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Indiana-Nebraska Preview with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (The IU Report, 3.70) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU Report with Grand Shows and My Cutsal, their preview of IU's Game Attener Brasca on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's only on the single Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Special edition of the IU Report tonight with Grand Scouts and My Cutsal Indiana Travels to Nebraska on Saturday, probably
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[SPEAKER_02]: their biggest road test to date so far this season as they take on the Bravsky on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Indiana and Knights win over rockers last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, how do you think they keep the momentum and kind of keep their what I thought was maybe their cleanest performance offensively pretty clean for the most part defensively too, but special teams in the kicking game got a little rocky, but how do they keep their foot on the gas?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess going in the Saturday and Lincoln.
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[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, I just want to start out and say, I've learned one thing this week that I wasn't totally aware of, but I shouldn't be surprised by, and that's that Nebraska fans are just Notre Dame fans without the Jeremiah Love Run.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just an absolute collection of cretons and mutants who aren't humorous or even entertaining.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Indian has only been good for two years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You, you, high definition television wasn't close to being a thing the last time you won anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: you want to have a national title in the 90s with Michigan cool good job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just not fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they talk about corn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You think it's a cliche.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They make corn jokes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he needs corn out of a can.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: horrible, horrible people, not a fun fan base.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's, it's, it's really made this week even more personal for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as far as the game itself, obviously the biggest test of the season for Indiana, Nebraska's sneaky good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think people realize that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they just think in the Nebraska that I just alluded to that for the last 30 years is,
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[SPEAKER_01]: been the college football equivalent of what any in a basketball is just kind of wandering out in the wilderness trying to figure it out and you know some really really bad coaching higher thrown in there and Matt rule is just this guy who is
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[SPEAKER_01]: Trying to crock thought his way through the, through a coaching, you know, building a program where his Kurt Signetti just blasted the microwave and went straight to the national title.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That rule seems to be slowly building.
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[SPEAKER_01]: To get there, they got a good quarterback who transfers in from UNLV.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very mobile, didn't realize how mobile he actually was ran for 100 yards last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a sneaky game, Indiana, the Indiana we saw at Rutgers needs to be present from the word go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The offense was crisp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They ran the ball great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They threw the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nebraska cannot match what Indiana has it receiver with their corners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the defense if the defense can control the line of scrimmage of the way they did in that, that rugby game, I'm feeling pretty confident going in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought defensively last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were, they were really crisp as well as their offense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like we said, the first drive at the game on offense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think set the tone for, for Josh Hoover being able to come down a real surgical, uh, looked up a Charlie backer for a touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you you have to have drives like that on Saturday you have to be able to play a complete 60 minutes obviously it's the cliche but if you're going to win this game you got to put all three phases together and dignity just said tonight that he feels like they haven't put all three phases together in one game yet this season maybe they're saving it for Saturday maybe they're saving it
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[SPEAKER_02]: in order to win the game and feel comfortable and feel good about it, walking off the field.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna put all three phases together, often defense and special teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The one thing with Nebraska here is, you're right, they're sneaky good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if their logo had the Georgia G or the Alabama A or the LSU Tiger logo, this would be a top 15 team in the country right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no doubt that they had a, even though they haven't ugly born G for Tennessee on their home at the B.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Or they had the black and gold B at Vanderbilt,
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's pretty clear this this team is good enough to to be ranked now their schedule hasn't been impressive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they're five and oh, they're a power 14 that's five and oh, those teams don't get left out of the rankings very often especially if it's a SEC or big 10 team and it really felt like
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[SPEAKER_01]: Coming off their game last week, I know the Maryland wasn't as impressive a win as they were probably hoping as far as like the spread of the final outcome, but they, they still, they ran it up pretty good in the second half, fourth quarter of that game, and it really wasn't ever endowed late.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anthony Calandra, I think, Sig is alluded to him this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He played at Virginia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't the best quarterback I ever saw when he played there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe Sig beat him when he was at James Madison.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he did transfer last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He played at UNOV for day and moment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He kind of turned his career trajectory around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He transfers in Nebraska this year and he's been one of arguably the top five quarterbacks in the big 10.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he is a pretty easy statement to make and it's really made a difference for this team They've been so inconsistent at that position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They thought they had it all figured out when they got Dylan Rayola a couple of years ago He didn't quite pan out with the hype that he had coming in so
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're getting a lot more steady play at the position and like I said, he's a threat with his legs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He can easily run for 100 yards and he could break and tame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we saw with Aiden Tiles a couple weeks ago, Indiana does not if they don't bring them down on that first pursuit mobile quarterbacks from really give them fits.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that Nebraska is
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that they have the offense designed the way North Western does were kind of the wing T and under center play action aid and you know, like what they did with aid and jiles.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think the graph is as good as North Western to be honest with you, but I do think they're a good team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Those are two teams that should be ranked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And again, if they were in the SEC or had an SEC logo, they would be ranked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This a little bit of a different tone to the preview.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think then it was last week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Last week we were kind of able to do for round a little bit because it was rockers in the game obviously proved that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think this is the legit squad there in Nebraska.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a good test going into the Ohio State game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're playing on the road in front of over 90,000 people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've seen what has happened in Indiana when they played in front of that many people in a true road game before at the shoe.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's 24.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if the shoe holds over 100,000.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know Mike?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it does.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, even when they went to Kinnick last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Indiana got a road test, but they also went to Watson and one there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this team tested on the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This staff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is a proven it can win these road games, uh, I forget what the stat is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's every game day Memorial Stadium and Lincoln becomes the second or third biggest city in the state of Nebraska, which is just absurd and crazy to think about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have some totally real sellout streak that hasn't been pumped up by boosters through the years and, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they said they've sold out every game since like 1640 to read, which is completely real, not made up in any way shape or form, it's not like produce national titles or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't even bat an eye over it to be honest, so it is Demo's real thing ever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, I mean, totally, but I think Indiana fans of kind of jokingly said we're taking over the stadium on Saturday, I don't
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[SPEAKER_01]: anticipate that being anything close to true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nebraska does have a loyal fan base, it goes back decades, generations.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Memorial Stadium has always been one of the more intimidating places to go to in college football even when the team can't quite match the hype of the crowd going in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you remember my a couple years ago when the brass became the Indiana and it was homecoming and it was kind of the The first game of the build it and they will come portion of Indiana football where You know, there's actually now people in the stands staying all four quarters and this is something here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is a real thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There was the joke back then that Nebraska fans were like oh well, it's only like that because all of us in the Nebraska fans bought up all your tickets and then that it became the hashtag thank you Nebraska that game two years ago was kind of that again the turning point and being like okay, this is
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is real.
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[SPEAKER_02]: To me, that game was the UCLA game in 2024.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think for the fan base as a whole and maybe for America as the whole, it was that Nebraska game two years ago that put them on notice with it being big noon and then game day was there the next week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was really, really special.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Indiana absolutely annihilated them that day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was wild.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was
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[SPEAKER_02]: the first game I wanted to see that stadium like that in my life until that day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was just because partially because it was just it was so unexpected.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana fans were optimistic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were hopeful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we might get a win over a good team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nebraska unfortunately had lost the week before to Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it kind of took a little bit of a
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they did get big noon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was just a great atmosphere going into the stadium where I was sitting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was kind of surrounded by the thank you Nebraska crowd, a lot of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Husker fans were sitting around me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were stunned.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dispondent, stunned, head in their hands.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't say much before the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think was just kind of looking forward to what everybody there was, a competitive fun game and just absolutely got blitzed by Indiana that day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stunningly enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's the game of horror Curtis Thumb.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it didn't matter because Jackson went in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They scored.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They picked off radio at the goal line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sean Asbury, it almost ran it back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was just everything that could go wrong for Nebraska that day went wrong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Indiana could not have played a more complete football game than it did that day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A day was really special.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully we're kind of hitting that point in the season now where it's like, OK, this again also feels like a special team
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is that, is that first opportunity here?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those games to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think you have a different approach to the Western Kentucky game where you're sitting they're gone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we won, but I don't know that it felt great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: To me, this is a game where if you win by one or if you win by a hundred, it's one of those.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It felt great to win that game because again, they are an undefeated football team and should be ranked and this should be treated as such.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's a seven and a half point spread in the end as way, but all the metrics say it's going to be a lot closer than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the S&P has it around four and a half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're expecting a blowout as an Indiana fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I probably have bad news for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you're going to see it now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just breaking news here as we're recording Indiana now owes Nebraska one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Corn Husker volleyball team comes to Wilkinson Hall and sweeps the Hoosiers tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you, you got us in your sport Nebraska, we'll come back and get you in hours.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But that was a great atmosphere there at Wilkinson Hall because Indiana volleyball is kind of on the rise a little bit, Steve Aird.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know it's maybe been a little controversial in the past.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got that program rolling, but I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nebraska is just, Nebraska is just a sugar, not a volleyball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, like we said, on the last part, I mean, they don't, they don't measure wins and losses by matches lost.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's set lost.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It lost three sets this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're 16 and 0 as a team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: getting swept by Nebraska, not not not a program indicator in any way, show your performance for the volleyball team, but let's go back to beating up on Matt Rul.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Matt Rul lost a lot of weight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He is not that fat anymore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've noticed on TV.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really remember him coaching in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know he coached the Panthers and all that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Coach, it was K-B-I mean, how many times did you really see him coach in the NFL?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You were in Bloomington tonight Thursday night, and you watched the Kurt Signetti radio show anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: of particular note out of coming out of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know the injury report looks rather clean for Indiana this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This week, Kobe Martin, we expect out the only questionable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw it was LeBron bond.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anything of note from Signetti at the Coach of Chef.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this I don't think was talked about it to go to show, but it, you know, on the topic of the injury court, AJ Harris was not on the injury court for the first time since week two, which is good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he's he's probably good to go Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how much still.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I'll have a starting roll if he'll utilize him or not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is a good show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was probably the youngest person there though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They really get the old folks out for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, sick could come in and go, hey, hey, everybody in here, I want you to jump and everybody will how high, you know, that's that's the impact that he has, when he walks in, immediately the attention is on him, he commands a room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know we talked about that last year after I went to that show, but like it's even more true now, you know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: He is an incredibly awkward human being.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will say that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was good to briefly get to talk to him though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe for about five seconds, but last time I saw him, last time I met him and got a picture with him, they came out on Saturday the two days later and won by 50.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe the trend will hold through this week out at Nebraska, you'd ever done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we'll take it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we will certainly take it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're two for two on photos with SIG at the coaches show, so good work there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you've gotten when got to see some holiday to college, your favorite Walmart in the state of Indiana today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a big day for grants, so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's dude, it was a great day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That didn't beat time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can't beat it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's beautiful weather.
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[SPEAKER_02]: People were out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I did get a rally house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that says Kurt Signetti saved my life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought about wearing it to the show, but it was a little tacky.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He, so there's obviously a story behind my interaction or the end.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And by the way, like we're recording this, this happened like 25 minutes ago, so we started recording.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He obviously gets done and he comes in a back door and he had someone with him that,
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[SPEAKER_02]: is not Jeff Keg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And probably nobody knows who that is, but Jeff Keg is kind of his sidekick that goes everywhere with him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you've seen this guy on TV and didn't even know it was him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He didn't have that guy was there, but this wasn't the one walking around with him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He had one guy with him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm standing by this back door where he comes out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I go, a coach can we get a pick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the guy he's with said, no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he waved me off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and sick goes and sick like waved me over and we come outside and it goes it goes I figured we do it outside so we don't get mob I took that pick I slapped him on the back I said good luck Saturday didn't say a word to me so he's locked in that's good I've seen some things coming out of practice this week that it in the end is probably done them before but I haven't heard
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[SPEAKER_01]: of these tactics being put into place like people passing the stadium during practice and they're clearly just blasting crowd noise as loud as they can from.
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[SPEAKER_01]: from practice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think they are anticipating.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure just a raucous atmosphere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some one of those weird 11 a.m. games for Nebraska because the obviously, I don't know if you familiar with time zones, but they are now behind us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So big noon isn't even big noon there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So weird start time probably good that it's not a night game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably good that it's not a 330 game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you're going to just get a little bit of a later arriving, you know, hungover crowd at the beginning, but Nebraska's dying for this type of win for their football team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This goes back to the preview show that we did game by game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about how if Nebraska's undefeated coming into this game, their program has just been
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[SPEAKER_01]: since Bo Palini probably was their coach, which is you're going back away is at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have not had success.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're clamoring for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every basketball win that Nebraska has over Indiana in the last five to six years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They would cash in for this one win and football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are they are dying for a
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to take photos of this game of our fans on the field after the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to be for lack of a better term and I hate saying this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is Nebraska Super Bowl this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Signetti is a coach that I expect will have a knee in a ready, but you're going to get
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're not a fending champ.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know you're going to get other teams best shots, but this is a team that's actually good enough for their best shot may matter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, everything you just said was a hundred percent true and going back to your original point there of the crowd noise that that is something that Signetti talked about tonight was.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, they have utilized that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They did it last week against Rutgers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've done they're obviously doing it this week going into the Nebraska.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wouldn't be shocked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably one of those things you might even do in your, I mean, when you know you're going to be at home, I don't know how that works, but especially when you're on the road.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he alluded to, when they went to Ohio State and had to go to a silent count and Mike Cate at the center cut year, they weren't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said, obviously, that was something we weren't necessarily prepared for at the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then during that off season, before last year, they went in and they studied it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they did a couple of new things with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're able to kind of tweak some things and practice it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and really get that down to a science of what they want to do when they have to go to a silent count.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, definitely be on a silent count Saturday unless they could take that crowd out of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't know that they can, like you said, this would be, again, this isn't Nebraska Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's amazing that their Super Bowl is beating Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is still just, I think, amazing to some people that you can make Nebraska season
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[SPEAKER_02]: can be because they be Indiana freaking football at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully, hopefully, Indiana's ready to go, you don't want to be the team that Nebraska declares itself back against because you went in there and lost on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see, I hope it works out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you just want to get that delorean and go back in time and try to explain to people
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, guess what, in 2026, Nebraska is going to be trying to overcome two decades of futility by beating defending national champion Indiana and football and just to see the look, just to see the look on their face, like, if you go totally picked up that sports all minack from 2026, you'd be like, what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go tell Tommy Frazier on the field after that national title win over Florida.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, guess what?
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be on the sideline just hoping to beat Indiana in a couple decades, man.
23:40
[SPEAKER_01]: That's perfect.
23:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Like one of the things we haven't talked about is I think one of the biggest storylines going into this game is the weather.
23:50
[SPEAKER_02]: It's first to be sunny.
23:51
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just to be hot, but you're you're talking 13 to 20 mile an hour
23:57
[SPEAKER_02]: with gusts is almost up to 35 to 40 miles an hour at times during the game.
24:03
[SPEAKER_02]: that could be a factor, I think, for Indiana.
24:07
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a factor for Nebraska too, but we saw Nico Rattich, it's last week, Shank a couple that we aren't used to seeing him miss and now you throw the wind into it.
24:21
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he's fine, I think those were just rare mistakes by him, but now you factor in this 35 to 40 mile an hour
24:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Unless concerned about that because I think Indiana can run the ball if the win gets to any sort of level where it's going to impact the the the passing game the way Indiana has run over the first you know five weeks of the season.
24:55
[SPEAKER_01]: has been one of the most impressive things that maybe not enough people have talked about in college.
24:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Turbo Richards averaging almost a first down every carry.
25:03
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like 9.7 yards a carry.
25:08
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Indiana with the running game if the win gets too far out of hand, I think that plays to an advantage to Indiana because I feel like Indiana's defense.
25:19
[SPEAKER_01]: can stifle in Nebraska rushing attack a lot more efficiently than Nebraska's defense is going to be to stop it in the inner run attack.
25:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're right, Amy and we'll be able to run the ball in this game, hopefully.
25:41
[SPEAKER_02]: We've seen them have success with the run pretty much all season.
25:49
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the run game and lead BB was great and what's crazy is like we sit, you know, we sat here last week on Boy, you know, me and you Mike may have to get out on flight and go out to New Jersey and play running back on Saturday And then lead BB and turbo richer come out and both have, you know, over 300 combined yards of rushing
26:11
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they're both over 100 yards wrestling.
26:14
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got Charlie Becker and Nick Marsh, who were up over 100 yards receiving.
26:18
[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, I, uh, Nick Marsh is at the show tonight.
26:23
[SPEAKER_02]: He was the featured, uh, guest player guests after the show and he after Sig left.
26:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So, pretty cool for him, but keep those guys going.
26:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Keep them in rhythm, but you did last week and everything's going to be all right.
26:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Grant, I'm not certain based on what I've seen this year, that if Indiana ran a play with you in the backfield to the left behind Carter Smith, Drew Evans, that motion tied in with Big Marsh blocking on the outside, that you wouldn't get 20 yards on the carry.
27:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know what your 40 done is Grant, but the way Indiana's run that play to the left side of the
27:08
[SPEAKER_01]: it's it's been just pretty amazing to watch this year, but don't break it.
27:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Miguel, prime Greg, Miguel is getting through that hole and getting absolutely a huge chunk.
27:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, but don't worry because the Nebraska sleuths have figured it out.
27:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And their game plan is if you can stop baby and Richard from running
27:39
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's that easy.
27:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't can't believe nobody's thought of it yet, but I've there's a couple of Nebraska articles that's like, all they do is run left.
27:48
[SPEAKER_01]: If you can stop those guys, they've we've got it.
27:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And I can't believe, you know, it's been we're going into season three of Kurt Signetti and it took a week six game against Nebraska for them to finally crack the code.
28:11
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like what your fourth grade basketball coach and in elementary told you at one time there at new watch Mike making go right or making go left just making go left So I If you can pull it off So what do you think what are you thinking Grant?
28:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Boy, I've done a lot of thinking I've done a lot of thinking about it
28:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said earlier, the metric show that this game is going to be a lot closer than then people realize it may be closer than seven and a half.
28:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to take Nebraska plus seven and a half here, I think spread a racially open to eight and a half, grew to as high as nine and a half and has dropped to as much as now seven and a half, what it is at least now on Thursday night.
29:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a close game, I think Indiana squeaks one out.
29:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they went at 31 to 28.
29:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're on the right path.
29:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be a close game, maybe going into the fourth quarter.
29:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Nebraska is going to hit them with a little something early on.
29:19
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to get that first punch and we're going to get the grant patented.
29:24
[SPEAKER_01]: It's over text and about the 14, 14 minute and 15 second mark of the first quarter.
29:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana will settle in.
29:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they'll make the plays.
29:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think in the fourth quarter, though, they'll be able to run, grind Nebraska down with the running game.
29:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I'm gonna take Indiana 31.21.
29:55
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be fine with either of them.
29:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Might be a good one, Saturday.
30:00
[SPEAKER_00]: My score is 30, 20.
30:03
[SPEAKER_02]: It would be nice if they just come out and just beat the crap out of him and be honest with you, but I'd be shocked.
30:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be shocked if Indiana won this game by more than four touchdowns.
30:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be shocked.
30:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about how good Nebraska is.
30:27
[SPEAKER_01]: We just talked about it for the whole show.
30:30
[SPEAKER_01]: and you're saying, well, if they beat him by five touchdowns, that's gonna be surprised.
30:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it is.
30:37
[SPEAKER_01]: To come from this road game.
30:39
[SPEAKER_02]: That, but my point being is like, I hope Indiana fans don't over react to the fact of, oh, well, we didn't beat them by three or four touchdowns like we all thought we would.
30:50
[SPEAKER_02]: because it's Nebraska.
30:53
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't want to walk away feeling, and I don't think the fan base wants to walk away from it feeling the way they did after North Western a couple weeks ago.
31:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just remember Grant, and we talked about it on the IU report, when you say this team should be ranked, I think a big part of why it's not is because,
31:16
[SPEAKER_01]: If they had a number next to their game and Indiana one on the road, it's going to change a lot of the narrative that people are trying to put out there that we needed to play nobody because I'm telling you right now regardless, if Alabama beats Georgia, if even if Indiana wins on Saturday, Georgia will not fall behind Indiana in the ranking.
31:44
[SPEAKER_02]: 100% agree with you.
31:45
[SPEAKER_02]: It is the most broken thing I've ever seen in sports.
31:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what the solution is for it other than.
31:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Other than do pay attention.
31:57
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an antiquated poll.
31:59
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a system that doesn't matter.
32:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Just start paying attention when the college football playoff poll comes unfortunately.
32:06
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a human element there and they are using the AP for
32:14
[SPEAKER_01]: you really can't take this poll seriously anymore.
32:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Tennessee, like we talked about, exist just to be ranked 15th so that the NSEC team gets a ranked win.
32:29
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be eight and four.
32:31
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to lose to every good team they play, and they're going to be ranked somewhere between 15th and 24th.
32:38
[SPEAKER_01]: the whole time.
32:39
[SPEAKER_02]: And also, Mike, no matter what happens, Missouri will still be in the top 25.
32:46
[SPEAKER_02]: At every place on Saturday.
32:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I text with the local radio affiliate here in Louisville, sometimes.
32:53
[SPEAKER_01]: And before Missouri had their impressive win on Saturday, you have to give them credit where credit's new.
32:59
[SPEAKER_01]: It's every day you need to wake up and ask, what have you done to rank Missouri
33:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Eli drank with, he is, he wants to put 24 team playoff because he's ranked 24th every year.
33:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that about wraps up this week.
33:24
[SPEAKER_01]: We will be back over the weekend to discuss the outcome one way or the other of the Nebraska Indiana game, which don't forget is at noon on Saturday on Fox.
33:38
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33:49
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33:58
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
33:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks Grant.
34:00
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34:02
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34:13
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