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Owen Chambliss · Husker Buzz

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Speaker 1: Sean, what's the deal with Owen Chambliss? Why do people
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Speaker 1: think this is some sort of a savior for the
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Speaker 1: Nebraska football team? He's one of 11 out there. He's
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Speaker 1: a transfer. He's never played here before, but there's this
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Speaker 1: incredible emphasis on his presence on the field. Walk us
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Speaker 1: through the Owen Chambliss story.
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Speaker 2: He led San Diego State in tackles last year. What
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Speaker 2: was it? As they call him, the general of the defense.
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Speaker 2: That's what they call him here now as far as
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Speaker 2: leading the charge and Scored very well on his pro
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Speaker 2: football focus grade in his first game back. You know,
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Speaker 2: things just looked cleaner, operated better with him out there
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Speaker 2: running the show. I mean, he was Vincent Shavers kind
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Speaker 2: of in that role the week before when he wasn't
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Speaker 2: out there. I just think it's an important part of
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Speaker 2: your defense, almost the quarterback, the guy that kind of
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Speaker 2: sets the table for the entire defense when he plays.
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Speaker 1: All right. Well, he probably didn't get blocked as well
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Speaker 1: in the Mountain West Conference, as he will in the
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Speaker 1: Big Ten, but we'll see how it goes.
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Speaker 2: What's wrong with him?
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Speaker 1: Well, I, I, I'd like to see guys prove they
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Speaker 1: can do it here before we start bronzing statues.
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Speaker 2: He had a good first game.
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Speaker 1: He did have a good first game against a team
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Speaker 1: that's liable to lose every game this year. That's all. Uh,
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Speaker 1: just before we bronze statues, let's see what he can
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Speaker 1: do against a guy that blocks them. That's all. He
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Speaker 1: might be great, but let's hold on.
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Speaker 2: Um, all right.
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Speaker 1: Let me talk about North Dakota. Uh, Now, North Dakota
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Speaker 1: State has been a powerhouse of college football, maybe the
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Speaker 1: most underrated program in the country over the last 15
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Speaker 1: or 20 years. They've produced NFL guys. They've won big
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Speaker 1: games and national championships. Talk about the state of high
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Speaker 1: school football up there. When did North Dakota suddenly become
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Speaker 1: a football state?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, high school football there, the numbers are really limited
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Speaker 2: in both South and North Dakota. There's just not a
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Speaker 2: lot of Class A-level programs if you're going like to
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Speaker 2: that level, but there are developmental prospects. Kids, they get
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Speaker 2: a lot of their players from Minnesota, Wisconsin, in the
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Speaker 2: surrounding areas. And they get some Nebraska kids there, too.
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Speaker 2: It's not just North Dakota kids by any means. It
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be enough guys. But, you know, you find the
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Speaker 2: developmental linemen that can play. And you get them, you know,
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Speaker 2: for five years, hopefully, in two or three years. You know,
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Speaker 2: a 250-pound type kid. Like, their left tackle, Trey Spaden,
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Speaker 2: is from Millard West. He was a 6'7 tight end
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Speaker 2: in high school. And now he's 6'7, 308 pounds. And
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Speaker 2: he's an NFL draft pick. But... that's the track record
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Speaker 2: of what those Dakota schools have all done over the years.
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Speaker 2: They have the patience to build on some of these guys.
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Speaker 2: In the Power Four, there's so much more pressure to
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Speaker 2: bring guys in that can play now and play immediately.
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Speaker 2: A 250-pound tight end in high school that you want
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Speaker 2: to play on the offensive line wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 2: play in the Power Four. I just think there's different
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Speaker 2: developmental philosophies that you see in the FCS ranks. And
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Speaker 2: Eric Schmidt, who comes from that Kalen DeBoer mafia of coaches,
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Speaker 2: he worked with DeBoer at Washington. It's interesting, all these
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Speaker 2: Dakota guys that have had success, a lot of them
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Speaker 2: kind of have intertwined with DeBoer in some way or another.
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Speaker 2: And Schmidt worked with him at Washington and obviously has
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Speaker 2: the background, or they worked in the Dakotas together, too.
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Speaker 1: Now, North Dakota State has joined the Power Conferences. North
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Speaker 1: Dakota U, who Nebraska's playing this week, is going to
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Speaker 1: stay at the FCS level. But North Dakota State is
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Speaker 1: now a member of the Pacific 10 Conference, or Pac-8, 10, 12,
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Speaker 1: 14 Conference. Mountain West. Yeah, Mountain West, which is essentially
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Speaker 1: the rebuilding of the old Pac-12. Do you think that
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Speaker 1: North Dakota State, because of that, and the retooled Mountain West,
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Speaker 1: has a chance to join the elite of college football
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Speaker 1: and be a regular playoff contender?
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Speaker 2: Well, kind of the higher-branded programs like Washington State, Oregon State,
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Speaker 2: they re-launched the Pac-12. North Dakota State is in the
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Speaker 2: Mountain West, and UNLV and New Mexico are kind of
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Speaker 2: the bell cows in that league now. But they're with
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Speaker 2: them at this point. But yeah, North Dakota State... The
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Speaker 2: move has gone very well for them, and they have
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Speaker 2: a chance to win the Mountain West in their first
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Speaker 2: year and could potentially get a college football playoff spot
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Speaker 2: as the at-large. A lot depends on kind of Boise State, Memphis,
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Speaker 2: and Western Michigan, probably the three best teams right now.
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Speaker 2: But it's been a very good move. But on the
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Speaker 2: other side of it, it's gone very well for North
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Speaker 2: Dakota this year. They're ranked number six right behind South
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Speaker 2: Dakota State in the Missouri Valley at this point. And
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Speaker 2: they think they can contend for the national championship. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: they're playing high-level football at all of those schools right
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Speaker 2: now in the Dakotas.
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Speaker 1: Can North Dakota State compete in the transfer portal?
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Speaker 2: You know, they've never really had to do that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it kind of remains to be seen what their money
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Speaker 2: situation is to get players in the portal. You know,
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Speaker 2: what kind of guys are they going after? Are they
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Speaker 2: going to continue to do things the way they've always
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Speaker 2: done them and find guys, develop guys? They've lost guys
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Speaker 2: in the portal, but... They've done an excellent job of
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Speaker 2: retaining kids there to stay there, too, over the years
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Speaker 2: because they get comfortable in the culture and they like
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Speaker 2: it there. So, yeah, I don't know if that's necessarily
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Speaker 2: their model. They're not going to go after guys that
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Speaker 2: Nebraska and Ohio State are going after in the transfer portal.
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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of a different recruiting philosophy regardless
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Speaker 2: when they go in the portal. All right, Sean.
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Speaker 1: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Great update.
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Speaker 1: We'll get an update on personnel if there are any
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Speaker 1: major changes ahead of the North Dakota game tomorrow. on
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Speaker 1: Email here from Ronald says, I thought Callahan and Rosie
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Speaker 1: were going to get into fisticuffs.
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Speaker 2: Calm down, boys. It's just football.
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Speaker 1: This is what fans do. They go at each other
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Speaker 1: for 60 minutes.