But that's where we're at
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: right now, I think.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's definitely I can't speak to Booster well,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: boosters are fans, but like the actual administration, it's tough because,
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, a seven year contract saying hey, this is
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: a big rebuild, We're not going to turn this around
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: in two years, and then here we are two years
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: in being like, hey, why the fuck are we winning?
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I I don't like like I said, reading
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: the Reddit comments is like, Okay, I'm clearly better headspace
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: than half of these guys. These guys are fucking insane.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: They were like rulings to be fired tomorrow. And I
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: was like, okay, let's not. Let's not.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: There's people there. I mean, the extremists are there.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: But I agree, there's there's extremists everywhere.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Like we we knew this wasn't. We had hope. I
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: think part of it is just where we put our
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: hope and ruled in help. He said, you thought this
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: rebuild is going quicker than years past, and how we
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: are not winning is tough. But it's year two. The
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: we're three years removed from what three and nine. I
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I mean that takes time?
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Does it not taking time? In Indiana?
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: You're right, but there wasn't as much of a negative culture.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: There was a.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Lot of games.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of coaches that come in and it.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Lost a lot a lot of games.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's true. And but Signetti came in with
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: players rules, coming in and having to start from the scratch.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Signetti brought most of his staff and half of the
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: players from James Madison, where he already had it established.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: I feel like you just got to get the just
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: the stink.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Off of if we get a bowl game win, I
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: think it helps so much.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: Yep, you gotta get the stink and you gotta win
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: a one score game, which this game at that list again,
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: of one score games, it's the only one that I
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: went to. One of the worst games ever watched in
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: my life. But anyway, you just gotta get the stink
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: out of which it might be because the older seniors
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: and stuff are used to it by now. So maybe
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: once you get through this class you can get guys
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: that aren't like used to losing. I guess you could say.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: So, we just gotta take a breath, just take a moment.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that is where you can question him.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That is where you're right. I think.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I still think that is. I still think that is
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: the biggest thing. Is getting to a bowl game, winning
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: a bowl game, whatever it is, that's the most important thing.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: That goal is not escaped.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: We still only have to win one game, but we
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: said it going into the Indiana game. You lose this one,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: you don't you probably alread even know how to state,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: which we almost did. Then the pressure builds for UCLA.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: It feels like I must win because you think the
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: last three are tougher. Well, now the pressure is built again.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: So we're here like we're living it. We said this
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: could happen. It doesn't mean it's over.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: We all, all of us, before the season started, expected
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: this team to go seven and five. Three of the
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: last games are winnable. Not that we will win them all,
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: but they are all within the realm that we could
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: win them based off what we have seen. So it
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: could still happen.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: But the caveat to that is the mind go back
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: to the mindset that we've talked about a lot this year.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Getting our mindsets don't matter, players mindsets, the coach's mindsets.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Everybody in that walker room. Can their mindsets get right
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: to do that? Yeah, from a black and white like
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: simulation type, take emotion and all that out of it.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: You're right like they're winnable games and you click a
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: button on a computer and you want to simulate the game.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: We might we probably could win two of those three,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: but that's not how it works. It does come down
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: to all the stuff that we talked about today with offensively,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: what the hell are we going to do these last
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: three games? Because right now we continue to do the
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: same thing, which we've done most of the year.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: I don't like vill I mean maybe not now, not
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: having I'm pro Dylan do not cut this and say
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: I'm anti doing but having Heinrich have to play. I
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: would prefer Dylan play, but I have to play. It
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: might force the coaches to actually evaluate what they are
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: doing the like, Okay, we have to change things to
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: work around our new I want to say limitations.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: But see and maybe like whether they do that or not,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: this is where I'm this is where my hope is
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: like torn right now. I don't think they're smart enough
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: to do that. I don't think they know. Like I'm
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: comparing it back to basketball. If the team I'm gonna say,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: comes out and really full court, gets up in your
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: face and and the nisius that you can't make a pass,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Like as a basketball coach, you have a simple counter.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: That says, hey, when they do that, next time we
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: come down.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: The court, we're gonna run a back door cut because
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: they're overplay and we're gonna throw a back door pass
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: and get a layup and make them pay for it.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: When teams and I just got this from the press conference,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: like you mentioned Dawson a little bit like Rule talks.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: They came out and zero blitzed us and gave deal
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: on a bunch of different looks, and I'm like, yeah,
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: they did, So do we not have an answer for that?
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Like do we not have a counter to when they
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: do that? And and then Rule says, and someone might
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: have followed up our said He's like, yeah, well we
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: you know, want some screen passes. I'm like, we didn't
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: run any screens. Oh wait, we did last week and
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: that was just disaster. Like I'm just like, no, whatever
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: your counters are aren't work. So again, I don't know
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: that we're smart enough to figure out what's different. That's
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: where my hope from an opposive standpoint is torn. And
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything you do about it right now.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: That's why it's scary and the answers are not there.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: You can't you can't fire Sadurfield, I don't think. But
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I think maybe you can put Glenn Thomas in charge.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know, like maybe that's something you can try internally,
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: you can try to do. You meant you mentioned the
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: hype behind Erichy thing. We've talked about that, but then
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: what's hard. You go out against Ohio State and things
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: look good from a running standpoint, so you're like, Okay,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: maybe we're figuring something out.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: So that's where yes, it's frustrating, but you're right, take
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: a deep breath.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: We have a bye week.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: The bye week is going to be a tough bye week,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: I think for the players, because you do have two
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: weeks to just swallow on.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: This and gough.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: But I think it's enough time to once you swallow
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: it and get past it, you have the time then
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: to take a deep breath. And then next thing you know,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: you're not playing right away. You actually have time to
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: take the deep breath and now say, okay, reset three
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: games left, here's what we got to do. I think
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I hope that for the hope that's there, this coaching
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: step gets to that point with this team to where
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: we go in and play well against the USC on
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: the road, we play well against Wisconsin, Iowa looks to
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: him friking good. Now we play well at Iowa to
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: end the year, and hopefully one of those results in
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: a win so we can go bowling and.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Have more practice time.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I think with this, I mean they think that's a
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: big thing, bigger than we realize. You get that extra
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: month and a half to practice. When you do that,
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: you don't do that, And I don't want to go
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: down this path. Things are going to get pretty ugly,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: I think, from a from a question the question marks.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Are going to get more and more and more and
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger and bigger.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: And it's gonna be interesting what happens in the offseason
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: this year.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: I think we don't make If we don't make the
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: ball game, if we don't make a bowl game, there
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: will be changes at the coaching level. Matt wi will
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: not be.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: One of those changes. I don't think he will be,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: but there's going to be a lot of discussion.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: He's too sorry, but there will be seven years. There
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: will be amongst dumb people, seven years. The contract. It's
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: on top of what we're already paying out there. It's
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: just like, all right, we have to he's gonna be
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: here for year three. It's gonna be like the Scott
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Frost Sinary, where it's like, all right, well, we have
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: to at least see where this goes this year.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think it will happen. There's just gonna be discussion.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: Who would you bring in though that would he? I mean,
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: you keep, you can't just keep.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Everybody does though everybody does. I'm just saying everybody blings
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: through coaches. Yeah, that is the reality. Name coaches right
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: now that are at schools for longer than five years.
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: James Franklin, which, for the love of God, can.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: You a different state of the program.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: He's been stuck in Neutral for ten years.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: There's there's so many programs that are obviously obviously or
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Georgia's your hell, you know what I mean? Those schools
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: are a different state, but schools that are in Nebraska State.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: You're not saying coaches stay or because we're kind of
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: unique where this maybe is an end job if you,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: if you coach, well, if a lot of could be
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: your last job, A lot of coaches on the caliber
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: level of Maryland, A U C l A, A, Indiana Right.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, you move up to a bigger job. The Alabamas,
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: the Georgia's, the Florida's the.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Go and.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: At Florida State. I mean that that was a rumor,
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: a thing that got floated around. Not anymore, I don't think,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: but like when we were five and zero that someone
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: said that not even no, no one credible, but that
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: just it got thrown out there, so I don't know
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: it again. A lot of conversation for down the road,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: but that's just where my head's at is. Just so
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: many questions and so many like thoughts. But you're right, Austin,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: deep breath, it's a bye weekday figured out. Let's not panic,
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: but no that it could be coming. But we don't
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: need to right now, and the players should not, and
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: the Coke shouldn't. The fans do what the hell ever
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: hell you want to do, because I really don't care
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: what everybody thinks.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: But we're five and four, three games left that are winnable,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: not easy wins, winnable, and we expect it has to
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: be six and six or seven and five at the
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: end of the year going into the season with the schedule,
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: so we're still in play.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're gonna be favored out of those three.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Probably, yeah, probably done in Wisconsin.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe I see you well Iowa.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: But we're not going to be a ten plus point
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: dog that any Maybe I maybe, but I know we're
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: gonna be within a ten point spread, probably within a
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: touchdown spread of all of them.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Six and a half. I guess, yes, see that.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: That's that That's where it's at. So I they're all
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: winnable games. If you play well, we can win. We
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: can win all of them. So it comes down to
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: what what faith and hope there is within the locker room,
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: which is something that we don't know. We can only speculate,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: but we do know as fans that conversations and we
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I just sat there during the U c l A game.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: I said, boy, it is going to be a rough week.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: And I didn't even get on Reddit or I haven't
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: even looked at Twitter much today, but I'm sure it's
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: just brutal out.
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: There was the was the crowd record to celebrate making
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: a Bowl game coming like going into it as the
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: crowd pumped up, you felt like.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean shit, we had. That was the most
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: pumped up any of our text chains have been. On
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: game day, It's like freaking six thirty morning hunters like GVR,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: let's go bowling. That doesn't happen. Ever, I talked to
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: my neighbor who I never talked to us of going
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: to the game, gonna watch just punch our ticket to
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: a Bowl.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: And that's probably why.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Maybe it hurts a lot more than it probably should,
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: but I agree it.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: The crowd was fine, and I think the rain it
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: was hard to tell because it was supposed to rain
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: that it didn't, but it was pretty. The winds were
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: kind of taking out of everybody's sales right away on
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: their first drive, which UCLA took the ball.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Took the ball, marched it down for eight minutes, and
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: then we go three and out. It's like, oh boy,
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: oh man.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: That happens.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, both sides of the ball, you're going. That
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: was about as worse as I could go and worse
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: that could go. I don't think that was how the
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Indiana game went in for like the next three quarters.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: It didn't continue to go like that, but it at
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: times it still felt like that, right, So.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, at least the basketball season, right, Yeah, I.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Was gonna say Husker volleyball team swept Wisconsin.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: That was cool.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: That was great, and then swept Northwestern.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, so that was that was awesome.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: I do want to spend a little bit of time
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: you're talking about the basketball team, and we will here
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: continue as we start playing some games. But we opened
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: tomorrow against threeal Grand Valley I believe I went to
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: our exhibition game on Sunday, Sunday, Yes, Sunday of last week,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: so a week from today. I don't have many positive
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: things coming.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Out of that, I will say.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: And the we didn't play Sam, Sam didn't play Hoiberg,
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: and neither did the transfer from North Dakota State. Blanking
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: on his name the post, I'm.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Not I didn't look into it.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: I also don't think Hoyberg is a top five player.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: He's got a lot of pieces that will help the
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: team with this year. I am scared kind of similar
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: to our UH football team, what our offensive identity and
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: system is going to be without Case, Tominaga and Rank,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: but mainly Case on the court. Case opens up so
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: much when you have a guy that you have to
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: game playing around.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: When he crossedesaf court. From a shooting perspective.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: The Case also was able to drive and do some
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: things in the paint too.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: You had to know where he was.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: I think that opens up a lot for other players
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: more than we realized. I'm scared we don't have that
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: guy anymore. I thought maybe a Seagan from Wisconsin or
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: a season I don't want to get his name right, could.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe be a little.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: More elusive and versatile and and run him, run him
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: more off screens and kind of some of the stuff
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: we do with the Case that's not I don't think
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: that's gonna happen. I don't think he's as quick as
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Case was. Bryce Williams is going to have to be
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: a dude. That first half against our exhibition game, it
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: did not look very promising that that could be the case.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: In the second half, it did pick up and look better.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: Juwan Gary is gonna have to score, but he's not.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: He's not a primary scorer. It's a little scary what
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: this team's offense is going to look like.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of good opponents to work it out.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: But it just didn't seem like we have a good
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: system right now.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Obviously we haven't played.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: A game, but that's that's the red flags come in
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: my way right now on the basketball team. Schedule is
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: gonna be favorable. It's gonna help us out a lot.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot of time to work things through,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: figure out what works, which I think is very smart. Defensively,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna be fine.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: I think we have length, we have guys that are
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: going to be tough minded. We have some athletes defensively
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: that Braxton Mia that from Washington transfer.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: He is a shot blocker, like.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be good inside from bestial teams that want
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: to drive it and try to score on us. He's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: not gonna be much of an offensive threat though, he's
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: just not. I don't don't see him doing much there.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: But defensively he's gonna be probably better than Rank was,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: which which is gonna help us on the defensive end
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: of the floor. But again, offense concerns, there's gonna be
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: a lot there. We'll see how things go here to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: open the season. Still promise, there's still hope I think
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: with the team, but we'll see how it goes. That's
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: just my opening thoughts. That we're watching the exhibition game.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: I didn't watch, so I don't like hearing that.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: We're gonna miss Casey guys more than we realize. We
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: we finally got a guy that we've been saying for
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: years that from an offensive shooting standpoint, can just knock
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: down shots, and that helped us out so much. Yep,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: we have guys that can shoot the ball. I think
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: we did bring in. We have depth, Like that's the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: word I keep hearing. But I think the depth is
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: with a lot of guys, Like our running backs are
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: five or six out of ten, We have a lot
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: of average guys. Can Bryce Williams step in and be
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: that and be a type prospect player this year, That's
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: what we're gonna need to see.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: I think for us to have a good.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: Year, be that, and it's gonna be defensive to win.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: His game is kind of like our football team.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: Yep, it's not gonna be You're not gonna be a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: high scoring, flashy geam.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: We'll say that, and I'm okay with that from our basket,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Like I kind of like that style, but we have
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: to be a like offense.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: We cannot go on seven.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Eight minutes scoring droughts like it can't happen, and we've
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: shown to do that in the past. I just think
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to find a way to be creative
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: with the system that we're running, and Hoiberg is the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: guy that we want to do that. I think he
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: he does a pretty good job of that. It's just
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: it's just not gonna be centered around a star necessarily
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: that we've had in the past. Last year we didn't
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: really have it. We had about four guys that were
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: all the similar. But I think Case a.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: Threat on the court was huge work effectively last year.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: You yeah, I mean your your defense should be better
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: of that case. But got that that's scoring off the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: bank or that scoring going into a game, especially just
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: from three. Based it out for other guys a lot
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: too when they had to. I mean, you had to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: focus on him the whole time you're on the Brasklon offense.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: But I think a team is actually gonna be okay
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: Decent, not anywhere great, but like I've heard a lot
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: of people say they're gonna suck, I don't. I mean,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: you got Gary come back, you got Williams come back.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: I think I think that point guard that gambled that game,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: what his name is, I think he's decent.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you brought that up.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: Aaron Elis from Iowa and then Rollie Worcester who came
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: over from Utah. We do have two true type point guards.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Now they're gonna be where they're gonna be. They're not
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're scorers there, but they're they're solid,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: sure with the ball.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Type of guys.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: And they did have a couple of decent takes and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: layups that they scored on the exhibition game that I'm like, Okay,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: that was good, Like that was decent. But they don't
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: look like the playmaker type people that we've had in
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: the past. Uh maybe not necessarily a point guard. The
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: other guy that I think is a wild card that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: if he he just looks a little bit I don't
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: call him gangly, but just a little bit rusty or
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: not coordinated quite yet. But he's athletic as heck, and
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I can tell he can do a lot because they
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: had him bring the ball to the course and they
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: had him in the post, they had him play on
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: top of the key they had him is a berkue
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: bungein Cell or whatever his name is. That he actually
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: looks and is kind of built like a Yokic type
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: of player, just watching him in person, and plays a
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: little bit just kind of point moves a little bit
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: like him. He's not super quick, but he's he's got
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: the shoulders, he's got the body. He's six nine, six ten,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: he's can shoot three a little bit. He's a big
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: I think that could be a wild card. This year
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: that is gonna play a lot and hopefully can give
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: us an offensive production because of who he is and
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: how he plays the game. Uh So he was one
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: that I was like, Okay, that's cool. And then Gavin
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: griff Griffith is I think can shoot the ball goggles
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: from Ruggers and I think a season can too, Like
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: both of them can. It's just they're not going to
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: be your cases that caliber of how he used him
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: in the offense.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: Yep, well all goggles and think can come in and
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: safe the day.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna play ten guys and he's gonna
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: be one of them. We're gonna play ten guys that
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: we just were very deep. We're very deep, and that's good.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: That's good, the good problem to have. But it'd also
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: be nice to have a couple of guys that we say, hey,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: that this person can't come off the court because they're
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: that valuable to us.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe Bryce is that guy.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: But I'm I'm excited to see how they are tomorrow.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: It'll be interesting.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we'll be back Wednesday, Bye week. Keep breath, everybody,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: We're gonna do it.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: We'll be fine.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: Fire sadder Field, you got a whole week.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Ye go bi your head if.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: You are go
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: School, m