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Episode 6.31: Game Week Preview -- USC · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast November thirteenth, USC week trying to
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  Speaker 1: get to a bowl game week. But it seems like
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  Speaker 1: it has been the past several weeks and hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: is the last one of those that we have. We
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  Speaker 1: must make a bowl game. That was the first thing
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  Speaker 1: I writ wrote down in my notes, and I capitalized
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  Speaker 1: must and I circled it. I. I don't know when
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  Speaker 1: that's going to happen, but if we don't, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be good. And the word must, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's very, very, very important. I guess for everyone, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see what it's like if we don't.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is we're probably not favored in any
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  Speaker 1: of these games, maybe the Wisconsin game at home, like
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  Speaker 1: we've said last couple episodes, but it it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a challenge to get to our sixth to win again.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're talking losing seventh straight and or sixth
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  Speaker 1: straight and not making a bowl game in Mattrurle's second year, like.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, yeah, that's tough tough to swallow, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you were favored at a chunk of those games.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't wasn't that number one coming in the season. On
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  Speaker 3: all of our list of goals of seasons, make a
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  Speaker 3: bowl game.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I mean that was the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I unfortunately, because this is what we do, brush
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  Speaker 1: off the fact that we're gonna make a bowl game
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  Speaker 1: or win till seven and a half, like we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: win nine, we're gonna win ten. We started off, however,
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  Speaker 1: we started off and it was, oh my gosh, look
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  Speaker 1: at us like this. We could we could run the
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  Speaker 1: table like I don't sure if anybody believed that, but
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  Speaker 1: that was the talk. And when you go back and
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  Speaker 1: look at how we talked about the most important games
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  Speaker 1: entering the year, and we referenced that a lot. That
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  Speaker 1: was to me why these earlier games were a lot
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  Speaker 1: more important than these later ones. But now since we
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  Speaker 1: didn't win those games, that flips the script and now
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  Speaker 1: these games all become very very very very very very
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  Speaker 1: important for I guess the future of where this is
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  Speaker 1: going with the rule. I'm not saying it's going to
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  Speaker 1: end it. I don't think anybody necessarily thinks that, but
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna put a lot of doubt, more doubt than
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  Speaker 1: there is already in that doubt. Let's be real, as
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  Speaker 1: crept in what the last three weeks go. Two weeks, well, see,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Indiana there was a little bit of doubt, I agree,
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  Speaker 1: but then Ohio State was like, I'm not just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt now that that was a fluke. But
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  Speaker 1: then we saw it again against a team that maybe
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as good as Indiana. Hard to know, but that's
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  Speaker 1: where the program's at, and for us to make a
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  Speaker 1: bowl game is going to really, I think give people
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of hope again in in coach rule
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  Speaker 1: and the way that he's leading the program right now.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? It's just crazy. It's crazy that we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, like even if we are favored or
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  Speaker 2: close to favor against Wisconsin, if we go into that
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  Speaker 2: game and we lose this game, you know.
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  Speaker 4: That that pressure is gonna be building.
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  Speaker 2: Like at home against Wisconsin, the home crowd is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be just ready to break, like not necessarily of joy.
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  Speaker 2: But if it starts going south at all against Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: you're losing the home crowd, I guarantee it. Like there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be no energy, it's supposed to be crappy weather,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, you go in Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, shit, if you don't win this game,
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  Speaker 2: we don't go to a bowl game.
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  Speaker 4: And it's we just we need to just do it
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  Speaker 4: to get it off off our back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I honestly think that the pressure will help
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  Speaker 2: go away.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it would just help a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the problem. We had our chance to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I know, areagainst more beatable teams. Not saying that these
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  Speaker 1: three aren't winnable, but we had our chances and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: I Making a ball games huge too, though, but it's
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  Speaker 3: more you gotta at least look competitive. Two in these
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  Speaker 3: games you could easily get blown out, and two of
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  Speaker 3: them in Wisconsin don't think you get blown out. But
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  Speaker 3: these usc in Iowa, I think you can get blown out.
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  Speaker 4: It blown out by Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: I mean blown out in like a fourteen to three
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  Speaker 1: just Iowa. Iowa scored. They beat some teams. Iowa's beat
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  Speaker 1: some teams forty one to ten this year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they they've shown to do something a little more than
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  Speaker 1: what they have Dak. I guess I'm gonna ask all
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  Speaker 1: three of you guys, or two of you and me
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  Speaker 1: right now. November thirteenth, twenty twenty four, were what one
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  Speaker 1: in three four seasons into the Matt rule? Is Matt
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  Speaker 1: rule here for five plus years? Right now?
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  Speaker 2: See this year would be two, so you're saying, will
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  Speaker 2: he be here three more years?
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  Speaker 4: Basically I am.
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  Speaker 1: Going to take a vote.
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  Speaker 4: And I chew on this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean coaches to just do not last five years.
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  Speaker 3: But especially here, the fans are not patient right now.
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  Speaker 1: The word patient is hard because you hear that word
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  Speaker 1: thrown around with coaches a lot, but with and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not just saying the coaching environment, the transfer portal, NI
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  Speaker 1: l that this longevity patience thing, like you said, Austin
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  Speaker 1: is it's hard to stay somewhere for a long time. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It just so fast paced. Everything about the entire college
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  Speaker 1: football industry. It's fast paced. So while coaches are always
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  Speaker 1: gonna argue and say you got to give me time.
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  Speaker 1: I need time to implement what I want. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is you're gonna see people like Kurt Signetti. That's gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen more and more and more, and kurtse Signetti's is like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need time, kurtse Signetti said in the press conference.
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  Speaker 1: And we thought it was gonna be a target on
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  Speaker 1: your back laughable, like you're gonna get your ass kicking.
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  Speaker 1: The score ran up on your comment, yep, and he's
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  Speaker 1: like no, Like, we're gonna win now because I'm bringing
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  Speaker 1: in some guy and we got some pieces from last
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  Speaker 1: year and we're gonna win. And they're doing it now.
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  Speaker 1: Their schedule hasn't been the toughest with the toughest, but
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  Speaker 1: like that's gonna happen more and more now with the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal rule. Obviously didn't come from a college program.
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  Speaker 1: I get that, but it's gonna give that alternative option
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  Speaker 1: to say it's there. So back to the question, it
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  Speaker 1: could be wrong, yes or no, what we'll be here
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  Speaker 1: in five years or three and a half years.
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  Speaker 2: My gut reaction right now, three more years. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like he's for sure getting a third year. We're not
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  Speaker 2: firing him at his off season, even if we don't
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  Speaker 2: make a bowl game. For sure getting a third year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess he's not here at the end of
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  Speaker 2: year five, for sure. I feel good about saying that.
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  Speaker 3: That's the difference is prosce You could tell how long
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  Speaker 3: is frost? Your four years fine a half? Her five years?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can tell.
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  Speaker 3: You could tell by this point already you were starting
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  Speaker 3: to like his teams were not false false.
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  Speaker 1: By two years in we.
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  Speaker 4: Were the greatest three and nine team to ever exist.
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  Speaker 1: In year three, the COVID years kind of funky too,
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  Speaker 1: I could tell her.
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  Speaker 3: I always thought, I said, year two, frosting out the guy.
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  Speaker 3: No you did not, Yes I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know where you could find the state back, Yes
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  Speaker 3: I did. After you lost Indiana. I remember it year two.
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  Speaker 3: I said it.
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  Speaker 1: It was pre COVID. So I will say, like I
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  Speaker 1: would say, some people did jump on it earlier than later.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a reason why he lasted as long as
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  Speaker 1: he did. There was that hope, there was that patience
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  Speaker 1: of what it happened. And then he went through the
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  Speaker 1: whole offensive system change that once again like reset everything
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  Speaker 1: kind of gave him another reset rule.
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  Speaker 4: Already burned that one up.
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  Speaker 1: Was he burned it up. But like remember, Frost was
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  Speaker 1: like forced to do it, if you remember, like he remember,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't make it really on his own. He was
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  Speaker 1: forced to give the play calling duties up out of
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  Speaker 1: his hand. Rules doing that now already, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's we've talked about it. On Monday. It's smart. It's
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  Speaker 1: a very political move right now that you know what
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  Speaker 1: rules saying, if things weren't going to get better and
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  Speaker 1: if we can't figure out this offensive thing now, then
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  Speaker 1: it's really probably not going to work out here in
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  Speaker 1: the long term and has nothing. It is not a
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  Speaker 1: good fit. Like it's not gonna happen. And he even
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  Speaker 1: said like he's not the most aggressive, he's very conservative,
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  Speaker 1: and his style or whatever he thought he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do was not working, and we all saw that happen.
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  Speaker 1: So Austin says, no, Dak, we're still going back to
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  Speaker 1: this question. I really just wanted to yes or no,
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  Speaker 1: but yes, so I got to break the tie.
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  Speaker 2: As are reconsidering, because when you say five plus years,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying he's gonna make it through four years and
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  Speaker 2: then that fifth year, I don't know if he would be.
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  Speaker 4: There at the end of the fifth year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the fine way to look at it. See,
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  Speaker 1: I'm why I said it five years. I'm I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say no.
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  Speaker 2: I think he either doesn't work, so we know it
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  Speaker 2: didn't work this year, next year if he somehow pulls
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  Speaker 2: it out and it's an incredible year, and he has
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  Speaker 2: two incredible years he.
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  Speaker 4: Could leave.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So many ways in which he's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's crazy that we're talking about this and
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  Speaker 1: and and we are a year and nine games in
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  Speaker 1: the rules tenure here, and this wasn't even a thought
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  Speaker 1: of conversation three weeks ago. And it's funny how it
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  Speaker 1: has been a topic of conversation now. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: he's getting fired. I don't think that's okay. I don't,
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  Speaker 1: but just from a longevity standpoint, and just his tone,
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  Speaker 1: his tone is shifted in the press conference, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's good. Like I think it's promising that he is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's already having that like defeated all right,
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  Speaker 1: Like I gotta ask for help, like I got we
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  Speaker 1: got to figure this out, because I think he knows,
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  Speaker 1: back to the very first comment I made, he knows
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  Speaker 1: that we must make a bowl game this year. So
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  Speaker 1: what I want to go through before we dive deeper
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  Speaker 1: into USC we have three games left. We like to
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  Speaker 1: do a little expectation level setting every three ish games.
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  Speaker 1: We did one the beginning of the year where our
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  Speaker 1: heads are at gave our predictions and about every three games,
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  Speaker 1: we go back and really reset your expectation, because, as
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  Speaker 1: we all know, if your expectations are that we should
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  Speaker 1: be winning a national title, then you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: extremely disappointed with how this year went. If your expectation
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  Speaker 1: was to make a bowl game and we happen to
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  Speaker 1: make a bowl game, then you should be satisfied. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody's expectation is probably lower than make a
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  Speaker 1: bowl game this year. So if we don't do that,
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  Speaker 1: we're probably all not going to be satisfied. But I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important to say, Okay, where's where do we
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  Speaker 1: have left? And can we agree, Like, let's go down
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  Speaker 1: these two paths before we talk about our expectations. There's
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  Speaker 1: a best case in the worst case scenario right now.
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  Speaker 1: Worst case scenario, like Dak said, we get blown out
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  Speaker 1: by two of the three games left, we do end
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  Speaker 1: up going zero to three, we end up going five
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  Speaker 1: and seven, We don't make a bowl game. Holgerson's offense
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  Speaker 1: does not improve anything at all. Our defense continues to
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  Speaker 1: have its ups and downs and not be consistent. Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Royola says, I don't know about this place. I think
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  Speaker 1: all that is very possible that could happen. That's not
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  Speaker 1: like a that's not an unreasonable scenario to speak.
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  Speaker 4: That's bleak.
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  Speaker 1: It's bleak, But I don't think it's unfortunately. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's like. I don't think it's not. It's very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very possible. The other side of that.
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  Speaker 3: That's about rock bottom. I don't think you get any
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  Speaker 3: lower in that one.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find a way, I'm sure the flip side of that.
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  Speaker 1: On the on the high end, you win three games, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now we're seven and how we're eight and four?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: What are we? Yeah? Eight and four? You actually hit
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  Speaker 1: the win total over for the first time, and who
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  Speaker 1: knows how long might be right, the offense is all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden like has a fresh new look and
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  Speaker 1: teams are struggling to defend it. I'm including the likes
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  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin and Iowa. You know, go to a bowl
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  Speaker 1: game and hopefully you win that. I also think that's
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  Speaker 1: possible too. I don't think that's as likely, but it's
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  Speaker 1: in the realm of possibilit It's not like we have
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State left in our schedule, which we almost beat,
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  Speaker 1: but to to face so like, there's a wider range
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  Speaker 1: of outcomes and it makes these last three games so
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  Speaker 1: much fun to think about and and play out the scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: So given that is our scale, basically anything could happen.
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  Speaker 1: Dak Where where's your head? Like, how do you think
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  Speaker 1: this is going to play out? Because there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of unknowns. You have the new cod the new coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: the new helpers, you have the all the talk about
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  Speaker 1: the players, you have no idea where the players And
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  Speaker 1: we didn't hear from anybody this week, coming up a
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  Speaker 1: bye week after probably one of the worst losses, one
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  Speaker 1: of that we've seen in recent years, Like where where
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  Speaker 1: Where's where are we going?
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got another ranking question said later I was
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  Speaker 3: gonna bring up anyway. I think it goes you win
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  Speaker 3: one out of three. I think you beat Wisconsin. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I think this week can be a lot
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  Speaker 3: closer when people the spreend stuff are saying, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you beat USC and then you lose the
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  Speaker 3: ISEL at the end of year. So I think you
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  Speaker 3: go six and six.
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  Speaker 1: Talk me through the emotions of people like, oh, get
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  Speaker 1: a little get a little more detailed, like I like,
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  Speaker 1: I like the prediction, but give me a little more juice.
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  Speaker 1: Behind it.
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  Speaker 3: Well you lose this week, everybody freaks out because because
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  Speaker 3: they think, well, it's the same things last year, and well,
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  Speaker 3: it depends on okay, first off, depends on how your
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  Speaker 3: offense looks, if your offense looks better.
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  Speaker 1: Not depend on how do you think our offense is
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  Speaker 1: gonna look?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think I think the offense will look a
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  Speaker 3: lot better because I don't think you get any worse.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, I I think thanks Sad, if it
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  Speaker 3: was your main problem, you got rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't know if.
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  Speaker 3: You have the skill players around to make it that
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  Speaker 3: much better. But I think Holgerson will bring a new
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  Speaker 3: fresh look and it'll be better because you can't get
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  Speaker 3: much worse. I saw they gonna score twenty points to
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  Speaker 3: since September or over over twenty points since since September.
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  Speaker 1: So you think offense is gonna look better, But we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna lose against the USC and we're still gonna be upset. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Think as upset because because you start to see signs
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  Speaker 3: of your offensive proving and then you beat you beat Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 3: so everybody's going nuts, braids in the streets. Whatever. You
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  Speaker 3: made a bowl game shooting and cannon's off going whatever.
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  Speaker 1: We still on the field? No, yes? Or yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying yes, yes, you get a gatorade bath?
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  Speaker 1: Yes or no?
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  Speaker 3: Because what it's Yes, it's been seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the field? I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I think Wisconsin's awful. But yeah, you're still on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And then did the goalposts come down?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 3: Now here's a question. Would you guys be embarrassed that
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  Speaker 3: they storm the field?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to. Yes, I don't. I would not
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  Speaker 1: want to storm in the field. Okay, so storm in
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  Speaker 1: the field beat Wisconsin. We go to Iowa black Friday.
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  Speaker 3: First off, it's gonna be one of the worst. I
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  Speaker 3: hate that hate that game because I hate just watching
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  Speaker 3: Iowa anyway. I think Iowa beats you like normally do what,
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  Speaker 3: let's say seventeen thirteen. It's just a terrible game to watch.
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  Speaker 3: A they bring into their own style game your offense.
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  Speaker 3: How do we feel you feel coming out of that game?
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  Speaker 3: You feel good? You feel great because that's what your
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  Speaker 3: goal was season, to make a ball game. I think
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  Speaker 3: the only thing fans are looking for now is make
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  Speaker 3: a ball game in their offense. There's two things you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for make a ball game and your offense to
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  Speaker 3: improve since a field's gone for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's that simple, all right. That's the two
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  Speaker 1: things we gotta do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and your defense you'd like to get a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more steady. Like you, you're not too worried about
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  Speaker 3: your defense at all. But that's two things right there.
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  Speaker 3: That's all you're worried about.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, oh, go ahead, keep going.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I think at the Iowa game, I think because I
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  Speaker 3: you're offending and look that good against Iowa. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: It never does, but people are still happy. A little
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  Speaker 3: bit more worried, but you're going to ball game, So
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  Speaker 3: there you go, and you're still can't the goal post
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  Speaker 3: with you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Happy's a touchy word. I don't know if the happies
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: are right word, but satisfied better.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll be able to follow Dak
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: with the same level of conciseness and understanding of what
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: he wants out of this, but I'll try my best
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: follow that up. Okay, So here's what's gonna happen. We're
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: gonna go California. We're gonna play usc really tight. Heinri
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Cardberg is gonna be our starting quarterback. Delan Riola does
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: not play, or if he does play, he's gonna be
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: very short and Heider's gonna play more most of the snaps.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: So now, all of a sudden, we lose a closer
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: game to usc defense blows last drive. People are upset,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: but it's like, okay, well, Dilan Roola didn't play, you
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: give Everyone feels okay because there's a competitive game without
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Dilan Roland.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: But people are still upset.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: So starting to see the light at the end of
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the tunnel of oh shit, we don't beat Wisconsin or Iowa,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: we're not making the Bowl game. Wisconsin comes around home game,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Dylan roy Old is coming back, he's healthy. We do
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: pull off the victory against Wisconsin in a cold afternoon.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: People are happy. I think expectations have been reset to
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: if we can.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Win one of these games where it's more relief than
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: it is happiness. There's still some questions about oftensive play calling.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: It's not a pretty game. We can almost shoot ourselves
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: on the foot, but we actually kind of win a
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: one to our game, so it's like, all right, maybe
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: we're on the right path, and then we go to
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Iowa and we get absolutely slaughtered and the tides turn.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Everyone's like, okay, if rule dosn't get a shit together
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: next year, I don't care that we made a bowl game.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: We're we're getting rid of him after if he doesn't,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: if if it doesn't work out next year, if he's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: not seven and five next year.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: What's like that? Not that we put a win total
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: on it, but what does the season have to look
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: like next year?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: It has to be better than five hundred okay with
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: one signature win. And then we go to our bowl
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: game and we barely win a bowl game against an
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Okay team, and now people are like, well maybe maybe okay,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and then we go to next year.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: That's how it's gonna go.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: So I'm like a merge between the two kind of.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But then I also have my own twist to it. USC.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna predict our offense is gonna look better. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: don't know what better looks like. I don't really know, like.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: It'll look different.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: It's gonna look different in a good way, and it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: gonna I do. I think it's gonna be hard for
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: USC to prepare for because it's just it's gonna have
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it's gonna have so many weird pieces too. There's gonna
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: be a blend of what we still do now, Like
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that's not all gonna go away, but you know, like
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Holderson's coming in with new concepts that he's installing that
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: like we maybe already kind of have in or don't,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and but they wan't want to make him like how
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: he's familiar. There's gonna be a lot of merging stuff.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So offense is gonna look better. And I think our
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: offense is gonna play so well that we should win
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the game, but we don't because our defense isn't play
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna go back down that path.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: So I don't.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I just don't think we defend running quarterbacks very well.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And I think US has a lot of talented athletes.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I agree. So we're gonna get to usc detailed more here.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: We're gonna lose a close one, but not because of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: our offense. We're gonna go to play Wis Compson and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, our offense might play a little
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: bit better about the same defense might play better, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: we're gonna lose the game again because our special team
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: sucks again. Or I don't know if we turn it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: over like three times this game now, like we're gonna
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: we're just gonna do something that we lose the game,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: because that we just lose the game, and then when
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: that happens, I do think the Iowa game is just
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: gonna to be not good. I'm just not getting myself
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to think that we're gonna win any of these games.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I don't. I hope we do, but we need to,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: we must, even for myself, my sanity. But I don't
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: know that we will get this twist or five and seven.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Guess whose academics are going to be really well, oh,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: here we go. Yep. We'll get offered to play in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: one of the fifty eight bowl games that are now.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: They aren't how many there are, but there's a lot.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: The Duke's Mayo Bowl against another five and seven academic team, Oklahoma,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and we're going in the Duke's Mayo Bowl five and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: seven vers five and seven. I don't know people are
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: gonna feel about that. That's my really oddly specific prediction.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: But do you think you acceptable bowl in life for
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: five and seven us?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yep?
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: That was the dumbest thing for us, that it was
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: one of the things.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard, and people are gonna there's gonna
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: be a ton of people talking about we shouldn't, we
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: don't deserve it, this is wrong. You should get six.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: There's gonna be some But if you don't, If you don't,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you are making such a sacrifice a practice time of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: another chance to play. That basically tells you that you're
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: giving up on this season and it's over. And people,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: some people are gonna say you should because it was
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: embarrassing how we finished. But I mean, in all all fairness,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: like going oh and three or going one and two
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: maybe the most likely scenario, but oh and three is
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: probably next, and so just be ready for that conversation.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And I have no idea where we're at academically to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: be in that standing. I don't have a clue. Minnesota
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: beat us to it last year, so and I think
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: there's only one slot, so I don't know. I just
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: thought that'd be kind of a funny way to end it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: But it is. There's three games left, and it's fascinating
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: because it's all over the place of what could happen.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Nobody has a clue. We're obviously not favored any game.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I do think the line is nine is interesting this week.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It just stinks for some reason to me, Like I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: felt like it should be this is bad. It should
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: be like five and a half six because of all
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the unknowns. But I mean, if there's that nine is
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: telling you there's a chance it could be a twenty
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: point game, and I don't think that would make I mean,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: if it's a twenty point game, that means our offense
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't look that much better. So anyways, that kind of fun.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do that here before we got into
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: USC because I think that's where everybody's minds. It's as
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a fan, as media, it's hard to focus one game
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: at a time. The players and coaching staff better be
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, like that better be number one priority.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And if they're looking at the last games is a chunk,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: then we're in a bunch of trouble. But it's easy
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to look at stuff in chunks as fans and and that,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and that's what we like to do. And and you
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: do get ahead of yourself a little bit because things
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: change every week, especially this year in college football. Any
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: other expectations stops the rest of the year.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was so, I was gonna ask you guys here,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: so rank your next three opponents of easiest, the toughest,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: and then one of three year best shot you think
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: of winning.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Let me say Wyoming, usc Io, Wyoming.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't even.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Wisconsin. Yikes.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I say Wisconsin only because it's at home. The other
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: two I think ericas up any you think that's your
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: best chance. I'll throw a USC ahead of Iowa only
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: because if we're zero and two going into Iowa.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Pressure's gonna be tough.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: We had a bye week, yeah, by week to prepare
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: for usc they're switching their quarterback.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We have the element of surprise. They do a little
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: bit too, but we have a big Eleminger, which I
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: think can only help us.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I hope, Yeah, that's I mean, that's howesting I think
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: you're You're by far best shot I think is Wisconsin,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: just because at home. I don't think they're that good.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I thought they were getting better. But I mean, we'll
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: talk about the next week.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But I mean, unfortunately, that's it was. It used to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: be you Ucla. That was the one game that everyone's like, Okay,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: if we can't beat Ucla, we might not go to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a bowl game. Now it's if we can't beat Wisconsin,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: We're probably not going to go to a bowl game.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Like that's the mindset of again, fans and media. It
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: can't be in the players minds. I just am a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: little bit scared that it is. And it takes a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: really good, just i don't know, closed door type culture mindset,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: head coach leaders in the locker room to not let
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that thought get to you and add that build up,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that added pressure, which we've seen time and time and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: time again.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what scares me is now USC game.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: But hey, they beat Iowa. Everything's good now.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So USC, I know what we're talking about. Nebraska's state
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of unknown right now and everything that's gone on in
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the last two weeks. USC is not like in a
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: great spot either. I think Lincoln Riley is, as Dak
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: has kind of hinted at all year, it's been a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: little bit on the warm seat for his head coaching position.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: He's a good head coach, I think, but it's not
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: really working out at USC the way that they probably
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: wanted it to. I mean, they're sitting at four and five,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: so we're regardless, you know, opponents and all that. Like
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: they're they still need two wins to get to a
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Bowl game too. And Miller Moss they're starting quarterback who
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: had some question marks but was talked about is maybe
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: even a Heisman dark horse coming into the year. I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: guess Rayolos too, Uh, he's not going to be starting
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And they're bringing in the un l V
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: transferred Jade Maeva in a quarterback who is going to
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: be more of a runner, which is more than what
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Miller Moss had. He has not played though much, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: he has not really played strong defenses. Maya has not
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: compared to what he's probably seen at un l V
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and then a few games he's gotten in this year.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: So I think that it's important to keep in mind,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: like maybe we're in turmoil, but you see your USC
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: is a little bit in desperation mode now too. We're
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: not living that. I haven't watched him in the USC games,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: have either of you guys? No, I don't think I've
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: watched a second.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: I take that back, LSU watch the whole game other
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: than Matt, not a second.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: So it's hard to know like where their heads are at.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: We obviously have a little more to prepare for and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: really been mentioned we're watching unlv film to get used
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to this quarterback a little bit, but they're their offense
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: is going to be dominated by athletes if they can
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: get going, and they have shown at times to do
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a good job that. Lincoln Riley has shown as a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: coach to do a good job of that with his quarterbacks.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: With his receivers Xeon Branch and mkayle Lemon are there too,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: like go to receivers. They got mentioned my quarterback, Woody
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Marks will be their their lead running back. That's the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: scary part is if they get going in this offense,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: looks like they can just one on one be more
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: athletic and better players than us. This could get into
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty point range. But the hope and the promise
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: is that Ohio State had one of the most talented
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: athletic freaks. From a receiver standpoint two running backs. I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: would say their quarterback was like Will Howard is just
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he's an average quarterback. We don't know what Maava has,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: but we saw what happened with that game. We did
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a pretty bang good job of competing with them on
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. So I think that's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: important to No Dak. You have Lincoln Riley's record at
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: US he's twenty three and thirteen and it's head coaching
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: ten ary, seventy eight and twenty three overall. That tells you,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I think again he's he's a good coach. Like I know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Dak doesn't like him because of Oklahoma.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Dak also said that he would take him back. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I'll heartbeat several times. You literally said that last week
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: on the pod. You're gonna be like, don't you don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: only when I said that, you said it on the pod.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And you said it several times when we were at
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the Missouri Oklahoma the trip.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe I would. Can we talk about what trouble
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: he's in? Real quick? Go ahead, it's hilarious. So they
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: got in probation today, did you guys hear?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: No, they had too many coaches on their staff in
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty two.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Wow. Then the analyst thing that a lot of coaches
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: got ding done.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which say so they got fifty thousand dollars,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: fine and win your information, which I don't do use
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: lose scholarships.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Don't know what that means.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: But anyway, they say Lincoln Rally doesn't know anything about it.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: How how do you not know? You have too many
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: half I don't know. But anyway, boy, that really helped
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: you out there, Lincoln, didn't it. Maybe you should ask
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: some more coaches. That's all right, that's like i'd say, yeah,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I was dying.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It's legal now. Like the more I just hear about
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff, and especially now like this
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: week with our people that we brought on and then
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the Connor Stallion stuff that went on, I don't think
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: people know, and even us who all follow college football
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: very closely, I don't think we really know the depths
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: of how many people are out there working or a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: program in any capacity. Like Roll mentioned out, some of
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: these guys that are you know, are basically like scouts
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: or their NFL scouts he has, Like, I don't think
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: we know. I'm throwing out a number. There could be
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: thirty people like outdoing stuff on at some capacity for Nebraska,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Like it could be anything, right, I think all these
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: big programs, it's a big circle. It's a bit in
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that Connor Stallion's documentary, It's phenomenal like it it hints
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: at that too, like you get a sense of how
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: big this coaching called a coaching circle, but just the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the brains behind the operations of every program, so like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that it's not doesn't like that stuff doesn't surprise me.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And that's why they probably opened it up because it's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: it is. It's instead of being this dark underground system, right,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: it's like why we need to make it underground system?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Like why not? Just like it is what it is.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be helping people, so like utilize it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's yeah, it's It's one of those things.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone as a fan cares like, oh,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: you got it's.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: A cheating scandal, but it's not.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: It's not something that you feel is going to directly
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: impact the product on the field as much as other
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: forms of cheating, especially with how it is how it's
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: traded now, like you know, like you said, we brought
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: in Dana Holgers in two weeks ago as an analyst
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: and now he's the offensive coordinator and no one lost
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: a job, you know, like it doesn't matter anymore.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: That's whil they got rid of the rule.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: The Connor Stallion stuff was that might have a little
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: more impact on what's going on in the field, but
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: everyone was doing it and they're the ones who got
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: caught kind of energy as well.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: So I don't know what's the point.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: It's basically just they broke a rule nobody cares about.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So they classed them on the wrist.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, someone tipped them off and they just had do
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: something about it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Last thing I guess that we're gonna see I guess
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: from USC and then our offense that we haven't mentioned yet,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be tempo.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be tempo, and their quarterback is gonna run,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: which I think we're not gonna do well against that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, we just truckle effect when there's that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: dual threat, and sometimes they're not even supposed to be
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: dual threat and we make them dual threat. Luke Altmeyer
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: aka uh.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Who is the quarterback for Indiana?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Uh space cop or something like that. Also Ethan Garber's
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: last work. Like, they all just seem to get more
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: rushing yards than they usually do against us. So that's
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge I think, to scheme for defensively,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: like I said, and if we can, if we can
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: hit him a few times and maybe get him a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: little bit impatient in the pocket to where we can
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: say okay, like he's gonna start running and we can
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: just now scheme for that better and we're not asked
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: worried about the passing game, and it kind of takes
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: away some of those playmakers we mentioned earlier in Lemon
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and Branch and Lane. That helps us out a ton.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I think the start of this game is so so, so,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: so so so important because if it if it's unpredictable,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and I mean, let's look at some of these games
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the way they've gone, the ones that we've lost, the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: u c l A Indiana Illinois, Like what's happened on
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: these first drives, Like it's scary. It sets the tone
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: for how the game could go anything else. Offense.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I guess my only thing is I just don't know
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: why they're making the switch, which makes me wonder what's
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: going on because Moss wasn't bad by any means. I
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: don't know if maybe they're looking for that more dynamic aspect,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: but I mean Moss was He had like eighteen touchdowns,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: nine interceptions, Like that's.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Not from what I've heard, like it people watching it's
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: talking about him. He has not been playing quotable, but
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: it could be a sick I mean, it's funny flipping around.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: You think USC is going, what in the hell, why
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: is Nebraska changing coordinators? Are five and four? Right? What what?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Go look at the schedules.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: You look at the spores right. That's the other thing
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: is like they're they're still scoring. You know, USC they
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: lost last week twenty one to six, but they put
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: up forty two on Ruckers, twenty eight on Maryland, thirty
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: on Penn State, bad week against Minnesota, thirty eight against Wisconsin,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: forty eight against Utustic. Like, you know, they're putting up points.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: So it does either it makes me scared that Moss
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: is They're just like, we can't keep this guy on
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the bench, Like this dude's the dude Like.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Sorry, ma, yes I have his name.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: That's what worries me, is like they might just be like, yeah,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: this guy is a freaking baller and loss hasn't played bad,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: but he's lost the starting job because this guy is
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: absolutely killing it in practice.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: I think they had the thoughts on the practice, but
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: I think there is a little more to it. I
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: think Lincoln Ridley likes a dual threat quarterback better. He's
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: always he's always performed better with dual threats. I mean,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: you look back at Hurts, Kyler Baker, Baker can move.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: I can't think of Okay, Caleb Williams, they.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: All could move. Did that just hurt you to say
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: out loud?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah? They're running back averages five point seven yards of carry.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: So I just I'm a little confused. I don't know
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: if they think it's so. I'm worried that he's just
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: gonna be really freaking good. It's not like, oh, we
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: need someone who can move the ball because the run
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: game's not working or our past game is not working.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: I wish I watched more USC because I don't know
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: why they changed either from the stats wise, and I
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: read it was because he was too inaccurate stati wise.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I didn't see that. I so I didn't watch any
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: of them. I don't know, but he looked great.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: A into the LSU other side of the ball here
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: you mentioned they're scoring points and their problem I guess
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: once again this year has been on the defensive side
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: of the ball.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley brings Alex Grinch with him. First year last
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: year was I mean it was a true yeah, buddy.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I will say Grinch, though, has had good defenses, like
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: in the past. He had a couple of decent ones.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: So it's not like Sadderfield, you know, who didn't have
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: a much of a resume. But they got rid of
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: him after uh is it first year? Right? Got rid
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: of hm after one year? Yeah? There stoo years.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I think it was halfway through last year you got so.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: The guy they bring in is the defensive coordinator for
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: U c l A who kept U c l A
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: in a lot of games last year, Dantne Lynn. He
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: runs a base three four. They still have not been
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: great though, at stopping opponents, specifically in the passing game.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I think the one stat here to mention is opposing
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: teams are passing the highest completion percentage than any other
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: team in the conference in the conference. So how that
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: plays into what we decided to do this week, I
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: don't know. Now, Austin, We're going back to it and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: forget your prediction is the Heinrich Harberg will be starting
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: and playing and Dylan Royola will not play. I will
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: say this, not of you saw Roola was listed as
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the first on the depth chart and it was not
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: a release. But that obviously does not mean anything. I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: mean that things could change. Yeah, I guess talk about that.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I just I thought it was honestly more that
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: coach smoke. Where's hey, Dylan's gonna be back? But really
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: he's not. I mean, I guess he does have an
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: extra bye week, but I will expect that we see
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: more Heinrich regardless of Dylan starts. They're bad against the pass,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: which I obviously that benefits Dylan. We brought in an
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator who calls more passing plays, which should also
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: benefit Dylan.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: But I just.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I I think if Heinrich starts, I'm not gonna say
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: it helps us, but it's just a different fold to
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the offense that we've kind of been missing that if
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Dylan's not one hundred percent, I'd rather have one hundred percent.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Capable quarterback than like a seventy percent Riola.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think against against USC, I think you definitely
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: not right a lot to play. Like you said, their
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: past defense is terror it's pretty bad.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I don't. I think.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I think if be able to move the ball into
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: the defense, it's better than it was, but it's still
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: not great. I mean, lincol Riley can never have a
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: good defense, but yeah, you'll be able to move the
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: ball on them. Another another thing I was thinking about
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: is when it was the last time you can think
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: of that you went into a game you have zero clout.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Either offense is gonna look like you don't know how
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: either one.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Is a quarterback. It's your quarterback is going to be
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: you don't. I guess I'm the opposite of Austin where
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I think that I don't think Ryola was ever hurt
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and maybe like bruised. I just don't. I don't think
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that he ever had anything seriously wrong with him, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I think he'll be obviously back in playing. I do
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: think that Heinrich probably is gonna somehow fight his way
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: on the field in different packages. I think Rule said
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: it though, like one of their flaws, and you heard
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it as he talked this year leading into this year
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: and then especially early on this year when we were winning,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: about getting this guy touched, this guy touched, this guy touch.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: We're trying to get this guy, you know. He he
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: he tried to talk up all these players, not tried
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: to he did talk up all these players, and then
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: therefore tried to get them all involved in the offense.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: And it just got to be so much versus just
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: saying no like, this is what we're gonna do to
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: win games, and I don't really care how it happens.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I think Heinrich is one that I think they tried
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: to get in touches and it just I don't know.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: It seems like it came in all sports has all
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: been so random, and I don't know if it's helped
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: as much, and so like maybe it is a drive
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: where he is totally the quarterback for the entire possession
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: and it's a little bit schemed differently. I think the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: offense is gonna, like we've mentioned, to look differently, but
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: we just don't know how. We just we don't have
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: an idea of what it could be. You know, you
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: hope you see more creativity and unpredictability, I guess is
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. And I hope those two things
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: alone may lead to guys being more white open and
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: not because they're doing anything much different with their footwork
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: or but it's just a scheme is a little bit
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: more creative and confusing to prepare for. You have time
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: to do that, like, there's time to put that in.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: It's hard to know, though, because we're not gonna be
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: able to execute it much at all before we play
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: probably the biggest game of the year so far, so
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: all that lumped in. I just I don't know, Like
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you Deck you said, you just don't know what it's
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: gonna You don't know what it's gonna look like. You
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: have no idea, which makes it so much fun to
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: watch as a fan because you don't have an idea,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: and normally we can make a prediction. I just hope
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: that points speak for themselves in a positive way versus Oh,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: things looked better, like but we only scored fourteen, but
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: they looked better, They looked more creative, It looked like
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: we had something going Like I don't. I don't want
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: to be sitting here on Sunday talking about how we
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: thought our offense looked better, but we lost thirty four
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to twenty or thirty four to fourteen seventeen because we
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: didn't play well. Like I that just would not be fun.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: But it's gonna happen. Yeah, that's that's kind of how
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna go for you. So and then
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you guys, are you guys hoping for the air raid?
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not hoping for for a successful offense.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what I just don't know
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: what that is. I I don't know that anybody knows
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: what that is. I don't think the coaching staff knows
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: what that is. That's why they hired Rand another outsider,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Like that's the reason why it happened, because they didn't
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: know either. And again I don't I don't like to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: use the word incompetent, but I just don't know if
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the staff really knew, Like world didn't know. He's like,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I'm gonna bring in
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: a guy. Here's the other scenario, kind of tying it
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: back into our real future conversation that I don't know
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: if it's across your guys's mind. But Jackson texted media
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: last night. He goes, I can't wait for when we
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: beat USC and everyone talks about how we want Dana
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: as our head coach in the future.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: I actually did think about the other day, say say
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: he comes down just rocksy next three games.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, seriously, what if it comes down
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to Yeah, it's really it's really good, so good to
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the fact that, I mean, let's be let's be real.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: If we win these last three games, and because our
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: offense looks better and our defense just holds to being
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: what they have been.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: He is gonna be a head coach somewhere else.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, someone's gonna try to take him. So the talk
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: after the season is gonna be what do if he's
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: gonna leave? Why don't we keep him? Instead of rule like,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be the time, happy will that will be
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: what happens. So it's just funny to think about if
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: things go well because our offense goes well, it's weird.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I appreciate Jackson's optimism that, you know, when we go
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: out and beat USC because our offense rolls him. But
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of us on this podcast or
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: in Nebraska need to worry about that.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Uh So, score predictions and then we'll go to Dax pics.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Twenty seven twenty four USC.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Let's go thirty four to twenty USC. No, hold, that'll
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: be it ties in my picks, So twenty seven to
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: twenty USC. Now, what I hope happens is eight hundred
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: to zero Nebraska. I hope that Lincoln Ryan gets fired
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: after this game.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: And then we can hire him as offensive coordinator.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: I'm on here, you go right this weekend? Ready, for
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: this thirty five thirty one USC Wow, you have offense
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: roles defense. It's kind of like Illinois game. Yeah, I
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean this prediction. I very easily could
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: have convinced myself to say thirteen to ten defense plays
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: phenomenal offense, not enough time to get anything implement. It
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: still sucks. We turn it over three times, we lose it.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: I don't think us he is capable of playing thirteen
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: ten game.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: I don't think so any other.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: So then if we only score ten, that means they're
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: getting beat thirty eight to ten.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a close loss with the medium
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: level scoring or they're going to kill us.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Dak, do you give your record from last
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: week five and five. I believe we haven't done this recently,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and we didn't have it midweek podcast last week, so
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Dak didn't officially get his picks in, so you should
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: just said ten to.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we went over it though.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: You are seventy four sixty six and one, so you're
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: hitting it about about fifty two and a half percent.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: That's about pretty much close to breaking even on the money.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: And then your locks. You have a lock last week? Yeah,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I lost. I don't.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was. I probably have written
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: down here it lost. Let's see, it was army. It
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: was Army minus twenty two.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Yep, that did not happen. So yeah, you're fifty percent
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: on your on your locks as well. You started off hot,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: you're back pretty much even. You know what, it could
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: be a lot worse. You know what we're gonna do
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: next year. I'm just I'm just deciding this right now.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: You have to bet every single one of your games
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: because it'll be legal. No, like, it's gonna be legal
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: pretty close to it online and I mean it is
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: legal if you go in person. That that way you can,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: you know what, Like you can put your money where
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: your mouth is. And it's not just throwing out ten randos.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: And you know, if you only want to have two
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and only have two, if you want to have ten,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: have ten. Okay, But we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: we're gonna and you can make a unit whatever you
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: want it to make it. But if you want to
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: put more on a game because you feel confident in it,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: we can. We're gonna mix it up a little bit. Okay,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: So if you want to just end of this year,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: go ahead, but I know you're not ready for that.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: This week, no, we.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: You know what, screw it, Let's just give out five
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I'll bet, I'll bet in this week five picks.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I love this week five picks a unit, and you
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: can say, so let's go a little gambling, little little
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: sports betting talk here. Yeah, we're getting the league. It's getting.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: It's legal in Nebraska now, so we can publicly talk
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: about it here. By the way, the new new sports
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: book is open and Lincoln I have not been. I
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: haven't either. A unit can be It's basically, what if
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to play a game whatever, that's a unit.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Obviously you're more confident in a game you can go
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: two units. So let's say your unit is one dollar, right,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: if you go three units, it's three dollars. Maybe your
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: one unit play is twenty dollars. If you go two units,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: it's a forty dollars bet. Because you're more confident in it,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: we don't have to say what your units are. I
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: think Dave Portnoy's units are like ten grand is one unit,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: So that puts it into perspective a little bit. Dack,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: do you want to put a little more is twenty
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: five dollars. Yeah, you don't have to tell us that.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: The more you can. I just want to. I want
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: to hear where you're going. Where's the money going this week?
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: So see I mean tell you, like what units I've
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: put on these games? Basically?
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so i'd go one unit? What not? Not?
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: What you would? What you would? What you're going to?
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm gonna put you're doing this, yep. I
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: put one unit on.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Boy, I gotta find these five games. Let's go Tennessee
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: plus ten against Georgia.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Oh wondering.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Now, I will say I if Nico doesn't play, I
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: will know if I that bet, so that that one's
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: gonna be game time decision on that bet.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: If Nico plays, it'll be plus. Well, I will give
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: you time up until the game to put it in.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: That's one bet. If Nico doesn't play, that that BET's
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: no offied. Okay, So now it's up to if you
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: put it in though, like if you put the bet
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: and then it's in. If you don't, then it's not in.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: True okay.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: Next one one unit on James masson my three against
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: own dominion. I love you know what. Actually that's a
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: two unit game. I really liked that one a lot.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: I just know James Masson beat the dog pace o
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: North Carolina.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: So you know the manius record didn't look good. So
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: there we go another blind bet right there?
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: All right? One unit.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: On Nebraska plus nine against USC. I think nine is
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: too much, like you said it should be around I'm
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: with you a five and a half five. I don't
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: get where that nine is coming from. Maybe they think
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: this new quarterback is super good. I don't know. I
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: think the brass offense look better. It'll be like seven
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: or less point game, all right, And then let's go
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: one more unit on Illinois tow and a half against
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Michigan State. Illinois I think is a better team than
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: Michigan State. Other than that, that's it.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: There we go. What a reasoning?
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I just think Alt Myer's better than whatever the
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: hell of Michigan State is gonna roll out there. They've
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: kind of I don't know, kind's fallen off a map though,
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: since Nebraska next one last one two units on BYU
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: minus two and a half against Kansas.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: That's my lock.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: I think a lot a lot of people are bullish
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: on BYU right now because what happened last week. I
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: and Kansas is playing better, so it's a little scary.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: But I think Bayu at home can beat them by
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: three or more.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: What do you think of the ref job on that
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Utah Yu game?
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I have not slept since I've that's just been
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: pitching me no clue.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Oh are you talking about the holding in the end zone?
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: That was one of them.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: Where they said the crowd was too loud.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: I don't for sure don't know what happened that game.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: I mean I turned on TV and they're making game
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: winning kicks, so that's about all I know about it.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: But I did hear that they Utah stacked him for
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: the win and the ref said the game is too loud,
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: so they had to replay it down.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what is that what was
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: officially said? That's what I heard.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't I haven't saw a replay of it.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: All right, let's make a bowl game. Let's do it.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Shout out just cook for another great volleyball recruiting class
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: today as always.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Like clockwork and on a high note. Oh and Nebraska
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: basketball when twenty six tonight, Uh it got a little
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: bit hairy there in the second half, but almost ended
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: up covering the bread. It was almost got there, all right,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Go b grad giv r.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: I'll say go, big grand a Lank bringing the line
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: beat Lincoln Riley.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Just do wrong that