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Episode 5.41: They Got It Right · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Turna Glory podcast Hunters Arbadickie, you're battling a little cold here with the code
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of free tag. No Austin for right now, maybe joining later Austin Ike
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just be getting kicked off the podcast. I don't really know. Dak Yo,
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what the heck he's showing up and talk about been shown up late and
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now he's not showing up at all. I guess you guys don't talk about
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doing Gabriel in Nebraska, doing Gabriel or the other twenty five quarterbacks that have
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gotten mentioned so far. I've I've heard maybe thirty five quarterbacks going Nebraska.
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I think it's unbelievable, every single one of them. It's crazy, and
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I don't know. I still have like my particular thoughts on the type of
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quarterback we need. Matt Reule does come out and make an interesting comment about
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the money and how we have to pay for an elite quarterback, and it
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was kind of I don't know a jab that maybe people need to donate money
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if they want a good quarterback. I don't know. There was more money
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given to Tony White. He got a six hundred thousand dollars raise and we
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secured him, which I think was very important that that that, to me
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is the most important news coming out from this week since the last time we
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were on was that we got Tony White. He's back, He's not going
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anywhere, and continuing to build on the defense. That's probably bigger news than
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any quarterback you can get. Is keeping him completely agree, securing him was
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at the top of the checklist, But I think right below that is getting
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a quarterback or at least actively searching for one to not maybe not replace,
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but at least challenge and and go at Heidrich and or Chebba. Not really
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throwing Jeff Simms in there, but yeah, the latest was today or yesterday
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was Dylan Gabriel and Kyle McCord from Ohio State both out there. Dak,
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I guess you tell me what you think, Like, this is a big
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topic and it's going to be until we secure the quarterback. I think the
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transfer portal closes January third, so we got basically a month here to to
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land one of these quarterbacks. What do you what do you think Nebraska needs?
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Like, what do we need? What kind of guy are we looking
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for? With the way you want to play. I I've always thought you
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need like a kJ Jefferson, Like a dude that can run, you don't
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need the most accurate passion in the world. And the even a guy that
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just controls the offense makes smart decisions, like I'm with Like you said,
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Will Howard was your top one, that that'd be a good one, that
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he's just smart decisions. Just just don't turn it over. Yep, that's
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mainly what you need. And like I think that there's probably a very common
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answer to that question from a lot of Husker fans. And yeah, the
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more I guess playmaking capabilities the person has, the better. But I don't
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know that Nebraska is a top place for a lot of these transfer quarterbacks.
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And some of the articles I saw, you know, there's the quarterbacks that
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we have no shot at getting right, there's the ones that are maybe more
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realistic, and then the backups to the backups. So there's a lot out
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there. Yeah, I mean a kJ Jefferson type of guy, a dual
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threat, a runner, I think. But the main thing is not turning
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the ball over. Well, the question mark of the problem with that is
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the guy that Matt Rule picked in year one was the exact opposite of not
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turning the ball over. And he continued what he knows how to do in
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turning the ball over. So why do you because I saw the list two
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of all these top quarterbacks, why do you think Nebraska isn't on the list?
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Like of all these teams that money or is it? I think it's
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a combination. Okay, that's a loaded question here. I think it's a
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good one. We have a offense and the style right now that's not very
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attractive to a lot of these playmaking quarterbacks. And on top of that that,
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I think the biggest thing is that we don't win. You haven't won,
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So what quarterback is going to want to come here to? I mean,
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think about all these guys that are leaving in Oklahoma, leaving in Ohio
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State, leaving an LSU league, even in Arkansas even like why why do
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you? Why do you want to come to Nebraska and quote unquote struggle.
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I think the money thing is something there. I do think that whoever is
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going to pay more money is going to attract some of the higher talent.
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And I don't think that we are on the bottom of that financially, but
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I don't think we're definitely at the top. It's hard. I don't know,
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like, do we have enough money to throw at Will Howard to make
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him happy and want to come here and be the quarterback at Nebraska? I
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don't know. And on top of that, look at how much pressure our
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quarterbacks always are under at Nebraska and scrutiny and now I guess it probably goes
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for a lot of places, but our quarterbacks are hated here. I mean,
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like we've talked about when was the last quarterback that came out of Nebraska
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that was liked, we haven't had one a while. It's been a long
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time, do you well? Yeah, like you Like you said, though
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all these all these quarterbacks have transferred from like the bigger schools. They're going
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to win a championship. They're not going to go rebuild a program. That's
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their main focus is they're going to go dry to go one year and win
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a title. And that's that's the interesting point to that is what what are
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what kind of guy is Rule and staff after? Are we after a guy
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that's just a one and done? Are we after a guy that we want
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to be here for two or three years and hopefully build something around him in
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this quote unquote rebuild that we're in right now, I think that's a very
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valid question. And I don't know what I struggle with that is that today's
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college football environment maybe is more of with the quarterback position, the one and
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done. You're gonna need a guy for one or two years, and you
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know what, if they're not contending for titles, they're gone. I mean
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the hell, look at Dyllan Gabriel, Like, look at it. He
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went to Oklahoma and Oklahoma had a solid year. Yeah they didn't get to
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the Big Twelve title game, but he wants to leave Ohio State. Same
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way with the Alvicord, Like, it's just one of those deals that you're
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gonna have guys come and go. What what year is col mccor Is he
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a sophomore? Yeah, maybe even a freshman. I don't know. I
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know he's young. That would be, honestly for the Huskers, that would
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be top my list guy right there. That would be a guy you could
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build around for for a long time. He'd be very sorry to my list
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and and the guy that kind of guy that we're describing here, And then
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I think a lot of Husker fans are after And I heard this on one
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of the other podcasts I was listening to and I really liked it was a
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Joe Gans type of guy that again, he's not He's not one of those
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guys's going to go out and grow for three and fifty yards a game,
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and we don't want that. He's also just going to be a safe option
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back there. So again, a lot to talk about and a lot of
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stuff to come here or over the next month with the quarterback position. But
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that is probably item number two on the checklist I think here, and it's
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a big one because the staff messed up on their first one and I'm not
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gonna say it cost us games, but it did cost us games this year.
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It cost us at least a couple. The other loaded question with this
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is Heinrich and Chubba. Are they good enough? Can they still function in
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this offense that we're trying to do under another year of development. Are they
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going to be coached properly to get better after a year. That's another question
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that could be looked at because they both had injuries throughout the year, they
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both had their opportunities. Heiner Carberg won us five games. I'm not saying
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I want that, I really don't. I think there needs to be a
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better option than that, But I don't think it's the end of the world
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for what we're trying to do. If quote unquote what we're looking for is
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the process and progress into year two, I wouldn't I wouldn't be mad if
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Chubble was your starting quarterback going in the year. Like, I don't know
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if i'd be that mad about that Harbor guy. That's he's got it.
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He's got to prove past me a little bit more. But Chubby, I
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wouldn't be mad about it if he's a starter. Yeah, And I guess
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passing and decision making, I guess is what we're looking for. So we'll
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keep an eye on that here over the next few weeks. Also got to
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mention we're heading towards the top of our off season Natty title rankings. We
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are every year already landed a force to our offensive lineman, Grant Bricks.
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It's great, just it's just a great Dad got We're not even we're barely
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a week out from our season being over, and all the media is just
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we're just we're just fired up about next year already. Well, how that
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that kick from Mile was basically noting through the upright Y Compton was ready tweeting
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about hearing him in the next six games next year. It wasn't That game
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wasn't even over, and he was, Oh, yeah, that's what we
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do. We're having a quarterback. You guys just win. Yep. Well,
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we have a lot to touch on today. There's actually quite a bit
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going on. Should we talk Let's talk college football playoff here because that's hot
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off the press. On Sunday they announced the four teams in everybody probably knows
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who they are, but Florida State getting left out at the five spot,
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and then Georgia obviously the sixth. Still a four team playoff this year.
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Initial thoughts, well, I heard about Texas way too much on the way
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before the rankings team started. I got three phone calls for my brother just
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about it, just before the rankings even came out. I was like,
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I was like, dude, how many times is can I hear about Texas?
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I don't care anyway, Well ship Orange right now too, the actress
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go big go. But anyway, I thought, no, no, I
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hope they gets smacked all day long or since yesterday. I've been back and
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forth on a Florida station made or not. They're undefeated and it's tough.
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I don't know it's definitely even undefeated team out, but they do say they
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ranked the best four teams and can you say Florida State's one of the top
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four. Nope. I I one hundred percent think they got it right.
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I really do. I think they they did exactly what they needed to do.
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And I know some people really disagree with the Power five champion going undefeated,
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and it shouldn't be about style points, but you have to read the
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criteria of what they're talking about, and just the general message is what you
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just say. They talk about getting the best four teams in. And there's
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no doubt in my mind that if you put Alabama and Forest Date on a
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neutral field, who would be favored in that game? And who would you
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pick? Is ask you to ask yourself that question, who would you pick
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in that game? If you had to put your life on you had to
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put one thousand dollars on it? Which team are you picking on a neutral
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site field? You're picking Alabama, That's not it, not a question.
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So I understand the frustration that, well, what else could afford a state
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done well? I mean, yeah, you probably just needed to win more
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impressively. Yeah, and Yeah, it does suck that you lose your quarterback.
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That's just the reality of what happened. I actually thought that maybe they'd
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put Georgia in over Texas for that same reason and same logic. Only problem
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with that was that you had to then justify not putting Texas in who beat
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Alabama head to head? So I think this was the safe way for the
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committee to go. Yeah, a little bit of controversy there, but you
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also have to remember the money thing. And I know people don't want to
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hear that reason, but think about how much money that this group passed with
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the SEC. And I know that's kind of hate that, but it's true,
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Like the SEC generates unser revenue, so like you think they're just gonna
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leave out an SEC team, Like, that's not going to happen. So
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I think they hit it on money. I think they did exactly what they
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needed to do. The only place that I would I would question is maybe
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putting Washington ahead of Michigan at the one spot I would have you know,
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I was thinking about that earlier. I was like, I'm like, why
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did they not put Washington ahead of Michigan there? They should have I think,
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I mean, what Mischian. I wish I would have watched more of
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that. I have a Michigan game, but anyway, from the scoring the
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status, it did not look like that's not impressive. Did you did you
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really want to watch more of that? No? I really didn't. Honestly,
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I'm watch enough, but I'm watching about five plays that day. But
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it wasn't from a resume standpoint, like I think Washington has the more impressive
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wins. I get it, Michigan's beat Ohio State and Penn State, but
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I mean, including Nebraska, some of the teams that Michigan beat are not
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very good at all, including their conference championship points. So that was my
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one thing that I thought maybe they'd slide Washington ahead of them, but they
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didn't. But we do have some good games here here for the final four,
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and I'm excited for it. I think again, the committee got it
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right. I don't think there's any question on that right now. And the
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only other thing that I thought of, well, watching the selection so on
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show on Sunday, wouldn't it be awesome if they just came out and said
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we're putting six in this year and said f all the contracts and stuff,
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we had and hope we're just gonna do six. We're making it a six
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teamer. That'd be awesome. It crossed my mind to I don't know,
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it would have made people happen. I never because pasts the top six there's
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zero controversy. If you put just those six in, everyone would have been
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fine. Yeah, that crossed my mind. I'm like, huh, I'm
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like they could have did that. And then there were again, there are
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four that people are kind of questioning a little bit. I think Washington and
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Michigan were the two locks, so you could have gave them both buys,
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and then I don't know. I thought that would have been kind of fun
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if they would have just unscrew everything we're doing this. It's the last year
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before we get moved to twelve. Let's just make it a six teamer and
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add two more games. But obviously it didn't happen, and that was probably
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never gonna happen or even crossed anybody's mind on the committee. But we are
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here, so Alabama and Michigan. Dak who's going to be maybe the lines
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are already out. I haven't looked at him much. It means Alabama going
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to be favored in that game. It's Michigan by one and a half,
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right now, Okay, I don't know. I think I think that tells
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you a lot though, again, going back to the Alabama Florida state thing,
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Michigan would have been a lot higher favorite of Florida State. Well did
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you see the reaction. Yeah, yeah, Michigan's piss yep, God damn
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it. They won in Florida State. And you know what, I thought
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that they were gonna get Florida State because Michigan's ad is on the committee.
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Yeah, and I don't know. I think I think Bama. I think
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bam Wall wins that game. But it's gonna be a hell of a game
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though. I think it'll be very low scoring. Yeah, I agree,
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it's gonna be a fun I don't know which one I'm more excited for.
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Because Texas Washington I think could be the opposite and be very high schooling.
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That would be a really fun game. You know, whe on that one.
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I do not Texas by four and a half. Okay, I thought
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that was surprising. Yeah, that is interesting. Hey, you know what,
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you know, who should pick? This is what? This is what
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everybody should do. The gambling world Vegas should just pick the top four.
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Yeah, I mean which which I think it would have been. I think
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it would have been the same top four if they picked it, it would
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have But the rank I think Alabama would have been one, Well, I
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don't know. You know what if they backed it, I bet Georgia would
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have been in. Yeah, which I think about them? Are we?
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Are we sure they shouldn't have been in Overbama? Well, I you can't
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put them in Overbama. But if you're truly just telling me I want the
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best four teams, don't take I mean, take all the wins, losses,
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whatever, whoever you played out of it. Who are the best four
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teams in college football? I put Georgia in, I put Alabama in,
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and I probably you probably probably go Michigan and you probably go Washington. But
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I mean, to me, those are the best four. I don't know
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if if Vegas were to rank them based on that, Like if Vegas wanted
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to get their best four based on people putting money in, that's what I
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think would happen. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe people think that Texas
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would beat Georgia on a neutral site. I don't know, would that happen.
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I mean, that's how you determine it. You go every head to
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head matchup, you go, Texas, Georgia. Put a line on it
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all right, then you go, uh, Georgia by six and a half.
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You go, you go, Michigan, Texas, you go. You
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go through all the scenarios and you Okay, who's the best teams in?
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And that's another way of thinking about it and doing it. If you want
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the best four teams in, take everything else out. But they do have
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criteria, and I think the way they laid out their criteria they hit it
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the best they could from a viewer standpoint. I'm I'm glad the way they
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did though, because it'll be a lot more fun watching Michigan BAMA than freaking
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Florida State. Michigan agreed, agreed, And I know that's not one of
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their criteria, but bottom line is, that's just a true statement. And
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nobody wanted to watch Florida State. They didn't. That quarterback was eight for
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twenty one with fifty five yards. If I'm being honest, I think,
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I honestly think ESPN might have that might have been some underground work going on
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there. ESPN would never do that for a playoff committee. You dot,
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you don't think that's all I got talked about the last few years that ESPN
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just is tied up with the SEC. And yeah, no, I think
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there was a little something going on there because I read today last night or
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a Saturday night after all the games went on, Florida State was minus six
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hundred to go to the playoffs and then about ten minutes before the show that
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everything flipped and it went fifty to fifty. Huh, Well, I've not
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heard that. I didn't realize Florida State was that favored to get there.
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Yeah, right after all the games got over, I was like, huh,
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I think there's a little something going on there. That's my conference now
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though your conference, your SEC conference, yep, SCC. At least I
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don't got to worry about not getting in anymore. I don't find anyway and
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hell of it put an SEC team in. Well, any other final thoughts
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on the playoffs. We'll do it. We'll do a bull preview episode here
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uh in about a week before the games get kicked off. We'll talk about
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some of the games we'd like. Maybe we'll do a little trivia on some
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of the Bowl game names like we've done in the past. We better talk
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Husker basketball, or maybe we shouldn't talk about it basketball against Create. Dak
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went to the game yesterday. It looked like a great atmosphere from the beginning
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from what I could tell on TV. What were your initial takeaways watching that
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game and we lost, Dak? I think, oh, and he's back
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there he is. Dak didn't want to give his initial takes on the game.
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Hello, there we go. I don't know what happened there, but
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no, that was I don't know. At the beginning of the game,
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Like you said, the atmosphere was awesome. When Case they hit that and
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won, I was that place about blue open and then right after that she
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hit the fan. It was awful to me that game did not come down
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to Creighton having better players us. I really don't. There's one stat that
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everybody who watched the game or looked at this tabs No, it's it's a
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three point percentage. Crayton shot the ship out of the ball, and we
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did the opposite and did not. There's a stat in the middle of the
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game that it was just blaringly bad for Nebraska. So the the hard part
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with that is I didn't feel like we were that much. Whatever it ended
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up, I didn't think we were that worse than them, But I do
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think we got out coached from a schematic standpoint, and Creighton did a great
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job of attacking our defensive scheme, which is very much force baseline. Trapped
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posts make teams basically shoot threes, and Creyton can do that, and they
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did that well, and sure enough, that is what cost us the game.
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And then on the other side of the ball, we could not get
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a clean look at the rim. And that's dude to freaking calf Brenner being
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a huge motherfucker down there, and and he is, but rank Mass struggled
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early and then we couldn't hden outside shot and then there went the game just
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slowly away from us starting the first half and then obviously into the second half.
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All they had was really a kids came down to the two players dominating.
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That's it, freaking Shireman and say, calcul Brenner whatever his name is,
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guy, that guy has no skill. He's just tall and I hate
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that guy. He had no skill, I Shireman was It was frustrating.
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I think you tied whatever Division One record for threes in the first half or
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maybe I don't know what the official record was that he tied, but he
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couldn't miss He couldn't miss it, and it just felt like our defensive scheme
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and straight did not was not keyed in on him. I do think a
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lot of that too, comes from when we beat him last year up in
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Omaha. Creighton shot like shit like it was horrible. They did not shoot
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it well, and I don't know if we were just expecting that to happen
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again, but it was the exact opposite, and Shireman was a big part
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of that. But Van Craig's got a lot of shooters. We knew that.
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That's why their models let it fly. They've they've always done that,
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so it was no surprise when it happened. It just felt like we never
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adjusted and Creighton had a very good game plan of swinging the ball on our
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rotations when we did trap down and getting an open look. So I guess
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props to McDermott and staff are out coaching Toiberg and I just don't feel like
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we were that much worse than what the final score showed. You know,
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if I had a team to bet ten million dollars on them, not winning
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the title, it'd be crazy because they are just do or die on threes
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and I don't think you can win title like that. Yeah, and I
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think from a physicality standpoint, I don't think they're going to be able to
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do it. I mean, yeah, sweet sixteen maybe for something like that,
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but I think it's tough to win six in a row in the tournament
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with what they have. I just wasn't I wasn't impressed by any of their
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like studs, even Tyshawn Alexander, Like he was fine, Like he's a
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solid guard, but he's not one of the elite guys that you need to
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win at all there. So it's not the end of the world for nebrasketball
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by any means. But the big I mean a really big game here this
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Wednesday against Minnesota. That's when you gotta win. If we are who we
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think we are and have potential to maybe make a run to make the tournament
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this year, you gotta win again against Minnesota, who's one of the worst
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teams in the Big Ten. You have to do it. And then we
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play Michigan State on Sunday at home, which don't expect to win that one,
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but it'll be another test to see how we match up with one of
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the top teams in the Big Ten. I think there's still a lot to
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be very hopeful for with this team, even the way that game went,
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and that would have been a huge resume game for sure. But I think
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these next two are, especially the next one, that's a resume loss.
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If you don't if you don't win this one, I don't think Minnesota's gonna
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be doing anything spectacular in the Big Ten. Yeah, it was just a
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buzz kill because you walk in now was like, God, damn, this
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feels like the biggest game the Brass Basketball's had maybe ever. The stadium was
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rocking, and then I mean it was it was still going midway through the
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first half, and then once Timon got high and the refts, good god,
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I've never saw a raft get boot out of the stadium like that.
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Holy boot them the whole way out. Yeah, it was. It was
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pretty evident on TV that's what was happening. And yeah, especially basketball officials,
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but it is very difficult, I think, to officiate a lot of
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games. All you can ask for his consistency. It just got very out
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of control. I think early on it was in Nebraska's quote unquote favor and
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and McDermott let him here, and then it flipped pretty quickly there in the
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first half to the other side, and and then Fred got mad it.
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We knew it was going to be a very high intensity game between two Nebraska
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teams, and yeah, neither side was gonna be pleasant with the officiating.
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But I just thought that it was funny because you could hear the booze.
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I don't I mean, I don't think it obviously made an impact on the
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outcome of the game. It was clearly Creighton's game that they won because of
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all the reasons we just said, But it was funny just to hear those
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guys get boomed. I cannot stands because I guarantee you go ask every one
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of them in that stadium who their very football team is they Nebraska. I
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bet there's more Iowa fans that you think. Probably there's a lot more than
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we think. I don't. I think yeah, because they're from Nebraska.
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I think we just kind of assumed they're Jayskers. But I I'll bet there's
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a lot more Iowa's. Like when I lived in Omaha, I was surprised
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the amount of Iowa fans that lived and worked in the Omaha metro area.
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So yeah, I thought. My biggest takeaway I guess was was basically,
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I'm not too worried, still moving forward. I just it wasn't like I
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watched that game and go ship creating it's like so much better than us.
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No, they just shot it and we did. I think that was the
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big storyline of the game, and that's that. Honestly, thank you Creyton
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for blowing the air out of the stadium because my head was pounding, so
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I didn't really want it to be that loud. Yeah, Sunday was.
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It was rough. It was rough for Dak and I when we first sat
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down and it was just roaring, and they're like, oh no, it's
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not gonna be fun. I had the option to either go to that game
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or the Michigan State game, and part of me was regretting it. And
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then I woke up Sunday morning and I'm like, Okay, I'm glad I
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chose the Michigan State game next week. This, yeah, that one will
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be fun. I the Minnesota games. That that that's massive, It's huge.
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I mean, it's the biggest game of the year so far. We
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cannot come out and lay an egg on that. Okay, Husker volleyball touch
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on that here. Don't have a whole lot. Besides, we won our
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first two games as expected, swept both it was it Long Island? Is
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that right? I really don't know sure? And then Missouri. We got
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Georgia Tech coming up this weekend and don't know a lot about them. But
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we are in the sweet sixteen again this year, as expected, and I
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think our path looks pretty good here to get to the final four. Obviously,
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we got to play well, but the volleyball team took care of business.
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I saw Wisconsin and Penn State have to play each other in the sweet
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sixteen. That's kind of funny. Yeah, what did they so? They
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play Thursday at one o'clock? I saw. I think that's right, yeah,
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little little midday volleyball. But yeah, I don't I honestly didn't even
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know they won until yesterday yesterday night. Yeah, I didn't watch either of
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the games. I did follow along and saw that we were winning the sets.
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I think Set three against Long Island was a little bit shaky, but
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we got it done and got the dub So all right, well what else
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we got? Dak We got fun updates on your Celtics. You know,
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no. The only question I got what times Peat play tonight? I thought,
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I don't they play next? But they got to be in the quarterfinals.
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Actually, when do the Lakers play? Are they tomorrow night? Yeah?
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They are tomorrow night nine thirty. I think yep against the Suns.
31:26
What we haven't talked much about this, We've touched on it a little bit,
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But what are your thoughts I guess on this NBA playing tournament or not
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playing tournament mid season tournament in format they did this year. We started out
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at first, I was like, this is kind of dumb, but it's
31:45
just come along. I kind of really like it just because it's it gives
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the regular season a little bit more juice. And and like that Celtics Facers
31:53
game night, that crowd was rocking. It felt like a playoff game,
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and for mid December to give them more regular season more juice. It's awesome
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what I love from a business standpoint that Adam Silver did. And I still
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think he is a genius. He's gonna go down I think at some point
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as one of the best commissioners of any professional sports league. He it's just
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so smart. Because when this topic came up last year, two years,
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three years ago, whenever it did, everybody was like, no, it's
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stupid, like don't do this, No one's gonna care about it. To
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me, it's gone about the exact opposite. And when we say care about
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it doesn't have to be in a positive or negative way. It draws attention
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to the sports in general. Yep. And the middle of or towards the
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end of football season that has tooken over or taken over America for years now.
32:43
There are people that I that I you know that I just talked to
32:45
and just hear talking on sports radio that are engaged to the NBA in late
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November early December, and I think that is the goal. Like everybody was
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like laughing at the court and how bad the courts were for all these games,
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Like who gives a shit? How bad they are? I love it
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people are talking about that's the thing. People are talking about them and seeing
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them and what good or negative press like that's what that's what they wanted.
33:10
And the NBA was once again hit on another successful new new implementation of something
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in their league. And so yeah, shout out to them and we'll see
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I guess what kind of attention it gets over time and how many adjustments they
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make. I think, you know, if you change it too much,
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then it's hard to keep track of wins and records. And like you know,
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the the Celtics have five have won five of the mid season tournament games
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over the last ten years. Like, if you adjusted too much, you're
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not going to get that. But I think right now it did what it
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needed to do this first year as far as getting viewership during a different sport
33:52
that usually has taken over America at this point. It had me pissed off
33:59
on it night mid of December by NBA, that's for sure. Yeah,
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And that's like normally how I am with NBA. I you know, you
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watched I watched them the first week games and I kind of get fall football
34:12
postseason. Then obviously Christmas Day NBA games are always fun to watch and and
34:16
those matchups, and then you kind of tune it off again and and let
34:21
kind of college basketball ramp up, and then you tune NBA back on April
34:24
May June when postseason gets back up. Well, this is this is keeping
34:29
you engaged throughout the whole year. And the NBA is a long season.
34:31
It's it's not short, it's eight nine months. It's of the year.
34:37
Way too long, well, way too long. But they're doing a good
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job of filling it, I think with with content. So again, shout
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out to Commissioner Silver, doing a great job. Better best commissioner in our
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lifetime, I think for sure. Now not if you can just rig it
34:53
a little bit and make Boston win championship. Yeah, well, they gotta
34:58
be paid. Gotta find a way we pay. Yeah, you know,
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bad game, that sounds a bad game. All right, we'll be back
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this weekend, probably on Sunday. Hopefully maybe we have a quarterback or at
35:17
least discussion. I'm sure there'll be discussion by then, and hopefully Nebraska ball
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and Nebraska volleyball still alive with a couple of wins there heading into next week.
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Did not go ahead? One more one more warning here, dealing Gabriel,
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I know you're listening. If you go to USC, I will not
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here for you. Any other team I'll here for yet USC I won't.
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So pick your poison. You better listen to him, Gabriel. All right,
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go big Red, We're sooner. Dif