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Episode 5.17: Talent Defined and Resetting Expectations -- La Tech Preview · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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M. Turn Flory, Podcast, Hunter's Garber, Niggie, Austin Rose,
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the Code of Free Tag. Das got two pages of notes tonight. Also
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can't figure out how to turn his phone on do not disturb, so apologize
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for the buzzing. Dax's you've got two pages of notes. We better get
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through them all. So start us off with your number one talking point on
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your note card. Well, all right, I'll start us out number one.
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Here we go. Louisiana Tech coach said they are Nebraska's totally different team
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because they don't turn the ball over. Now, I won't name names,
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but Sam's maybe you just named names. Also, that's your first line on
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your note to Like, I'm prepping for this game, and you you dug
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down and you found a quote from Louisiana Tech head coach. Props to you,
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Dak, Yep. I've been looking. I'm looking for newspapers from these
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last few teams. They don't write any news about either of them. It's
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it's just you gotta dig deep. Who is Louisiana Tech's head coach? See
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if you didn't know, I didn't dig that deep. You just know their
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coach said it. I watched the clips I know it's real, but what
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did the guy look like? Honestly homeless? He did not look good,
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long hair, sunny comby. Oh that's okay. Yeah, I did read
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about him. He's a Texas tech guy. Yep. I didn't know if
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you knew that or not. I was testing your brain. I read about
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him. I just don't remember his name, honestly, don't remember after you
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said it. Well, at least we got their dack's number one point here.
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I have a few things written down here too, And the first big
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topic that I want to hit on before we preview Louisiana tech is a topic
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of fandom and just let's just dig deep like we do every year. And
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so why we do a podcast? Why we're fans of the Huskers and are
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an abusive relationship. Austin's rolling his eyes. He already knows where this is
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going. Why are we fans of sports teams? Well, here's why.
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Because we set expectations. We try to predict what's going to happen for the
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year, and then we have joy or sadness or emotion after what actually happens
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play out. So every year, you know, you go into the year,
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you think, here's how we should play this year, here's what our
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record should be, and unfortunately, for Husker fans, we've probably been below
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that for everybody. Now, is that the fans fault? Is it the
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player's fault? I don't know. Is the coach's fault? I don't know.
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But here we are. We are three games in and all these expectations
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and thoughts and predictions that we make they can be adjusted, and they are
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constantly adjusting every week. Right, we make a prediction for the game that
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in the upcoming week, we think about, you know, what we can
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do the rest of the year, We think about where we're going to be
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in three or five years. We do all of that in our brains when
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you're a fan of a team, if you're a true fan. I don't
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know if Dac does that for OU, for the Celtics or any of them,
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but da titles it's all he thinks about. So every fourth of the
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year. So we're three games in, I want to do this, so
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we'll do it a couple more times. I want to kind of reassess everybody's
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expectations on where we were at at the beginning of the year and where we're
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at now. I will say, I have been oh for three on game
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by game expectations. I thought we were going to get killed by Minnesota.
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I thought we were gonna eat Colorado, and I thought last week's game was
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going to be close. So I'm an over there. But from a overall
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season standpoint, I think we're pretty much in line from what I was thinking
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going into the year. Austin, where's your head at? Yeah, I
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mean I think from my preseason thought. You know, we kind of thought
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there's potential to before no going into Michigan, but realistically we thought we were
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going to lose one of the first two games. We ended up losing the
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two first two games, but we're very competitive in one of them. But
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I probably agree we're one and two. I expect us to be two and
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one at this point. The only expectation that changed was I did not expect
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our defense to look as good as it has, and I have not expected
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our offense to look as bad as it has. But I kind of balanced
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it out to where we're pretty much to where I thought we'd be. I
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like that because you can break it down however you want, by player by
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game, by game, by position, however you want to do. It,
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but for sure, I don't think anybody saw our defense looking the way
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it has through three games. And I which hindsight looking at just who got
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the single digit jerseys, because it was what eight of the nine of them
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were all defense or whatever. It was seven of the nine. I don't
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remember how much, but it was a large portion of the defensive players got
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the jerseys. We probably should have seen it coming a little better, but
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yeah, we looked very good, So that's a plus. The turnover piece
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I think is lower, but dak over here, you know you expected that
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from Jeff Sims, So maybe that's just right a lot. No, it's
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it's deadline. But I thought was gonna happen. I knew I was gonna
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happen right away. I did not I have the same exact notes right now.
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The defense not thinks would be as good from the offense. I thought
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it was gonna be a lot better. But yeah, I did not think
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I should have known about Sadderfield coming in. I forgot how Baddy West South
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Carolina and he just read lot road live along what I thought was going to
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happen. And I think Husker fans across the board are known for their unrealistic
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expectations. And we've talked about that a lot on this podcast, and I
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think there's a little bit of just hesitation this year with what happened with Frost,
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and I know there definitely has been with myself. I just have not
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been able to fully jump in and believe that we can win nine or ten
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games every year. So reality of the situation where four or five one football
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team. Now, that being said, at the beginning of the year,
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yeah, I think about everybody thought we were going to be two and one.
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I also don't think anybody there may be a few believers that thought Colorado
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is gonna be three and oh, and I think you have to also look
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at not only where we are at, but also the teams that we're playing
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against. How are they performing relative to expectation. So yeah, for where
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we're at now, I would say we're not far off. I think,
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yeah, there's some balance between our offense and defense, one being a lot
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better than the other from where we thought it was going to be. But
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now I guess resetting our expectations for the rest of the year based on what
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we know. What we do know is the Big ten West is absolutely horrible
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and we think, you know, I think we all talk, you know,
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winning six games would be a good year. But I don't think it
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was unrealistic to look at it and think that there's potential to win eight or
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I'm not gonna say nine, but they're digital win more and then. But
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also at the same time, depending on how the year went, could have
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win three or four, I would say, looking at the rest of our
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schedule, just going through them. Here, there's nine games left Michigan expectation.
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Stop me if you guys are changing your dots here, but Michigan nothing
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win. Yeah, you did say that, and I believe that. I
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don't even know yeps, Like going into Colorado game that we punted four a
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time. If Colorado punted four times, we would win. I didn't expect.
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Also, I didn't expect the meltdown. That's true. Well what's gonna
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happen when we melt down against Michigan. Didn't expect that one. So Michigan
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loss, I don't think, I mean, could be ugly. I don't
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think that's changed. Illinois. That was one game that I was like,
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I was high on Illinois and I thought that was almost for sure loss.
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Now it's a question mark. I think we can go out and win that
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game potentially. Northwestern I think was a win coming into the year, and
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I think it's still win perdue. I thought it was gonna be tougher than
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they are. Again, if we're really where we think we're at, I
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mean purdues under under exceeding, underperforming, Michigan States underperforming. Maryland probably hasn't
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done. I don't think they've played anybody. Wisconsin's underperforming Iowa. I guess
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you could say maybe it's overperforming, but not really. I don't know.
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So if you're looking at it from that standpoint, like if you're expected win
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total was six and a half, like the teams on our schedule, maybe
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could raise that a half for a full win. Now, we haven't gotten
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into the big news of the week that I think puts a little bit of
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a halt to that is our two running backs being out for the year.
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I think that might be worth a half a game the other way because it
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gets into the maybe the lack of depth now that we have at that position.
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Emmett Johnson and helped me with the other guy, Premier. Johnson gave
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Irving, no, you're talking out yes, right, yep. So we
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got a couple of guys that I've never played a snap and Anthony Grant's going
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to be the number one guy. How many characters are you gonna get?
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I don't know, so you have to factor that too. But I mean,
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overall, guys, looking at the rest of the year, from where
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we're at a quarter of the way through the season, I think that the
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expectation might have gone up for what we potentially could do. Even though we
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are one and two right now, and we thought we should be two and
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one. What was the win total at the beginning of the year and six
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and a HALFSI thought it was probably should have been five and a half.
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Is that an unfair statement? I seem to remember when we were talking,
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is like, if we get six wins, that's a good year. Five
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wins realistically, Yeah, I think six and halp was pretty hight theginning of
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the year. Yeah, I would have bet that under I mean, and
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we were being the not drinking the kool aid, the rule aid and still
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trying not to hear, but we are coming off win at Memorial Stadium and
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it felt good to walk out of the stadium feeling good for one so that's
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where all the positivities coming from. But at the same time, right like
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these other teams in the Big ten Wests are not looking hot either, so
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it makes these games so much more winnable and still actually frustrate to even more
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that we lost to Minnesota and that Week one game because god damn with the
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defense. Yes, like our offense doesn't look good, but if your defense
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is going against if a good defense is going against bad offenses, a bad
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offense can win you a game. So that's where the hope comes into play,
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because it's like, well, if we hold them all the ten points
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a game, we can muster two touchdowns maybe, Like that's not out of
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the realm of possibility. That's optimism. Yeah. And that's not to say
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that we're going to win all these games either. I just think that they
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are. They are games that we should be in a dog fight with,
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just like the Minnesota game was. And if we can find a way to
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flip the script and win a few of those, then the record we're gonna
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like the record where we're at. But if this year of the building culture
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thing continues on throughout the whole year, and I mean that ties into all
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the patients and talk that we've had before. If that continues, then yeah,
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we're probably not going to get to six wins. We're probably going to
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only win three or four. But I just think it's a good it's a
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good exercise to do for fans of any team, right to kind of look
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back and level set where your head was at before certain things happen, and
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then what reality play its way through, and then and see how things have
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changed. Because being a fan of a team, it plays with your emotion.
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It just it takes a toll on. Yeah, it can be can
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be a little bit hurtful sometimes not speaking from experience at all, Right,
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Dak, Yeah, with this schedule, if you don't make a ball game,
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I think that's a huge disappointment. I wouldn't say huge disappointment. I
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think all those teams besides Iowa Michigan and I think it was confident terrible.
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I think all the restaurant just got awful. Yeah, and they're not good.
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And the counter argument to that is that we're not good either, So
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yeah, I mean huge disappointment. Maybe I think the more disappointment is would
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be that this slow building rebuild of a culture is going to take longer than
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we thought or could take longer, and then you also start doubting if it's
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ever going to work. I think if we don't make a ball game,
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those questions start to pop up towards the end of the year and then into
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the off season. And that's why at the season predictions are game by game
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importance whatever. That's why I had some those games at the end towards the
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top is that that's going to tell us a lot about what we learned in
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this year one rebuild, and we're gonna know even more now that these teams
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are not as good as we thought they were. I think if we're getting
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blown out every game, I definitely think that if that's a very disappointing end.
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But if we win five games and don't make a bowl, I don't
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think that was out of the Like I we kind of we were talking preseason,
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that was definitely in the realm of possibility. Yeah, and everyone and
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Rule keeps telling us, hey, this is a slow build. We're not
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this isn't an overnight fix. And he keeps saying, my first year we
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usually win won two games. Well, he's been upfront about that message the
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whole time, and I'm sure the part of that's just covering his ass for
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when he comes out there and wins won two games in the first season,
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and it's like, well, I told you guys that this is the long
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field. But there's a reason. There's a reason they won two games of
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Baylor because he walked in after what are brows do to be? What do
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you do? That was bad? I can't remember. I don't remember either.
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He lost enough scholarships and everything. Yeah, yeah, real situations here
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is quite a bit different. You're not at Temple, and yeah, you
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didn't agree, which is why we expect more than one or two wins.
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But right to go from last year to not getting if he wants if he
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wins five games, I don't think that's a major disappointment. Dak. Let's
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get to another one of your points on your two pages here, Okay,
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second page. Do you want to do you want to dive into your talent?
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Yeah, let's jump into the talent. You tell me this is this
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is a big topic here that came up throughout the week, Dak. You
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tell me what is what is talent d to be? What does that wordy
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to be? For me? It's I test it's you can see talent on
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the field. It's all. That's all I think it is. If you
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see you can see it easily. I agree with that. That's a good
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definition. So it's just a gut, it's just that's talent. Yep.
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Jackson's Day, I said, that's talent. Okay, so tell me this
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what Now we have a we had a pull out there. We got a
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whole bunch of responses on it. Not really, but we did get some
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results back. Does this team have talent? This your dad? Yes?
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Yeah, hold on, hold on, hold on, Austin, Yeah,
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I think it does. I think where I might, where I would assess
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the talent is is different than where you guys would. But so gun into
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your head. You have to answer yes or no to this question. That's
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why I word it this way, because there's all sorts of yes, if
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or no but that you could do with this. But gun into my head.
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I'm saying no, I'm answering that question. No, But there's all
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sorts of levels and definitions to how you can describe talent. That go ahead,
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because you're gonna say something before I go on my rant. Oh,
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I was just gonna say the talent I think your talent is that tied end
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the line and linebackers. You have a couple. Okay, that's why i'd
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say your talents out this year. But yeah, yeah, I so it's
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talent compared to who relative to who? Right? That? That to me
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is the question. We don't have talent compared to Ohio State, Michigan,
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those teams. I will also say this, we don't have talent compared to
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last year's team, especially at the skill player position. We don't have a
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Tray Palmer, we don't have a wand Dale for a couple of years ago.
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Hell, we definitely don't have talented or quarterback position. Defensively, I
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would agree with you that there's some there. But overall, if you'd ask
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me if this team is talented, no, because if our team was talented,
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then if we had the talent. How I think about talent, your
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produce, your Illinois, your Northwesterns, your Maryland's, those are like automatic
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things. So going back to expectations, and I think there's a difference between
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having talent and having enough talent. You're saying there's no talent on the team,
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which is not true. I think that certain volume talent I'm saying if
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you had to answer that question yes or no. That's why I'm answered no.
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Across the board, I don't think this team has because the teams that
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even the teams that Bopolini coached, those teams had more talent because they're I
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mean there were there were like given wins just because of you look at people
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in the who go to the NFL or have gone to the NFL. They
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were in the past. There have been more NFL prospects from the teams than
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what we current coroduced the last several years. You can talk about it from
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that angle to what NFL caliber players are on this roster right now. None.
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I would argue to feel like, right like Quentin Newsom probably can make
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a squad yep, maybe yeah, he'd be the one. There's there's not
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a lot. So yeah, that's where my mind's going when I think about
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does this team have talent? Now, the flip side of that equation is
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we had we do have enough talent to beat these Big ten West schools because
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they don't have any talent either, So we do have When you talk about
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talent and say does this team have talent, we have the talent to win
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seven or eight games. That is one hundred percent true because the other teams
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that we play don't either. When was the last time Iowa had a talented
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quarterback that what we would consider talent? Maybe he made it in the NFL,
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he started in the NFL game. I guess, I mean, I
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guess. So that that is why you didn't scare you though you didn't want
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them, you weren't scared of CJ. Betther. Right, So it leaves
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about next question. Oh, good for it, go ahead, and because
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I was kind of move on. But what we're you gonna say? I
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was gonna say, honestly, probably our most talented person right now that sticks
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out to me. It's Tony White, the defensive coordinator. Yep. But
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that's it. That's all I was gonna say. I guess. Okay,
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I'm gonna do this, play this card too. I like that question our
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most talented player, dak who's our most talented player that you've seen? Being
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the big Husker fan? Are I don't Austin? I'm gonna say probably Rymer?
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Okay, I like that He's another one NFL potential there. Yeah,
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you guys are gonna laugh. What am I gonna say? Who am I
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gonna say, really yes, Dick, oh god from from a from a
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raw talent, raw talent, athletic ability to throw. It's Jeffson's now,
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decision making is not. I mean, I guess you can factor into talent
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too, But Jeff Sin's's talented if he had a brain. In my mind,
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that's what makes it rod talent, right is he? I guess when
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my definition of talent was you have the athletic ability to stand out amongst your
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peers, but you also are able to execute your role to a level better
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than your peers, and that's what makes you talented on a football field.
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He's lacking that executing better than your opponent's part. That's kind of killing him
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in every bit of the execution part. Yeah. So if he talented or
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just athletic, good point. I mean, I think athleticism plays a lot
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into that. I think when I think of talent to you, I think
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of which guys on the field can go make a play. Now, that
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might be more a playmaker versus being talented, but I mean, which guy
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has the ability to break off a sixty yard run? And Jeff Simms if
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we have one, right, Yeah, Billy Kemp I was hoping would be
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talented. But Billy Kemp can't do what like wan Dale and and Toura and
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all those guys could do. Like those guys could just fly across the middle
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and get open like Billy Kemp has shown that he's not talented enough to do
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that. So, moving on with this talent conversation, what or whose job
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is I guess this might be a very obvious answer, but to retain talent?
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Get talent first? Whose job is it to get the talent to the
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school? And then what is the best way in today's environment to retain that
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talent? So I know rules approaches. He takes athleticism because he believes he
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can coach the ball aspect of it, which would be the execution part.
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So it's obviously it's obviously rules responsibility to get and retain talent. I go
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for a dack. No, No, you got it. I said.
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There's really no other way to praise it outside of I mean you can maybe
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say, you know, positionally coached positions that they're in charge of, like
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maintaining those relationships more so than the head coach. But I'd say it ultimately
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boils up to matt rule and then as I think the who part is pretty
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obvious, and then I guess the second part of that is how like,
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I know that's very coach speak, but in today's environment, how how how
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does a school like Nebraska is supposed to retain the talent that we have and
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not have them leave the second that they get good Dak, I think the
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who a big one actually on the who is the donors with nil now,
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yeah, that's true, and retaying talents too is it's donors a lot now,
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cad you see seventh name, Uh huh. The Sims meal is no
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longer the Sims Meal at Amigos. I heard about that. I didn't know
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if that's true or not. Oh no, they got it all right,
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That's what I saw a picture on Twitter. I don't know if it's every
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Amigos that's tough, that's not good. That's that's a really good angle.
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I I agree with that it is, and that that's part of the environment
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here too that I think helps. But you have to utilize it and use
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it in the right way. We talked last time about like someone like Sims
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who comes in has not proven or shown anything and he gets all these nil
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deals. Basically handed to him. I don't think that approach is necessarily the
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right one, because now what does the guy had to work for, and
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what motivation he's getting paid? And maybe if you have an assessed your talent
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correctly, that people's motivations are just to find the biggest paycheck and go there,
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and who gives a shit what happens in the football field. I'm getting
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paid. That's anything. We can all say. That's probably not the way
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that you'd want a football program. Broun, So, I think you have
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to be careful using the nil in the correct way, especially at Nebraska where
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we do have an abundance of resources. With that, I I just want
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to add and part of my I think we rules approach might work better towards
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or tensions because he's not grabbing people who are like recruited. His approach is
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he's going to develop the town talent. He's going to take the atlases and
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develop it. And then by the time that those players actually are showing their
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skill set on the field, they have already earned their playing time and they've
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been in the program for several years, so there's a little bit more of
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a sweat equity. I think that that's the approach, and I can see
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how that, I can see the logic behind it. I'll be interesting if
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it actually plays out that way. Can that work in I'm just playing devil's
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advocate here in today's environment where it's not very common that you are going to
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a team and if you're a talented player, what we're defining is talent to
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sit behind somebody and and get better or improve the execution piece or the intangible
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piece, and then wait for a year or two until your time's up.
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Like I don't think that's a very common approach any I agree, But that's
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why he's I think his thought is we're taking the people who they're not going
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to start anywhere, Like these these guys aren't going to start anywhere just based
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off of their transferring there. They're not gonna get poached by other coaches because
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they're not on the field right now. But by the time they get on
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the field, they've already been here for a year or two, and these
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senior person who's transferred out above them opened up that window. I don't know,
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don't understand, yea. So then the hard part to that is are
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they actually talented exactly? Yeah, that developing. A perfect guy that comes
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to mind right now is a Malik Y Coleman, right, I mean,
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would we say he's a talented player? Maybe? I don't. I don't
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know if he If he is, why isn't he playing like that? That's
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the question where you know, we we talk about a guy like that in
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the offseason, how talented he is. And I say we had saying the
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media, the media hypes this guy up, right, and we've even hyped
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him up for three games now of we gotta get this guy the ball.
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Well maybe we don't want to get him the ball? Well what what?
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What's the what? What's the reasoning here? Like? Is is he not
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as talented as we thought he was? Is he? You know what I
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mean? Like that? That's why this topic so intriguing. Another question that
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came to mind as I was thinking about this, Dak, would you say
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our teams in the nineties had talent? Yeah, you have to have talent,
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Dwayne Titles, I'd agree agree with you on that. What's funny though,
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is that where'd that talent come from? A lot of especially on the
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line, they were the in state pipeline guys. Now, the time periods
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are very different, right, But it's just an interesting topic that comes up.
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I guess all the time. And the last question I have on this
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to finish this talent discussion up, because we spent about the whole podcast talking
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about it. Is it okay if talent leads? I mean, it depends
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depends on what your program is, all right. If you're a Bama,
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yeah you've been a Braska. No, no, because we're not getting that
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talented. If it's rules system. It takes years to develop the talent.
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So is it okay that Casey Thompson left? Well, I finally got the
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news from cleansing reporter. He's out for the year. So yeah, so
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it's okay because he got hurt. Yeah, he wanted to play it all
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year. You would have for three games. I think that's what That's the
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hard part, right is you have to retain those guys. And we can
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talk and make this as complicated as we want, but guys, it comes
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down to one thing, it really does. It's winning. It comes down
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to winning and if you win, get people are going to stay. So
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we can be as patient as we want with the coaching staff like this,
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but at the same time, you don't win, you're losing those players,
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and it's no longer a rebuild, incaa anymore like it as much as people
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every step forward, it's still kind of two steps back, it is,
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because it's just a constant. Yeah, it's a great way of putting it.
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You take a step forward, great, but if you're not doing everything
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right, like those guys are leaving, those guys are gone. So I
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just want it kind of made a big circle go on my mind and like,
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oh, well, okay, so how much patience or what do we
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expect or what do we need to happen out of this year for rule to
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make this thing work? Because if we win four games this year, it's
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gonna be hard to believe that we're gonna win more. I mean we're going
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to people are going to believe it. That's what Husker fans do. But
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I just have to remember that if people leave, is it okay if talent
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leaves, because I think we all say no, like that's not it's not
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okay. But it will happen. If we're not winning games, it will
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Well, we're gonna be Louisiana Tech, so we'll be Louisiana Text becaust the
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three this year. I don't know. I saw the ranked higher in PFF
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rankings. All right, dad, give us your Louisiana Tech preview. Nowy
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you know they're head coach? All right, well this all this is all
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I got wrote down here. They ranked sixty eighth and the PFF rankings.
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Nebraska's won of eight. So maybe take Louisian Tech money line right there,
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and they like to play fast. Their quarterback can't be worse than Rocky.
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That's that's my guy. And then the coldest Crawford game? How many passes
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as the coldest Crawford caught this season? Zero? But he's played all four
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games zero passes. That's right, what's the coldest Crawford? Talented? I
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don't know if he's not. He got an IL deal. He didn't play
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a snap. True, So Louisiana Tech DAK, as he mentioned, is
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going to run and gun it. They're gonna run a lot of plays.
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Back to what the three three five is supposed to defend. It's supposed to
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defend that. Their quarterback is Hank Bachmeyer, another guy that seems like,
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good God, he's been in the league for who knows how long? I
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did hear he got hurt in their last game. So Jack Turner did come
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in and play, but expect one of those guys Hank Bach Meyers at Boise
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State for a while. If you guys remember that. I don't think he
33:02
got very high praise there either. But yeah, they're gonna they're gonna throw
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it. They're gonna run tempo, and the weather right now is supposed to
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be rainy and windy, so that should play into our favor. I don't
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know, I don't know what on the offensive side, Austin, Who's gonna
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who who are we seeing? What's the plan from our offense? Well,
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we're gonna see Hindrick Harbird, and we're gonna see Anthony Grant, and we're
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gonna run the ball freaking every down. Even though Sudderfield came out and said
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we won't even passed the ball more, it's like, have you seen what
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we're passing? There? You go, that's not what we want. So
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I think it'll be Hardbird and I think it'll be Anthony Grant just getting a
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bulk of the carries. No mention of Jeff since no Jeff sims I.
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So I don't know where your guys is my Oh, I know where Dax's
34:06
minds at sounds like Austin said on Harbor guys, I I think we need
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to play them both. I think they both and as long as Sim's health
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is fine right now with this game, do we get cute and know we
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have Michigan coming up next week and try to not saying experiment but Sadderfield's comments,
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if we need to throw the ball, okay, like maybe to give
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Michigan something to see and and look at and be harder to prepare for,
34:38
because you know, Harbor, with the suspension, all he's been doing is
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fucking sitting on his couch watching Rutgers Nebraska film. Probably not even Rutgers film,
34:46
just Nebraska film. Will hell, maybe he skipped over us too,
34:52
and just studying our defense and how he's gonna beat it so we can laugh
34:59
and joke that they we can be creative, but like maybe just win the
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game and yep, win the game by running. I don't know if you're
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good enough to be creative. I'm I'm with you. I don't know that
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that's what we want to do at this point. Some you know, I
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think I've heard some podcasts say we want to, you know, help Jeff
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Simms and Hardberg, like throw it down the field more so they get that
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exposure because we're going to have to do it against in the Big ten.
35:29
Like, I don't believe that they're not good at it. Don't force them
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to do something they're not good at. On the flip side, if we're
35:37
shorter running back, I'm not saying put those guys at running back, but
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have the have designed quarterback runs for a series, Like give jeff Simms a
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package. If Jeffson isn't going to be our starter, give him a package
35:49
where he comes in in the second quarter and runs the ball four times and
35:52
then, yeah, you can throw it a couple of times, but make
35:54
them like the most easy, simple passes that we can never make like.
36:00
But I think we somehow need to incorporate both of them into our strategy or
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not saying they're they're kind of the same player a little bit because they're both
36:07
running first quarterbacks. But give give Michigan, give these other teams something to
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prepare for. Yeah, I agree, I yeah, if Sims's helpfully to
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definitely think she both defensively, though, I think if it's raining, I
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feel like we have a pretty good shot of doing pretty well against them,
36:31
although they do run the ball pretty well average five yards to carry. I'm
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gonna be in a piss four mood Saturday if it rains. Oh it'll be
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lovely. Dak. All right, we have to do Dak's picks. Dak,
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you got a minute, you're ready? All right? Go all right?
36:54
First one, all you? They're fourteen half five down the fourteen,
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they're gonna kill them snatty. But by down the fourteen, next one lock
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of the week Florida State minus two, they are gonna be cleansed by twenty
37:06
four plus next one Colorado Colorado plus twenty one and a half. They're gonna
37:13
lose the Oregon. I don't think they'ren get blown out. I think it's
37:15
gonna be closing what people think, Ole Miss. They're underdog six and a
37:20
half. Dama, they're gonna win out right, but take them six and
37:22
a half. It's one. You gotta put your you gotta put your nuts
37:27
on table sometimes. So here we go. Notre Dame money line. They're
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gonna beat our house states and be yu over fifty four and a half.
37:34
There's gonna be a lot of points in that game. Rutgers plus wing born
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against Michigan. I'm not breath Michigan at all. And then Texas tex Mi
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six are West Virginia and West Jian is terrible. Maryland my seven half of
37:47
Michigan state minch states also terrible. And last one this is another lock.
37:52
North Carolina's seven half seven half over pick hit is half terrible. We gotta
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up the picks. There is a spicy picks. But you got to Hey,
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you out for Nebraska. You got Nebraska covering the line. I don't
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remember what the line was. Twenty one Uh, I hadn't picked yes,
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oh corporations. Real quick score predictions thirty eight to ten, Nebraska twenty eight
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eight seven Nebraska forty five to three. Whoo began check you No, I'm
38:32
getting Nebraska, all right, go big Rett. I love that burnt orange dude,