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No Volleyball, but a Football Game to Discuss · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: Sean is one of those, like Jim here in the
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  Speaker 1: inbox that says, do we get a refund here for
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  Speaker 1: going to Wrigley and not seeing a volleyball match? You
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  Speaker 1: going to get that Ven mode back to you?
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  Speaker 2: Take it away, guys. Hey, guys. Good morning from O'Hare
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  Speaker 2: Airport area. I got to basically watch the Savannah Bananas
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  Speaker 2: twice this year because that's about what it turned into
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  Speaker 2: last night at Wrigley. 43,067 fans in attendance. the largest
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  Speaker 2: crowd at Wrigley for a game in well over 10,
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  Speaker 2: 15 years for any sport. So from that standpoint, it
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  Speaker 2: was an unbelievable experience. But clearly, they just didn't think
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  Speaker 2: through some of the things that they dealt with in
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  Speaker 2: this game, and there was no way to play this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think the humidity and the moisture on the court,
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  Speaker 2: as you guys watched on TV, it just wasn't happening
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  Speaker 2: to get this match in last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it was very dangerous for the players. You
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  Speaker 1: certainly couldn't do any backslides, and you certainly couldn't You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to create the kind of elevation that
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  Speaker 1: the Nebraska athletes do at the net, that's really risky.
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  Speaker 1: You could come down and tear an ACL, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're out for the year. Danny Busboom-Kelly hinted about her
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  Speaker 1: misgivings about this some time ago, Scott and Sean, and
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  Speaker 1: her worst fears came to fruition. You can't be playing
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  Speaker 1: indoor sports outdoors very often and stay lucky.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a gamble, and this was a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this was not Nebraska's decision or choice to play this match.
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  Speaker 2: The Big Ten set this up with the SEC and Fox,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a great idea, filled Rayleigh Field, but
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't like Nebraska organized this. I mean, the television
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  Speaker 2: partners in the conference put this together, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if Nebraska had a choice, one or the other,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody saw Volleyball Day in Nebraska four years ago
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  Speaker 2: and thought, hey, we can recreate that and You kind
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  Speaker 2: of need the perfect storm, I think, as we know,
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  Speaker 2: with the weather and the wind to get something like that. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: this wasn't meant to be. I've been to multiple Cubs games, guys,
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  Speaker 2: and I've never seen Wrigley so crowded. You could not
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  Speaker 2: move in this place. It was incredible to see Nebraska
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  Speaker 2: fans out here at this number.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the new thing, to be a Husker volleyball fan.
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  Speaker 1: And there are thousands and thousands of them all over
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  Speaker 1: the country now, not just in Nebraska, but everywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Chicago has a significant contingent of Nebraskans, as does Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of their largest alumni out of the state
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  Speaker 1: alumni bases. So it was a good idea, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't be playing indoor sports outdoors very often. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the football game. Your overall, I thought Donovan Jones
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  Speaker 1: had the best game of any Husker. What say you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he was one of those guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Rule, to me, is where I'd probably go. Just
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  Speaker 2: one of the best true freshman games we've seen at
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  Speaker 2: the running back position for an opener, especially. But Jones
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  Speaker 2: was a bright... I thought the secondary in general. I
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  Speaker 2: thought Victor Evans looked good when he was in there.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Andrew Marshall... Those guys played on the up front,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a different story. They didn't get home with
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  Speaker 2: their pass rush with the four-man front very often. That
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  Speaker 2: is something the next couple of weeks that needs to
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  Speaker 2: get tuned up more, but lots of positives from the offense.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's easy in week one to have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of overreactions, but if you just watch college football,
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of sloppy, ugly games where Teams
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  Speaker 2: that were supposed to win by more started out slow,
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  Speaker 2: just like Nebraska did. You saw Nebraska pull out and
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  Speaker 2: cover the spread, which I don't think at a point
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  Speaker 2: of the fourth quarter people thought was even a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: So the finish of outscoring Ohio 42-8 down the stretch
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  Speaker 2: was really, really.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see. We have just a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: time left, Sean, but get your take on the Michigan-Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan episode. We're now hearing people that are experienced in
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  Speaker 1: camera operators and have been involved in the syncing up
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  Speaker 1: of the game clock with the TV cameras. The Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten has a secret clock that nobody sees but them.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think there's any more fallout from this episode,
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  Speaker 1: or is it done?
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone will move on from the Western Michigan side.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what they have to get. They want
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  Speaker 2: to keep getting the checks from the Big Ten. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the unfortunate part of the business model of college football.
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  Speaker 2: The MAAC conference gets these million to $ 2 million checks
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  Speaker 2: to play these games, and those checks are what fund
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  Speaker 2: their department. And, you know, I think this thing will
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  Speaker 2: probably go away. But, yeah, I was stunned. We've lived
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  Speaker 2: through this before with Nebraska versus Texas, but that one
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  Speaker 2: was pretty clear in the Big 12 title game. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the clock should have had a second left, even though
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  Speaker 2: we don't agree as Nebraskans. But this one, like, it
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  Speaker 2: looked like it was done. And then all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden some secret clock that nobody knew existed said differently.
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  Speaker 1: All right, bud. Safe travels back. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Husker Buzz report with Sean Callahan.