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Episode 6.34: The Weekend · Return to Glory - Nebraska

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: H return to glory. You finally say that, maybe we
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: should still say mediocrity. But I guess we got the
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: six wins.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is the last podcast we've made it
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: we've returned. Yes, this is glory. This is what glory
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: feels like. Man, Oh that was right.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Uh. I will say before we talk football, I just
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: want to say best weekend in Husker sports question mark.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, in the last in our lifetime, like like in
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: our lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: I could probably agree with that. Yep, it's I mean,
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: because you at the thing. National titles are always going
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: to be, but that's not on a weekend. I guess.
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  Speaker 3: It also was. It was the last national title even
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: in our lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: Volleyball, Yeah, there's everything complete together starting Friday night and Friday.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: I guess with the men's basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: If the women could have just locked it up. I
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: know they're without pots, but.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: There's room for improvement, is what we're saying there. There
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: can be a better weekend. There can be a better weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But it was pretty great overall. Uh. And we'll touch
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: on the basketball and volleyball games here at the end.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Can we all just like start here at the top
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  Speaker 1: and just relax our shoulders and just take a deep
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  Speaker 1: breath and.
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  Speaker 2: Just the monkeys off the back like Steve.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Young time and just breathe. Everyone, it is it is.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: It's over. The draft of eight years is over.
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  Speaker 3: We go.
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  Speaker 1: I went got up to the tailgate, had some stuff
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: earlier in the day, but got up to the tailgate
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: to watch just in time for like the start of
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, right before it, and uh Dak was
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: hugging me already like the thinking that we did it.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: We did it. He was saying, we too, going to
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: a ball game. I'm like, there is a whole quarter left.
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: And I'm talking about the game later.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: No, okay, okay, just get that out of the way.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Say what you need to say about Oklahoma, so I
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it again.
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: I called it wrapping the jump. I said their defense
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: is going to control Jalen Miller road. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: I basically called that game. I was gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. He said about as much about it as he
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  Speaker 1: did as much as he probably remember watching it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: congrats too, Tlahoma. All your boomer students paying off. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska pulled it off. We snapped the bowl game drought.
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  Speaker 1: We snap Wisconsin's ten game winning streak. We take the
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  Speaker 1: Freedom Trophy for the first time since its existence. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty great. It's pretty it's a pretty good feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: And I will say, like, celebrate it and enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it is unprecedented in our adult adulting lives. I
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  Speaker 1: mean kind of since we've been in college. It's it's
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: unprecedented times making the Uh So with all that came
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  Speaker 1: the field storming Dak congrats on correctly predicting that. It
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: came with at the tailgate, champagne popping and it's prey
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: for us. Uh it came with all of that, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the celebrating and and you saw maybe some
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: things on Twitter too, well, yeah, we just beat him
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  Speaker 1: sub five hundred teams to go bowling. It's kind of
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: a little more of like a laughable we did it,
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  Speaker 1: like let's enjoy this because it's been so bad and
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  Speaker 1: so horrible the last few years, not just the Husker
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: fans but nationally too. So it was more of like
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  Speaker 1: a I mean, it was a celebration and a celebration, right,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't a I'm not saying a sarcastic celebration,
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: but it kind of was that makes sense? We were
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  Speaker 1: we were enjoying it because yeah, we finally did it.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Like relief is the word that keeps We're relieved to
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  Speaker 1: relief celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I'm totally fine. I said, it's been eight years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled that I don't have to listen to another
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  Speaker 2: broadcast be listened to them and be like, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: program hasn't been to a bowl game. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what they're going to talk about during Nebraska games, maybe
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: the cour losses, but the bowl game was like, oh
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: my gosh, I did hear Jake but say so bit
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: about not going to a bowl game with this historic
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: program in this slump.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: He said, it still doesn't count as a one score
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  Speaker 1: win and we can't add it to that chart in
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  Speaker 1: so that can still come and be improved, obviously, But
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: you're right it the bull top conversation of we can't
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  Speaker 1: get to a bowl game, which every year just feels
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: like and it was an eternity ago that you add
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  Speaker 1: to it it, we can, we can cross that off our.
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  Speaker 2: List definitely helps us play looser next week. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's just that hump, like I think all Husker
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  Speaker 2: fans know, like it's this isn't the expectation, but this
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  Speaker 2: was the first step to get over the first hurdle,
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: and we did it. It's it feels good. And then
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: the hust the basketball game on Friday, Wow, what a
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  Speaker 2: freaking moment, and then the volleyball game after that and
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: Colorado lost. Yep, cherry on top.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was not only made a bowl game,
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  Speaker 3: but the way he did it's four forty five points.
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  Speaker 2: Like the offense looked great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks. I saw a sweet before this from
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: USC fan saying if Dinner Holger's same was there a
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: week before the USC game, they would have won that one.
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: I think so too, Like that just shows you how
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: bad Sarafield actually was, Like, like how this guy can
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: come in and turn your offense a complete one to
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  Speaker 3: eighty round like that in a week and a week
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  Speaker 3: and a half them like that, it's I don't know.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Can we can we just have a can we have
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: a data Holderson appreciation segment here?
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And what what he has done, like you said, in
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: such a short period of time. It's I guess, I
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: don't know. I didn't know what to expect that. All
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: we knew was it couldn't get worse, and obviously it didn't,
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: but we knew that there was a ceiling. It could
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: have got much much better. And I'm not saying everything's
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: perfect and our offense is fixed. I think that's one
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: of the most more important things that you have to
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: keep in perspective after wins, which we don't do a lot,
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: but it's easy to critique and nitpick and find little
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: things after losses. You gotta do the same thing after wins.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: So everything's not perfect, right, and we'll point out some
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: maybe the little thing in an offense, but it's so
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: much better, Like it's just so much fresshirts. It's it
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: looks like we're playing free. You can't predict what we're
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: trying to do based on how we line up and
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: the different guys that are getting the balls the motion
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: that I'll say it, I don't know what tweaks and
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: adjustments or made. Our offensive line just kicked Wisconsin's ass.
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin wasn't missing their best defensive player and they were
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: their lowest in the Big Ten and tackles for losses.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, it wasn't like we're playing anything any
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: Domina game. But yeah, you're right the offensive line. Think
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: about the sack. Dylan had plenty of time to throw, I.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: Mean to put up forty four. Yeah, Wisconsin, and the
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin's on a bad defense, I wouldn't say they're I
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: I think I have a fair average. Then some people
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: might even call them little above average. But Wisconsin too,
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: I will say, is not like it's not the typical
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin teams that we've played. Now, I really don't care
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  Speaker 1: about that, because they beat us the last ten years
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: regardless of who they've been. So it's still a tough team, right,
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  Speaker 1: But they're not. They're not the Wisconsin that we've been
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  Speaker 1: used to just getting ran on for four hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: a game. They still had some success though some of
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: the things they did. We just made so much better.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: We played so much better just top start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: As far as guys making plays and role as he
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: made that comment again post game, guys making plays when
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: they need to make plays, and not just making a
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: four yard run but actually like blowing holes up and.
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  Speaker 2: Evan Johnson Johnson untackleable.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was incredible one thirteen rushing yards and
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  Speaker 1: added another eighty something through the air and receiving, Like wow,
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  Speaker 1: now Dell, he's got his role. They complimented each other
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: very well. I mean he had he had three touchdowns
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: average over four yards of carry. It our run game
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: is what really I thought finally got established again and
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: opened up. But our past game was there too, Like
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: it was just a good compliment. Uh what what Dana
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: knows from an offensive coach? Something that Sadderfield didn't have?
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: Never has Dack? Were we too late? Like why didn't
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: we make this not not the whole Dana thing, but
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  Speaker 1: why why did you said it? You didn't like Saderfield,
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: you said it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I said it from to jump. I didn't think
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: there's a reason why Danny took this job. Like he's
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: sitting and retired basically, And he took this job because
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: he's sitting back there looking at he He probably looks
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: in the brass me like this is such easy picks,
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: Like you come in with a good quarterback, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: say great and yeah, like like he's probably sitting there
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: like this is so easy, Like you know, maybe for
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: the twentieth great time, we don't do a tight end
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  Speaker 3: screen here, Like I don't know. I think I think
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  Speaker 3: Rule probably called him and is like, hey, we need
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: some help on offense. And he's like, yep, I got
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: you to watching all the tape and stuff. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: this is gonna be one week fix. I can come
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  Speaker 3: in and do it now. Now, what do you think
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: Sadurfield sitting there thinking like.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: I hope I'm still a tight Ends coach next year.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: You think him and Dan are talking locker room afterwards, Like.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: I still my thought was saturfic as him and Rule
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: are pretty damn good friends. Yeah, and so with his situation,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it'll be very easy just to say, hey,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: and I don't know this for sure. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what contracts and the language and all that that's in
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  Speaker 1: Saderfield's OC contract. I'm sure there were stuff they had
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: to do this year, even because yeah, he's not unemployed,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: he's not fired from his position, he's still getting paid.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that amount is as a restructures
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: contractor right, like I would venture to guess that the
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: contract stipulates that he's the offensive coordinator get to get
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: his full salary. So if he is demoted right to
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: his tight ends coach position, which I think he can
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: still do a good job at, like it's hard to
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: the position coaches don't get talked about a lot because
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: you won't and we never will. Unless practices are open,
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: the detailed work and techniques and things that they know,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: know and do and practice, we won't know that he
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: can do a good job of that. He clearly though,
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: wasn't very functional as the offensive course or and I
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: think I think he'll still be around. I really do,
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: especially in a restructured contract role. And I don't think
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with that. I think that's okay.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: The thing the thing about is, though, looking back on
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: the season, if Dana was your OC, how many of
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: these games did you've won? You don't know why. You
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: gotta get offensive games. So I don't know about that one,
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: but Ohio State you would have beat Indianay one of
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: It's just.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: You're right. I mean that we talked about rule in
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  Speaker 1: the in the whether it's blinders or whatever it is,
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: the mistakes that he's made. I mean, we said that
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: could have been one big thing looking back on it,
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  Speaker 1: like why did why did we waste the first half
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: of the year if this could have happened sooner. The
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: the other side of that is that maybe Dana wasn't ready,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: and he hinted at that and when he has press
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: conference lastics, maybe he wasn't ready. And that makes total sense,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: but it it is. It makes you wonder, like, God,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: damn it, why do we do this sooner?
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: But provision is history. You know, there's no guarantee we
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: would have won those games. That's not again one game,
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: like I'm not gonna go nuts. I don't think we're
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: gonna put up forty We're gonna average forty five points
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  Speaker 2: a game this year.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: We are very excited now, yeah, everything that's happened, and
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: probably more so because of the fact that we get
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: to go to a ball game and it makes things
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: very easy to justify now of why things are going
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: the way they are. Rule and staff in the leadership,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: I think think of it as a long process. And
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: I know that word is very annoying to hear, especially
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: when you see coaches are getting immediate results at other places,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: which is what we've talked about fast two or three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to talk about what the season would
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: have looked like if it would end in five and seven.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: But now that we won, I I I think a
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: lot of people are just saying, oh, everything's good again.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I just think we have to just enjoy it. But
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: let's move on and let's get to the next storm
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: in the field. Great, awesome, like.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: That we could come out and get lose to Iowa
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: and then.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: In Autome you mentioned play loose Friday Iowa. There's up.
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  Speaker 1: There's the other way of viewing it as maybe we
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: just won't care about the game because our internal goal.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is what it's going to happen.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Our internal goal is achieved, Like we really don't care
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: about the Iowa game because you know, we're done, Like
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: the box is checked and we're going to a bowl
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: game regardless if that happens. That is very very red
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  Speaker 1: flag e for this program for the future, like very
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: red flaggy as far as his goals and and and
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: and growth development from the team in the program. That's
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: not a good sign. I don't hope. I hope that
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't happen. I don't think it will, but it's gonna
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: tell us a lot on Friday what we get coming
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: off of because of its significance. One of the bigger
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: wins that we've had as a football program here in
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Quice some time.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Do you have our preseason rank of the Wisconsin game.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: I'm curious.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think what we Yeah, I don't remember.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I mean we weren't expecting.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: No, we thought we were going to get the six win.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: But before this game, yeah, I will say like there
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: were a couple of things on offense that there was
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: one of the thing where it was like if we
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: lost this game, there were things that happened that because
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: we won, we don't care about. But like there was
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: that one drive when we were down in the red
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: zone and we threw it twice when we were up,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: It's like, why are we not running the ball here?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: It was like second and six and we threw the
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: ball twice and the clock stopped and we ended up
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: kicking the field goal. And it's just it was one
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: of those moments whereas like why are we not running
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the ball? I don't know how to describe it.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: That's one of the things though, what the air raid
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: is like he's not running a full air raid. You
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: can definitely see some wrinkles of the raid though in the.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Offense, Like it's it's the concepts with their what happens
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: when it comes to play calling for the good and
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the bad. When it works, you're genius. When it doesn't,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you're an idiot. That's how it's always been, how it's
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: always always will be. It works, it worked on that
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  Speaker 1: play call, it doesn't work and we lose the game,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: which we've been on that side a lot. We are
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: wondering what in the world what are we doing? So
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to that point, that's where it doesn't come back to
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit. If you're going to call play a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: certain way, you better know and understand that you of
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the guys to make those plays, and you're confident in
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: them to do that. You're not hoping and praying that, oh,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: this is what I think is a good play, but crap,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: we don't really have a left guard to block it.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: So yeah, well we'll just deal with it. No, I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: think Dana understands, and only for three weeks, understands what
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: these players are capable up and that's that's your job
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: as a coach is to put the players in a
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: position to where they can perform their best like that's
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: your job.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I think Dylan's best ability as a passer is ability
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: to throw a ball on the sideline or in the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: corner of the end zone. Because he freaking puts the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: ball like where a receiver could barely get a toe
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in bounds, and it's like the only guy who can
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: catch it is the receiver. Because there was even the
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: ones that got called back or we didn't quite complete,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: it was like perfectly placed.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about you guys, what you guys thought
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: about this, but I thought he looked like early season Rolla,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: like he has confidence back, like he was throwing those
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: no look what kind of no look passes like he
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: wasn't in this season like no I thought. I thought
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: he looked like let's say Utap or Colorado Royal War.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: It it's hard, it's hard. It's hard to compare. I
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: guess games and opponents and all of that, but he did.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: He had probably his best game of the year, and Austin,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I do I think that is one of his best
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: all these Like he he knows where to put the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: ball to where it's not gonna hurt our like our
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: like are. It's not gonna get picked off, right, it's
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: not either a receivers catching or nobody's catching. And we've
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: seen that all year. Even in game that he struggled,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: he still I think struggles a little bit of mobility.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: The other thing that he's he does and he did
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it a couple of times here. He can move his
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: arm angle like a lot of the really good quarterbacks
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: can like That's what makes it special. We've seen freshman
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: moments of him and will continue to see those a
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: little bit here. I'm gonna finish this year, probably in
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the next year, but I think Dana is a very
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: very very very strong mesh like Dylan's is a type
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of quarterback that he really loves in what he wants
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to do, and I think that only helps the whole
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: situation because when you have a guy that fits your system,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you can really coach him exactly how you want him
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and make him really really good. When you have someone
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you're not as familiar with, or let's say you throw
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson a data holders in system, Dana's probably not
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: going to quite know how to maximize Lamar Jackson's potential
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: because that's not exactly what he believes or what he
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: thinks in the offense should be surrounded by it. So
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I do think that the future is very bright for
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the offense, but we have to continue to show results
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: with it, because if it goes South. All of the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: negativity and the questioning and all of that is going
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to come right back up. It's gonna be there. It's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: not like it's gone and fixed because we just put
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: up forty four on Wisconsin like that was awesome. That
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: was great. But we have to continue to do that
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and build on it and moving that direction. Otherwise it's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it's going to continue to hurt and and we're gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: get stagnant at six wins, and nobody wants that as
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the program.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: It was the perfect quarterback for what hey, Holdriston want's
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: to run.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. When we took the shot to the
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: end zone and we missed it, and he immediately ran
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: the exact same play again and we missed it again,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: but it was like all right, like it was there
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the first time. I as, we'll see if it's there
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: again in the second time. I really like that also, Evin.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Johnson, I think all this game and hopefully the next
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: couple of two games now, I hope it helps get
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: recruits and players. I mean, you can't tell me that
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: if you if you're watching this game as a guy,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver entering the portal or a high school recruit,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that you don't want to be on the other end
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of Dylan Royola like you, you would love that. You're
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: going to eat that up. So I think I think
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the end of the year like this. I know we
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: don't want to jump forward to the end of the year,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: but at the same time, don't mess it. Don't mess
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: up what we're doing now and from now to the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: end of the year. Don't don't get blown out by IOWA.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Don't go play a bowl game and just get destroyed
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and look like complete trash. Because we got more practices.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Let's put on an impressive run here to end the year,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and that momentum is gonna be huge for recruiting and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: getting players like is say and they or Jamal Banks.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: We've talked about them a lot this year. The two
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: veteran wide receiver transfers that came in, they are solid,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: five the sticks out of ten Division One receivers for
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. They're solid, but they're not playmakers. They're
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: not elite playmakers. Or Corey Barney has a freshman he
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: has that potential to get there. He's I mean, he's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a playmaker and stuff. I wouldn't call him elite, but
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: he's a playmaker right now, other players are gonna see
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this and go I want to be a part of that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: If this could have went south, and we don't say
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: what that scenario is because it's not gonna happen, but
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: it could have got ugly, ugly, ugly. So that's how
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: big this game is. Just put that in perspective and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: how I guess big. The next couple of games are
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to keep it rolling and not just say, oh, well
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that was a one time fluke, which is what kind
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: of people thought after all these recent games. After the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Ohio State game, well that was a fluke that we
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: hung with Ohio State.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: We did not see the young receiver, the young athlete,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: which was revealed to be Quinn Clark. Supposedly. Yes, I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: also did not see Thomas Padoni.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, and here's my here's my comment. I wrote parents
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: suck and then I had Fidoni or whatever. I don't know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: did you guys see the.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Round?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I did not got parents suck and I don't I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: don't even know if it's his parent as a relative
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: or something. Basically it was.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Someone with the last name Fidoni commented on a Husker
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Facebook posting, saying, why is Thomas Fadoni supposedly you're starting
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: tight end but not playing in the game or something
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Basically said you basically basically comment and said how rules
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: ruined him and you've destroyed a kid's mindset and love
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: for the game. But I just basically went off on
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: playing had two snaps. All a game. All games. Parents
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: just suck. They and I'll just say it, society is
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: getting worse and worse and worse in this. You know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you see it coaching at the high school level. It's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: worse than it's ever been. Not so much the kids
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: are still kids. It's the it's the parents and and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: how what what they are instilling in their kids from
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a teamwork, team building mindset. They it's it's it's so bad.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: It's not good at any level. And that's what This
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: is a perfect example of your all these players are
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: so happy and excited, and you want to stick out
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and try to make a stupid post and for your
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: kid because you think that your kid's more important and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you're teaching him that it's all about me, me me, me,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: me me me, that's all you're doing. I mean, I'm
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: not saying for don condone that and appreciate he He
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: probably is like, mom, what the hell. But that's that's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that's what that's what society is. That's there's parents are
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: so protective of their kids, and it's unfortunate that the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: lack of trust and and respect that they have for
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: their coaches and and and other players right that they
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: play with the teammates that are out there and enjoying it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So anyways, that's that's uh. That was my comment there
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is that fans just or parents just suck fair. Yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: done shouldn't play it like Dak he said, like if
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you watch the last couple of games, he can't move.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's what I gonna say, is I don't
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: think that rule in his career. I think I think
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: injuries did Like he's.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you remember, it's like you're just not going to
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: have the same athleticism.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: How many years has been here too?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: This is his fourth year, isn't it?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Or I remember a couple of years ago he can
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: move like he was quicker than ship. Like, I don't know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I think injuries and and L can see that too,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: like you can't have him out there. It's it's kind
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: of like Tommy Hill, the dude's injured. You can't have
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: him out there either, like he's gonna hurt your team.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. We won by twenty points, you know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: To argue with the it's like, well that's what it is,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: all right. Yeah, I think that's prettych all I have
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to say about the offense. Uh, Johnson was a stud.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: There's the last one thing about the offense. I think
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: the main thing that Holverson changes you are getting the
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: running backs evolved in the passing game a lot more.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I agree, it's showing up a lot. I mean, Emma
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Johnson had six sketches for eighty five yards.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Yep. I think that's the main change he did.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It's also coming from a guy that all he does
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: on college football video game is throw to his running backs.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, it does. It's it's a it's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a very It's another added thing to our offense, another
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: added element that keeps opposing teams guessing on what we
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: can do. I thought Heinrid Harberg got involved a lot
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: more too.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I went to the sets and I didn't realize he
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: had six carries.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got a lot of red zone carries and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and and I don't know if they studied this, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like I'm a Saints fan it they were were using
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: him like Taysom Hill, like Taysom Hill is not like
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: he comes in like I would watch that, Like that's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: how that's how you utilize a guy like that that
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: has that ability. Get him in the red zone, like
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: that's where he's going to be effective. And it opens
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: up another element that teams can't stop when you're a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: little bit narrowed with the field, that you can use
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: when you get in the red zone as far as
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the passing game goes, Yeah, bring in some guy that
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: has a little bit of power and run to him.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So I thought that was very creative and smart as
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: well this game. Oh only other offensive comment that I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: had and is jumping back to Dana Holgerson And this
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: will continue to be a conversation, but I've heard it
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: a lot, come up a lot. What this contract deal is,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in the future. There's a lot of
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: unknowns and nobody knows. I don't even know how much
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the internal people know because they're still trying to finish
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: out the season. What we do know is Dana's getting
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: paid four and a half million from his buy out
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: from his previous head coaching job. I don't know what
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: we're paying him. We're paying him some contract or salary now,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: but basically so yeah, it's something not a whole lot,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: but basically that just gets subtracted out a lot. So
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: he's still making four and a half million, no matter what,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: right what he's doing. And if we hire him longer
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: than that long like in the next year, a three
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: year contract, two year or whatever that may be for
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: something less than four and a half million, and I'm
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not sure exactly how long it goes. We we are
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: his previous school will pay the difference for that amount.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: He'll still make four and a half million. However, I mean,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that's one scenario the one that I and I'm kind
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of surprised that people aren't talking about this or they're
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: brushing it over, like Danad Holgerson is going to be
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a relative, very known candidate out there for a head
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: coaching position for other schools. I think if things go
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: well like we want them to, if things remain average
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and you know, it doesn't get this is the best
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it gets for the next twelve games, then yeah, we'll
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: be able to retain him for something less than four
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and a half million a year, and he'll be our
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: office of coordinator. But that's not gonna mean we're probably
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: gonna be winning a whole lot of games. If this
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: thing takes off, He's going to get looked at. He's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: it's not, it's not. It's not even like Marcus Saderfield,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: who hasn't proven himself anywhere. Dana's proven himself before. He's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be a hot commodity. And when it comes to that,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: what in the world does that mean for what we're
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: gonna pay him as an OC if we want to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: keep him as an OC When we mentioned we've talked
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: about this, brought this up before. If he's a head
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: coach somewhere else and they're offering a shit ton of money,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: what what if I mean, what if I do I'm
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: not saying this is a scenario. What if him and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: him and Riola become a packaged deal because they mesh
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: and they work so well together, and no matter the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: school that he goes to, they can say, hey, I'm
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: just throwing out a random school. Alabama says in a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in a year says okay, debor Nope, you're not going
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to work out. Hey, Dana, why don't you and Dylan
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: come here and we're gonna give you sixty million combined
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to come and play here? Because Nil continues to take off,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Like what if that happened? I'm not that's extreme, but
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it out there. It's just the weird world we live in.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of conversation, a lot of ifs right now.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: But just keep that in mind of where this thing
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: could go if it goes well like we want it to,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: how we're going to work all that out now. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: think Rule is the right guy to be in the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: position to work through that. I think his political sense
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and communication skills have been something that we've always talked
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: about as being as strength as this. That will help.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And the leadership I think we have in Nebraska is
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: very strong, so that will also help. But it's going
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to it's coming if it things go well, if it
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: goes If it doesn't go well, well then we're talking
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: about something completely else. But if it goes well, that
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: conversation is coming.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: A lot just has to happen before that conversation.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to thro it out there now after
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: this when everybody's like, this is awesome, Dana Dylan all
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that we're so excited for the future. I'm like, old
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: your horses, Like, there's a lot that could go on
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: before we get there. You know, Dylan once again looks
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: like the face of this program for the next four years,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and we're so excited and it's gonna be so awesome.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, but with that comes a lot of other
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: ship that we got to be aware of. So just
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: take it day by day, enjoy it, living the moment.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I think that's what the most important here as fans.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Enjoy being a fan when things go well, because yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: it's it is it's something we have not done in
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a long time. Okay, defensive side of the ball, there's
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of good and a lot of bad.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like. Yeah it was. It
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: was a mediocre performance.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Our tackling I did not think was great. Again, it
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: was weird. Wisconsin did do a pretty damn good job
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of running the ball on us, and they just attack
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Hertzog again, especially early. Our defense is not falling apart,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: but it just it needs that reale if and not.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying every game is going to be a
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: stellar performance, but these games, as we know, putting together
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: complete game. Obviously, our offense did their job well enough
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: that we won by nineteen. But it's not like Wisconsin's
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: offense is very good and we still give up twenty
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: five points. We gave a their number one receiver was out,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Biden Lock, freshman quarterback that came in, and Braiden Lock
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: looked pretty solid. I mean, he looks solid, like it's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: not like he was. He was twenty for thirty with
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: almost three hundred yards. You know, they're they're they're running
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: back the one probably Walker, the leader. You only average
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: four yards of carry, but the backup came in he
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: averaged almost eight yards of carry. And so it's it's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: up to up and down, right, But that that when
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you win, you don't talk about it. You don't, you don't.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: We don't talk about how that probably. I mean, you
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: could argue that maybe we tackle the worst against U
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: c l A potentially, but like that maybe was our
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: worst tackling performance of the year and it came to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: one by nineteen. But that that kind of is how
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I how I felt watching that game. I don't know
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: what you guys thought, but that that was my opinion,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and so you don't talk about it. You just brush over,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you sand whatever. As coaches, I don't think they're doing
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that and they shouldn't be, but it does. I mean,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: we need to play better on defense. It Wisconsin missed
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: some field goals, like thank god they did that helped
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that they moved the ball and they did not have
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: problems moving the ball on us. So that Ty Robinson,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you know, is it in Rule? I think Rule gets
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: emotional every time he talks about ty Robinson, and rightfully.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: So you look back on the game, Yeah, you're really
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: happy that you won, but man, as a defensive unit, like,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it wasn't great. It was not great, and people are
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, come on, I know what we won.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah we did.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: But if our goals and our expectations for the future
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: are to get better, that defense has to get better
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: than what they played on on Saturday.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we never trailed, but we could have
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: trailed because the misfields weren't caused by defense. That was
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: just and Wisconsin did a lot to hurt themselves too.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: There were a couple of times are they fall start
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: or there's that one drive offense where we got bailed
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: out by a couple of calls that I don't necessarily
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I was a Wisconsin pan I definite wouldn't agree with
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: a couple of them, but there was some always like okay, yeah,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I can see it, but it was one of those
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: things where we just couldn't quite put it away, and
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: like you know, we got an interception, we got a fumble.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Both those players were good, but they were killing us
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: on the deep ball, and you're right at the run game,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: they're kind of killing us, which worries you going into
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Iowa because I it was absolutely running it down everyone's throat,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: only through it fourteen times and whooped Maryland. But yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: they also, you know Tyrouson's interview, it definitely felt like
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: it was the last game of the year. How people
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: were talking during the interview and they understood it was
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: the last home game, and I think that's what they're referencing.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: But it's like, okay, guys, like you didn't play well
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: and we have another game, Like I need you to
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: not be so celebratory.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: It definitely you definitely can't complain about it because you won,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: like you said, but Wisconsin could easily put up forty
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: four points too, Like like you said, they saw himself
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: in the flop the whole game. The defense I think
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: has not been the same. So I think the defense
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: is regressed this year. I think your offense is moving
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the other direction. That's what I think. But I agree,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I think that's pretty ever since, ever since the Illinois game.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think your defense looked the same.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if it has not gotten better from
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: last year, for sure. And I think there's a lot
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: that goes into that. You know, the three three five scheme.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: You know last year it's something new that the Big
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: ten really hasn't seen. I think you got a little
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: bit of a of a shock factor to the Big
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: ten and you know now that you see it and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: what it's all about. There they were having a little
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: bit of regression. And I talked about that is one
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: of the things the beginning of the year, how important
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: it was that we continue to adapt and be creative
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and in our bliss packages and on our alignments and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: evolving with what we currently do and not get stagnant.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And except where we're at a defensive unit, I think
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: we've done that to an extent because things have not improved. Now,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: when things are good, that's where marginal gains little by
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: little become tougher because you are doing well, it is tougher.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Just need to be better. They need to be better.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Like that's well when you.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Look at the because going into the game, Wisconsin did
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: not have an offensive coordinator, their play caller was the
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: tight end coach who has never called the play before.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: They're on their backup freshman quarterback, their number one wide
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: receivers out, and we were missing Tommy Hill, who we
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: could argue, sire Right's been better than Tommy Hill has
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: been all year. Like we should have feasted and we
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: did not. We were very like I think if they
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: don't miss those field goals, it's a totally different game
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: because all of a sudden, it's thirteen fourteen probably going
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: into half, or thirteen twenty one going into half. Probably
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: don't have that fumble which was not which I mean
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: that was not I mean the defense caused the fumble,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it was.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: It just it felt like we were I'm not going
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: to say that we were lucky, but we were here.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: On the right side.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, call it the fifty to fifty balls and.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, for the first time in a while, Yeah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: But I'm not I'm the whole luck and the like
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: balls that bounces our way like it does.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: It feels like that. I still don't. I still don't
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: believe in the myths behind a lot of those things
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and rules. Use the word snake bitten like three, like
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: five times in the last two weeks because I think
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: that's that's the word and the feeling that Husker fans
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: have had for several several years.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: But there's just it honestly felt this game was like
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: it's going our way today, Like yep, that fumble, the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: missed field goals they got they missed the field goal
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: on the second attempt after they accidentally ran the clock down,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: like correct.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I do think that's still a product though, of of
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: not the Wisconsin missing a field goals, the product of
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: our players making plays. It's just a product though, of
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: everything with the program, the way the game's going, momentum,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: they the everything about it like it's a product of
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the game itself.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Right, So.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: People call bad luck or whatever, like I guess it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: It felt like when the ball bounces off of art
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: or USCS guy's hands and drills us in the helmet
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: and then back in his hand for him to get
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: a first down like last week, it does. It's like,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: oh my god, like that never happens.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, I think. I also think us getting like
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: the huge lead a half just allowed us just to
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: like I think the pressure not was off, but it's
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: like okay, like we've got them in position. We don't
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: need to worry about losing this Bowl game thing as
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: much the fans. I think I wasn't a memorial. It
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: sounded pretty loud, but this is one of those games
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: where if Wisconsin goes up fourteen to seven, I think
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: this the stadium just dies.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: It's huge. It was a huge game. And I found
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: where we had it kind of on our importance rank list,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and I guess where we rank Wisconsin coming into the year,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: not that that really matters. Austin, you had him at
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: nine back, you had him at five because you were
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: huge on Tyler Van Dyke. I had him at six.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: But when it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Came to like importance, like we had the It's funny
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: we had the Wisconsin game like in line with UCLA, Rutgers,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: in USC like in Illinois like that that was that
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: group we you know, more most important games we had
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: like UTEP, Indiana, Purdue, Colorado. Guess what we won those games?
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Iowa is the other one that we have very high importance.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: So it's funny, like it's a just we'll say it,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: another one of those games. It's another one of those
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: mid big ten tier teams that any given week either
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: team to beat the other team, and we were the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: better team today.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I just feel like we've had especially like on the
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: defense side, but we just haven't had that game where
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, this guy dominated this game. Like there
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: hasn't been a stand up defensive player in a couple.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Of weeks ever since Cardio game. Yeah, I don't feel
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: like that anyone's like campletly control the game on defensive
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: side of the ball. Mm. And that's another I canna
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: say this. That's another fault about rule too is playing
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Tommy Hill when he said he said this week that
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: he was like fifty to seventy five percent and he
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: just wanted to play him because he thought it would
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: be the best option. I don't looking back on that.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: If he's hurt, you can't play that guy like.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: It's because he was the best overall rated player on
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the I get like, not that the reason, but he
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: was hyped up to be so good that you feel
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: like you have an obligation to play him. Same reason
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: with the Fidoni thing. There's an obligation to play because
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: he's his five star recruit. And then you bring in
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: a random outsider, not Dana Holdgerson did nothing with Tommy Hill,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: but he just is like, no, this guy's not good,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: like why are we playing it?
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Which it hurts your team like you.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Get blinded blinded. You get blinded by expectations that you
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: have from whenever you recruited the guy or whenever you
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: whatever you remember from the first few times he played
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: what they did last year, instead of actually taking a
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: step back and evaluating everybody that's out there. You get
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: blinded by it. That's why having fresh set of eyes
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: on stuff constantly it is very helpful with guys that
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: you trust.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: What is he hurt with? Is it turftoe or what
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: turfe is? What there is like it lingers with the
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: corner and stuff like you see you see all the
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: time in NFL, Like you can't as a cornerback, you
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: can't play at turf doe like And they finally stand
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: down and I guess defense looked better.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know, like and defense did not want to
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: say the defense looked better.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: But John Hole, thank you. That's my next next point.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Oh Mantle got a little streak going here.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Eight in a row, I believe it is is whatever
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: it and it's not like these squeezing things in or
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: it's it's floating in like he's drilling these suckers. Like
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: it's so funny where our mind's gone on our kicking
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: game from the beginning of the year where it was
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: at to where we I mean we were. We were
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: at the point everybody was probably coaching included, we didn't
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: want to kick an extra point, like we were done
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: with the kicking game completely. And now look where we're
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: at now. That's that's very impressive. And shout out to
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: John Hole for you know, physically, but very much mentally
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: getting to the point where we're at now to where
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: we were we trust our kicker again and Husker fans
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: do it, and it gets it's glossed over because a
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: little bit of it is, yeah, we're a Big ten school,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: we should be able to make field goals that we
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: should be able to make like part of it. But
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: when the stuff that was going on the beginning of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the year, but we couldn't even get a snap in
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: a hole down.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: It's very impressive where that's come along, and it's worth
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: noting it gives you a little bit of confidence again
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: for kicking in the future.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: There's there's no one on the teams to get the
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: transfer portal quicker than a Alvana though.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I guess I'm gonna say who cares?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: But I mean, I don't know what happened with John
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Hold though, because what game was where he came in
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: the first time and he just can't even make a
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: thirty yarder.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: He couldn't make one in practice early in the field
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: goal in practice, so and it's weird.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Kicking is like because it's like you got to recruit
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: me be a kicker, you know, He's not like but
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, you want to hold practice out
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: making and it's like that's all just to do this
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: is all he does.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Like it's a lot of the yips, and you know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I think, how do you how do you get yourself
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: out of the yips? And golf, You just gotta keep practicing,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: You gotta you have to just keep going at it
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and put in more time and time and time. If
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: it's something you're truly passionate and that's your that's your
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: passion like that, that's what that's what John Hold did.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: That's your that's your job. That's why you got recruited.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: You know you can do it, but you have to
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: put in the time and effort to get there. So
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: it is, it's impressive with what he was able to do.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: So with all of this, what year is a freshman?
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: This year Johnald's a freshman. Okay, so yeah, you'll you'll
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: bring him back again, Like, okay, that's good.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: With all of this, the thing that gives me the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: most hope and I think I was going to tell
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: us a lot, but Rule's best quote coming out of
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: this game was that this is the first and last
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: time when we will be celebrating six wins. I know
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: we've talked about Rule guaranteeing and saying things before. I
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: just I think that's not that's not being cocky, that's
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: just basically laying it out that we're going to celebrate this.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: We're gonna it's been hard to get here, but we've
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: been Now we're here.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: We're here, and we shouldn't we shouldn't have to do
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: this again, like it celebrating this. We need to. But
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: at the same time, it kind of is it's kind
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: of shitty that we're celebrating getting to a ball game,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Like it just sucks. That's where we're as a program,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and we don't ever want to be here again, so
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: let's continue to build on it. Like that's the message
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: that that line. It's very it's very it's one sentence,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: but it's very powerful in everything that it means for
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: how everybody, I guess should be thinking about it and
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: enjoying it. They do. There's there's fans out there that
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I think it's ridiculous that we store in the field
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: that that shouldn't even have been questioned, and it's stupid
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: that we're celebrating it, Like what why Why is our
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: expectation that it is to make a ball game? Why
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: is that our goal?
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: But what one is?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's where we're at. What do you want
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: to be? So with Scott Frost, I mean there were
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: times that I I was I wanted us to lose
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: so that he would get fired and everybody would get
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: to that point, right, We're we're not there with the rule.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody is. I don't think like there's questions, but nobody
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: was like I hope we lose a rule can get
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: the hell out of here. Like that wasn't that wasn't
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the the vibe yet, but it was getting there. It's
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: just basic. Could let people move back to wherever they
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: want to be on the spectrum of the hope and
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the potential for the football program under rules tenure, And
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: here we are. So I think that was a very
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: very powerful line. Means a lot. It's been floating around
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: a lot. I think that it's true to where we're
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: at right now. Anything else more else specific about the game,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: because I didn't tell you we're going to do this
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: next little topic, but it's worth doing based on that
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: real comment. So since we're enjoying it and we're gonna
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: love it, we're gonna be happy with it. Let's talk
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: bowl games, Let's talk locations, let's talk.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: You're going in December and January this year?
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately I won't be going.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: There's one opponent Hunter will go to.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: There's one that I will heavily consider, not gonna say will,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: but we'll have a lot more sway if we have
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: a battle of dak in Hunter, oh Nebraska. So here, here,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: here's what here's what we've heard and this is. This
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: has been out there a lot now, both projections that
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: have come and gone, oh here in the last several weeks,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: and we've been in it, guaranteed in it when we
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: were five and one, and then now the last couple
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: of weeks we've been projected not to make it. But
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: here is and this is from college football news background.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people probably know this. Bowl
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: games are tied to conferences, and basically, the bowl games
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: get to drafts and they get a pick and there's
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: an order to how it goes, and as long as
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: you're bowl eligible, you're eligible to be there. There's conference affiliations. However,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: this year is weird because the four former Pac twelve
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: teams Oregon, U c l A, USC, and Washington are
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: also eligible for the former Pac twelve both ties and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: affiliations which were contracted in and remained in contract through
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: this year. So there's another element that those teams teams
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: which Oregon obviously is well eligible, they're probably going to
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the playoffs that nix is them, but Washington, USC and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: U c L A, who are all teetering right around
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: that bowl eligibility mark, and maybe a couple of them
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: are I'm not entirely sure.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: He's done, right, I don't, I don't, I don't know.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna look at that.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: So not that that's the end all be all the
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: conversation here. But those teams all can make, but there's
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: four five other goals that they could fall into, so
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: they're eligible to get drafted in those. I don't know
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: how that order goes, but anyways, playoffs obviously come first
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: because obviously a guaranteed Big Ten team to make the playoffs,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: probably expecting two or three teams. I doubt that we
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: get to four in the Big Ten. I think that
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: would be a put or a stretch to get four
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: in this year. But we're probably thinking, I don't know,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: could it could you're right one Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Penn State. I mean that that would be your four
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: yea that we're talking about. That all maybe could get in.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: But if you know one of those don't, I guess
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: the first I would say they're probably going to be
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the first pick. The first pick here is the cheese
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: at Citrus School, and that is going to be against
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: an SEC team. I would guess that if one of
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: those teams don't get in, like I said, that's that's
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: where they're going that. The next one is the relya
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Quest Bowl also verse an SEC team that one is
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: played in.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: As a boy, I kind of think where that is.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I I don't know where that's at. I was find location,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Decide doesn't have it, but it's on December thirty first.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: But Duke's Male Bowl is the next one that gets
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: to pick. This is one that we've seen some people have.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: That one's in Carolina's.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Relia Quest is in Tampa's.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: In Tampa, Okay. So there's a Tampa Bowl that would
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: be like, I don't know that. I mean, that'd be ambitious,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: But I think the importantly to talk about here, and
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: they talked about it a little bit on the postgame show.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Because of the way our fans travel, and especially if
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: we beat Iowa and our momentums rolling our like win
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: total value versus being six or seven is it's inflated
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: by about one and a half. We're viewed as like
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: a seven to eight win, nine win team to these
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: bullpickers because of how we're going to travel and generate
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: revenue for the bowl game. So rely Quest Bowl versus
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: SEC team, that one's in the Carolinas, Duke's Mayo No, sorry,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: that one's in Tampa. Duke's Mayo Bowl is the one
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: to gainst an ACC team in the Carolinas. The Music
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: City Bowl. That one's in Nashville. That's also an SEC opponent.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I think the general is we're going to be in
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: one of those three.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they say that that's probably the end of the line,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and we get picked before it. Because that was seven bowls, correct,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: six bowls you listed off?
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: There's that, that's four. That's four I listed up there.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: So just to look at who's bowl eligible right now
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: in the big ten, let's just let's let's throw the
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: scenario out there that those four get in. I mean, here,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: here's here's your options right now there, and there's quite
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a few. So, I mean, USC is bull eligible now,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and so is Washington. So those are two teams that potentially,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I would guess are probably gonna fall in those pack
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: twelve bowls. Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers are all eligible
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: There's several, So they'll pick Nebraska over those guys.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: We'll see, Like, I mean, Illinois obviously branked. They're eight
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and three as well, but you when you're when you're
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: picking this ball game, are you saying, Okay, well Illinois
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: beat Nebraska, so Illinois better than nebra. We want the
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: better teams. We want Illinois to come to to Tampa.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Because you know that that makes sense. I don't. I
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: don't think they think about it that way. I think
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: people can get upset about it, but I don't. There's
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: bowl games are independent. It's not like nca A tournament seeding.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: They're they're they're thinking about the revenue and the matchup
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: and who they play. I don't think when you look
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: at a matchup that Illinois is anymore intriguing to play
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: a l s U in Nebraska LSU. But in it
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: that way, so I do think it's gonna be probably
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: one of those four. It's not like they rank the teams,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: and I don't think that's how that works. Maybe I'm
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: wrong on that, But the Pin Stripe Bowl in New
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: York guaranteed rate bowl. I have no idea where that's that.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: That's against a Big twelve team. That'd be the one
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: that maybe we could play against k State, which would
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: be kind of fun. And then the last one is
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: the game above. Sports Bowl couldn't tell you against a
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: MAX school that has that has Rutgers name written all over.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: It, Minnesota, like they played in that Bowl again last years.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: In Arizona, Okay.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: So anyways, those are our options where we could go.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: I got my uh Nebraska or Huskers tickets announcement on
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: on how to apply for tickets and get those again.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll be able to go, but uh,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: it's fun. We've never done this before on the podcast.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Since we started and looked at where all these bull
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: games are and what time they are and who it
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: could be against. I do think like opponents that would
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: be fun to play. I think Oklahoma would be fun
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: and that could be a potential matchup. A lot of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: these are SEC schools, acc I think we're going to
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: get paired with somebody that we're probably going to be
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: an underdog against.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: I'm just.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: That's the one. I think that's in places Miszoo. I
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: would love for in Braska Oklahoma, but I think it'll
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: be Missouri.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be an maybe that one. We could
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: be favored, and I just think we're probably gonna be
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: an underdog just because of us getting inflated a little bit,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: because of our fans but that that makes the opportunity
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: that much greater. Show what we can do with this
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: extra practice time and rule setate we spent or we
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: missed out on it. It was over one hundred practices
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: in the last eight years. You don't think that matters.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Practice. We're talking about practice. Yeah, yeah, good to be bowling.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: And then men's basketball absolutely lockdown Creighton amazingly. I apologize
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: to my Huskers. I had zero faith in you as
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: a basketball.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: Program, but you guys were all wearing blue on Friday
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: and red Saturday.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, let's let's move here onto basketball.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Books.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Why hatred for Creighton. I haven't thought myself to really
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: hate Creighton that much, but the more and more I
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: watch every year, it just increases. And what Hoiberg said
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: last week about the fans and about creating it, like
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: I was like, I listened to that comment, I'm like,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: that was awesome, great, Like I kind of laughed, but
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: then I started thinking about it. And then I watched
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that game and then we kicked their ass, and I
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: watched the fans and I'm like thinking myself, Okay, these
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: fans are like, remember these are Husker football fans, Like
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: they a lot of them, are not all of them.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: There's some Iowa fans that are creating fans. There's more
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Iowa fans and people probably think in Omaha. But you
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: start thinking about that, I'm like, you know what, all
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: these fans and I've talked about it a lot of
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: this podcast, and I think the fans are a big
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: problem of where we're at a Huscar football.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: I think it is.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I think are fans and everything that goes with it,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: but expectations, pressure, real, unrealistic hype on these players and
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and therefore this downward spiral. And I'll say it, let's
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: go back to why, why the hell did we ever
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: get away from being this national title contender? Well, the
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: fans got bored. We got bored of winning back in
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: We got bored because we were so good, and so
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: we decided to change everything up. And fans went nuts
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: when Callahan came here and changed everything up, which is
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: guess what Wisconsin just is doing right now. So our fans,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: I think are a big part of the problem. But
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I started to think more about it. I'm like, it's
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the Creighton fans, It's the Jaskers that are the problem.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: It's the ones that I'm I'm generalizing this. Not everybody
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: falls into this bucket. I'm not calling out.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: No, just dig in.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: But I'm passionately I went and I'm gonna keep that.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe I won't, but we'll see. Creighton are. And I'm
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: not saying all white collar people are bad people, but
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: they're the white collar Everything's given to me. I don't
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: want to hard. I look at Stephen Ashworth, I'm like, yep,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: that's you. I look at Culburner, I'm like, yep, that's you.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: The ones that complain, they make excuses. I watch that.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: You see it all They don't. They don't want to
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: put in the extra, they don't want to be determined.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I watched that and I was thinking, this is white
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: collar versus blue collar. This is big town versus small town,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: even though Lincoln's not I mean, Lincoln's our second biggest
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: city in Nebraska. But it's the Creton fans that that
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: drink the kool aid and do all the stupid hoorrah expectations,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and then when it comes to the game, they pal
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and they don't like to cheer loud and and they
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: just get all you know, they think they're all on.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: I'll say it they have all the money, so they
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: didn't think they can just throw the money around. And
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I'm generalizing. I'm generalizing, but I think those are the fans.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: They're the problem. They're the ones that are hurting Husker football.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: And I like it was hitting me all at once
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: watching and I'm like, god, I want to beat them
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: so and so when we won Friday night, it was like, oh,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: it was so good.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: I have it.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I'm I have not hated Creighton really, but now I
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: kind of do. Like I I started realizing watching it,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to keep the blue and the red
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: colors and the political off off of the podcast. But
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: that also hit home with me. It just a lot
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: of it. It just was very real to why this
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: fan opinion that I have, who they are, the type
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of people that I know fall into that category. And
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: my certain like friend circle like, yeah, it's it's the Jayskers.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: It's they're the problem. And so after that game got over,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, stay up in Omaha, don't come down to
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the game, keep your blue on, go cry a hole
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And I hope you do that and stay
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: away from the stadium. I don't want you here. Uh
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: that's that's my Jaysker take. I think they're the problem,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to make sure that's clear. And it's
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: great beating you. It's great to keep the state red.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: It is it? Oh man? I hit home and I
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: right now I'm stuck on that take. I'm like, I'm
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: so tunnel visioned on it if you listen to this
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: in your a Jaysker, but it's the truth right now
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: in my mind.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Uh gosh, it feels good. I also just I've never
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: liked the Blue Jays. I'll root for them in the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: tournament when Nebraska is not there because it's like, well,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: this is what we got and.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not anymore. I kind of did a little bit, but.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not devastating with it. It's like, yeah, if Creaton
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: could advance, that'd be cool, but I'm not watching their games.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: McDermott. I don't like.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Freaking lockdown Colchbreader zero for one for field goal and
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: our team is small, like, I mean, we're not.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Brax and Mea going up against him and us is
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: styling the crap and we had three guys in bout
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: trouble against them. We're just here, just and he was
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: just bitching the way he whinding, I'm like you like that,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: That's why all this stuff came out on like we
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: have these blue collar like we have this guy with
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: a mullet from North Dakota State and all you're gonna
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: do is whine as we're kicking your ass. I'm like,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: this is what this is all about.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I love like we got up big somehow, Like it
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: just it wasn't like we did anything incredible. It's just
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: on defense we were able to keep them out of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: their flow and call Brenner's kind of their offense, and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: then we just got this big lead. And sure Creton
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: did chip into a little bit. I think they pulled
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: it with it.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think it got blown nine ever, because because
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: because during the game when it got denied, we're like,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: oh boy, here we go.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: But then it's just like, no, no, we're stepping on
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: your freaking throat.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Like we out coached the crap out of the bred
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Weiberg six and eight.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: Against franked opponents the last two years. Right, that's pretty
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: freaking good.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so impressive. And I'll continue to give this guy
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: praise because I love watching him when I go to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: games and then on TV, Nate Lenzer is a damn
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: good defensive coach. He's one that sits on the end
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: of the bench. He's always in the moment, always energetic,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: he knows exactly what he wants with his identity of
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: his system, and he knows how to coach it. I'll
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: be honest, it's different than how I think as a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: basketball coach. Defensively, the our Nebraska defense is very schematic.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: It's their scout obviously involved a lot of it, but
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: it's very very schematic based. I'm gonna run this and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it tough for you to score on it.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Versus I guess how I like to think is I'm
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: gonna take away what your players do and we're gonna
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: adjust what we do to make sure that these people
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: aren't able to beat us. Obviously, every different level it's different.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: I think the higher up you get, the more schematic
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: based type defenses work. And he's doing a tremendous job.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: What I loved about the way we guarded Calk Brenner
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: and their stats leading up to the game, and God,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad we don't ever play him again because
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I hate watching him. We we've we've held them. I
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: can't remember the stats. I was like twelve eight and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: eleven or something in the last three years, like basically
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: held him in check based on what he averages the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: past few years. We guarded him completely different this year
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: than we have those three years. Think about that from
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: a coach's perspective. You stopped this guy doing what you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: know how to do well last year when Lenzer was here,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: and I think maybe the year before that doing it
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: a certain way. This year you come in with a
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: different approach to stop him. But guess what, it worked
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: the best of all of them. And because that approach
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: this year, and just to specify what it was, last year,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: we did a lot of sitting on the high side
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: behind and it worked well against e. D two and
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: when when Culburner caught it, we automatically doubled and swarmed it.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: This year, we just fronted the crap out of him,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: and then backside had a guy sitting right there. They
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: couldn't even get the ball into him. So what did
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: that do? It forced him to come outside and now
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: he had they had to run some player the ball
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: and they still couldn't give him the ball. And then
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: when he did get the ball, we found the crap
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: out of him, made him go to the free throw
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: line and he missed free throws and he's normally a
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: good free throw. Oh it was just so good.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: And you played, I mean you played thirty nine minutes
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: and had one field goal so good, so good, Oh
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: my gosh.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: Like you said, they couldn't even get the ball to him, like.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: No, And so then when when you're when you're as
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: an offense, when you're going against that, and then you go,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: we can't get the ball. I guess we're gonna start
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: shooting threes.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Well guess what.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: They weren't making them early on which this last year
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: different story. They shot the crap out of it against
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: us and they ran out of the gym. This year
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: they didn't, well well okay, then you go, we're not
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: shooting it. Well okay, well we gotta get the ball inside,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: but we can't. So I got they gotta keep shooting it.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: It's so hard. Then you just get so mentally out
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: of it from Creighton was and it was so awesome
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: to watch because you could tell McDermott was like I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: don't know what to do, like it's it's like we're done.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: It was a awesome it was so fun to watch,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: and I kept saying, like, there's no way we're gonna
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: still not blow this. We're gonna We had a.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Couple We did have a couple of scoring droughts. We
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: had two three plus minute scoring routes. Yep, that's scary.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: That's not gonna work against every team. But we luckily
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: had gonna plead.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: The bract was on like at one point, like an
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: eleven oh run for like seven minutes, which is nuts.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Like like like creating a nine points with like eight
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: seven minutes left in the first half, right, it's oh, So.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: It was our offense did not win that game, where.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: The defensive performance was nuts. That that was someone from
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: you is probably the best they've ever saw. It was
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: now years ago. It was the same thing, though.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: It was on offense. We found ourselves though, I will
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: say and while it wasn't our greatest offensive game, I
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: think we found some things that you can build off of,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Like Bryce Williams is mid range game. Creighton was gonna
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: give that early on coming on, tremendous job taking advantage
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: of it. Juwan Gary was actually then able to play
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: off of and I'm gonna say it Connor season who.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: They said it. They said it on the radio, they
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: said it on TV. It got a little case a
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: rolling him. He came off a couple of screens. And
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: it has another good mid range game too. You get
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: guys like that that can do that. All of a sudden,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Juan Gary gets driving lanes. They are able then to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: isolate Juwan Gary on people because they get switches, because
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: guys are threats on the court to score. Now, I
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: don't know our big man, I'm not sure how that's
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: gonna work. We had, I don't know if you guys
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: watched close enough. We had Kale Jacobson playing our five
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: man at one spot. Ye in the first half that
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: you're but like, that's what I'm saying. It's it's kind
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: of amazing that we can just plug and chug a
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: guy like that in and and it and it at
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: work be fine. Like he was guarding cult prender this
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: This guy had an Ashland like So.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: I mean it, it was awesome.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't lose the rebounding battle. They had a
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: set like I just could not believe we were pickpocketing them.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: They could not take care of the ball, Like, what
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: a way to start the weekend.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: It was great. I sent the first round stuff game,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: turn the locations out, like where we going. That's the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: only thing I'm going to those no matter what, like
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: until we win this one of these dang things, but
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: it does. It gave you hope again. Obviously we didn't
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: beat Saint Mary's, uh, but that was a close game,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: and it was close. But this is definitely it's a
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: quad one win and it will be the rest of
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the year. Assuming Creighton plays well, I'm gonna make it
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: to conference play. Our non conference schedule is one now
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: that we have to take advantage of from here now
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: until we start the conference play against teams that we
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: should be able to beat. There's a couple of them
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: that have been playing well, but we we gotta. We
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: can't lay an egg and lose one of those and.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: Ugly, there's all. There's one more thing he found her
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: in that game is and that's goggles can't play another
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: second of the season.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: No disagree I did. I do disagree with that? Is
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: that is that you're preferring to No Gavin Griffiths. He
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: had a really bad turnover, really bad and back in
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: I think Gavin Griffiths can still shoot the crap out
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of the ball. I think he didn't really get a
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: chance to come back in because the season was playing
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: well like he came in and those two guys are
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: there are knockdown shooters, and because we couldn't afford to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: take Connor off the court, like Gavin didn't get a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: chance to really come back and redeem himself. He's still
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: gonna play. I still think he can shoot it. He
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: has not shot it great so far through five games,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: but I still think I still think he it's it's
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: gonna be okay for him. But we have he It's
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: like we're deep. We're deep with a bunch of average
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: players and have a couple of these average players can
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: at least get to a little bit like just playmaker
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: type people, then then we're gonna be in a good
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: spot with the way that we're built from a physical
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  Speaker 1: standpoint to this year, and we're gonna be okay going
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  Speaker 1: into conference playing and playing against some of these Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten teams, who, by the way, the Big Ten Conference, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions. Not great Rutgers just lost
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  Speaker 1: last night, you know, Purdue. Maybe it's still pretty decent
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  Speaker 1: and good. I think Matt Painter still does. There's just
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  Speaker 1: a really damn good job there. But there's gonna there's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of opportunities for for us to
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  Speaker 1: to get to our goals and what we want to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish this year. From a basketball team perspective, it's there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on, like a lot of good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get ahead of myself. So we
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  Speaker 2: break the Bowl game street this year. Maybe it's the
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  Speaker 2: year it could be.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't be breaking a streak, that would be uh,
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  Speaker 1: starting something new.
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  Speaker 2: Musical up in year, started something new.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. And then I was gonna say, and then Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like them either, not as much as I
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: don't like Creyton, But yeah, we beat we beat him,
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  Speaker 1: swept them at home, not only swept them, but kick
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  Speaker 1: their ass and all three sets, swept them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Dak. You did not watch that game.
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  Speaker 3: But no, it didn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool that other game I was watching. We
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: already talked about that, we said we weren't bringing that
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: back up. Here's here's my scare with the volleyball team.
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  Speaker 1: Like I feel like they're playing so well right now
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  Speaker 1: that we're not going and it's like, if we get challenging,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be like, oh my god, we're you know,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: we're not very good. We're kicking everybody's ass right now. Like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're working everyone. We played Penn State on Friday, that'll
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: be probably one of the toughest challenges. But Wisconsin's a
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: team that's had our number in volleyball in recent years,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just we're we swept them back like twice
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  Speaker 1: this year on the road and at home.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we have one loss. I expect barring the
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  Speaker 2: Penn State going game game going south, we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: a number one Seaton. We should be.
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  Speaker 1: Number one overall.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why we're not number one overall. Pitt
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  Speaker 2: has one Pitt loss, has one loss, and they lost
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  Speaker 2: the same team we did. But we have a we
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: have better wins if you ask me. But yeah, I
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: also worry about that where we're gonna get to the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: tournament and we just haven't played anyone challenging enough, and
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get one of those games kind of like
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: the SMU game where someone just serves us out of
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  Speaker 2: the gym. Basically, I mean that's how we lost the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: championship last year to Texas, and that's how we lost
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: SMU earlier this year, Serving just absolutely killed us. But
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's definitely some good volleyball teams, right like,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of them, and Louisville is a good
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  Speaker 1: but there's no one defeated teams this year correct, So
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's a little more deluded, just like
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: every other college board is now. But yeah, Penn State's
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: ranked four, Creighton's actually ranked five for News. Obviously still
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: doing well, but it's like Purdue, we just we kill
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: every time we play them. As the SMU, the team
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: that's won these games, they're still twenty one and six.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Like Texas, who defending national champs, they're fifteen and six
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  Speaker 1: this year. It's it's just funny. There's a lot of
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: good teams and not saying that that that were not
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: the best, but there's a lot of good teams out
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: there still that have a lot of losses, that are
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: very easily going to be able to get overlooked. And
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: this team, though, just flank so well. It's like no
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: team's even on our level and maybe the whole like
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: look at our recruiting classes the past few years, and
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: maybe we are just that much more talented and.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: It's just coming together now.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: We should just kick everybody's about every game, like we
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: should just do that.
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  Speaker 2: Great. I love it on a weekend, I think Colorado
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: loses to Kansas. Oh it was great, just the freaking boards,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: just being like Colorado fans being like, yeah, you guys
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: kicked our ass, but then we're gonna go to the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: playoffs and you aren't. I don't think so, man, psych.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: It's good. Weekend is one of the more enjoyable sundays.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Waking up I I, you know, prev for the podcast
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: and researching and then think like they were happy fun thoughts.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: So very good, very good Sunday, very good weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is also rare because I actually saw all
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: of it, like I it wasn't like, uh, you know,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: I heard its like I actually participated in all of it.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the best part of it. Yeah, you can
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: watch and enjoy every single step of it, from the
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: start of Friday to through today.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: I did pour my beer mile, but you know that
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: was Saturday morning.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: So Dak, could you beat Austin a beer mile?
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: No drinking, I'm too slow in the drinking. It's not
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: the running, it's how.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: Quick as I am for sure, the slow figer you know.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe not I can't so I can't chug
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: beer that.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Well you might have to do this podcast competition.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: I'm in.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: You can sum it up with what a weekend?
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: That?
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: That was it?
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: What a weekend? What a weekend? Dak says, all right,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: we'll be back Wednesday. Thanksgiving coming up, so we'll get
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: our midweek episode. Iowa pregame episode out and we no
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: longer have to be praying for a bowl him, but
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: we need to keep seeing progress.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: That'd be DIA, go b grad g b.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: R BO more sooner and.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: What school?
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: No, and say go Bigrad you're grad.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, m.
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  Speaker 1: M M
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  Speaker 3: D