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Episode 6.44: Coaching Puzzle Pieces · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast.
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Speaker 2: It's February twelve, Valentine's Day week. I am recovering getting
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Speaker 2: over a cold.
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Speaker 1: Austin.
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Speaker 2: We did lay a couple of days getting over a cold.
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Speaker 1: Dak is not on tonight, and Nebraska's down. I mean
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Speaker 1: that I don't know about you, but everyone I know
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Speaker 1: is getting sick.
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Speaker 2: It's been a bloodbath out here, and I finally on
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Speaker 2: antibiotic to kill off all my craft that's been going on.
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Speaker 2: It's been a couple of weeks now for myself. But
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Speaker 2: I'm starting to feel better here in the past couple
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Speaker 2: of days, which is good, which is what that's supposed
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Speaker 2: to do.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. You're at least talking today, that's good. We're
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Speaker 1: supposed to cord Monday and my voice was yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was not recordable, not good for the.
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Speaker 2: Mic middle of February, and everyone's sick. I guess that
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Speaker 2: makes sense. We got our first one of our first
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Speaker 2: pretty big snows today.
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Speaker 1: This is the only measurable snow we've had in Omaha.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like especially, it's all all that we've had so
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Speaker 2: far this year. So we're just getting the winter, all
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Speaker 2: the colds and sicknesses of snow in the middle of
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Speaker 2: you where you gotta love that. Thanks groundhog.
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Speaker 1: Did he see a shadow? I didn't even look to
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Speaker 1: see what Putsatani Fellows up to these days.
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Speaker 2: He whatever it was, it made longer winter.
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Speaker 1: I mean he saw that means he saw his shadow.
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Speaker 2: I know, it's like reverse what you would think.
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Speaker 1: Yes, oh so well. I mean, if it's more of
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Speaker 1: the winter we've currently had, it's not that bad. I said,
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Speaker 1: I wore shorts on Christmas Day, so true.
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Speaker 2: Pretty in the Husker sports world, a lot of a
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Speaker 2: lot of podcasts, a lot of news right now is
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Speaker 2: going through our our coaching staff and kind of looking
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Speaker 2: at that a little more detailed and giving their thoughts
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Speaker 2: on it. So I thought we'd do the same thing today.
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Speaker 2: I think it's worth worth pointing out some of those
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Speaker 2: new coaches and new faces that we have Nebraska basketball here.
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Speaker 2: We are just right in the thick of the bubble
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Speaker 2: like we were last year. We are, we are there,
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Speaker 2: we're currently in so there's a lot to go through there.
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Speaker 2: Uh do Let's start off with a little bit of
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Speaker 2: softball baseball introduction talk, since I guess it's here. They
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Speaker 2: played their first game already on February sixth. They're They're
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Speaker 2: five games in. They are three and two. They are
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Speaker 2: ranked number nineteen in the country. In the first polls,
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Speaker 2: they took down number six Tennessee to open the year.
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Speaker 2: Jordi Ball is back and pitching for the Huskers after
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Speaker 2: her injury. We have slipped up, slipped up for past
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Speaker 2: two games against Mississippi State and Texas Tech, both are ranked,
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Speaker 2: but two close losses there this last weekend. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the softball team was has been solid, right, We've been decent.
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Speaker 2: Last year, Jordi Ball comes in and unfortunately get a
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Speaker 2: season long injury and they kind of put a damper
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Speaker 2: on things for the rest of the year.
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Speaker 1: This year, there's some preseason hype.
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Speaker 2: There's some hope for the softball team.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Big Ten Conference is traditionally.
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Speaker 2: Average I would say at baseball, or below average at
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Speaker 2: baseball and softball. So Nebraska right now and especially in softball,
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Speaker 2: but baseball too. Here when we get to him in
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Speaker 2: a second, we're good, question mark.
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Speaker 1: I mean people think we're gonna be good. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Big ten's a little bit better now that they
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Speaker 1: have Oregon, UCLA, USC some of those warmer schools. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean Michigan has been good for baseball, but there
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Speaker 1: was a lot of hype last year until Jordi got hurt.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, just the season ticket sales,
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Speaker 1: like they sold out immediately. Not quite the same energy
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Speaker 1: this year, but yeah, that was a I'm excited for it.
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Speaker 1: It feels delayed. Last year was a good rush because
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Speaker 1: you know, we got Dilan Royal and then Jordie comes home.
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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, baby, Nebraska's back. Here we go. But
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Speaker 1: I'm struggling to shift gears to baseball and softball because
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Speaker 1: it just snowed a tough that it's a summer sport,
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Speaker 1: even though college I think think gets done too early.
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Speaker 1: It's not like I don't know about you, but every
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Speaker 1: college game I went to is always kind of cold out.
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Speaker 1: I never went to the Ones in May because that
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Speaker 1: was during finals week in the series.
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Speaker 2: It is the ironic time to start, as we began
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Speaker 2: talking about how we're just starting winner and then baseball
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Speaker 2: and softball starting up. Now, a lot of these earlier
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Speaker 2: games are not local has expected. The baseball team does
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Speaker 2: kick off on Valentine's game on Friday, Agains you see
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Speaker 2: Irvine and then they take on Vanderbilt on Saturday in
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Speaker 2: San Diego State on Sunday. Baseball teams also in the
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Speaker 2: top twenty five preseason Ranked number twenty four in the country,
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Speaker 2: they are projected to win the Big Ten from the
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Speaker 2: different people's preseason polls that I've been seeing. Once again,
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Speaker 2: coming off a very strong year, I would say last year,
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Speaker 2: we're still looking to get back to the College World
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Speaker 2: Series for the first time in quite some time.
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Speaker 1: It mean, it's tough.
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Speaker 2: There's sixteen region regionals, there's sixteen hosts. You know, you'd
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Speaker 2: like to host one to give yourself a better chance
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Speaker 2: than you got to win a super regional and then
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Speaker 2: and you know it, if you want to think of it,
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Speaker 2: kind of like college basketball, right, I mean, there are
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Speaker 2: sixty four teams that get in, but depending on your seed,
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Speaker 2: it's it's tough to get through all of that.
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Speaker 1: So the baseball team's got a lot of hype.
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Speaker 2: I I guess myself this year getting to know the
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Speaker 2: team more than I have in the past, just because
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Speaker 2: of the potential that that they do have.
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Speaker 1: In starting preseason rank is it's big. Coach Bolt's done
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Speaker 1: really well. Uh and you look at our schedule again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not a baseball excerpt. By any means, I'll watch.
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Speaker 1: I'll watch and listen to Nebraska baseball. And that's the
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Speaker 1: extent I'm not. I don't know what good college baseball
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Speaker 1: is until the World Series. It's like, oh yeah, but
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Speaker 1: it's always kind of the same names. But out of
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Speaker 1: our sixty ish games this year, I guess how many
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Speaker 1: ranked opponents preseason ranked opponents we play.
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Speaker 2: For games I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Well, yes, series,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. There's two teams on our schedule.
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Speaker 1: There's one and as Vanderbilt we play them Saturday. There
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Speaker 1: are no preseason ranks teams on our schedule, so I
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Speaker 1: win in the Big Ten seems reasonable, I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you're going based off of the preseason rank, unless if
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Speaker 1: they don't add those numbers to the schedule yet. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know why they wouldn't. Here's what I appreciate.
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Speaker 2: And I know that you don't play as many games
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Speaker 2: in well football for sure, but basketball. We have a
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Speaker 2: home and home with k State, with Kansas and with Creighton. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's local, it's those are I will enjoy watching those games.
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Speaker 2: I don't know we've said that about football. I guess
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Speaker 2: is can we can can our non can we play
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Speaker 2: some these more local rivalry type teams like I appreciate
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Speaker 2: that from college baseball scheduling that way. I know there's
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Speaker 2: a lot more games, but it's more intriguing than playing,
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Speaker 2: you know, a random Arizona team like.
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Speaker 1: Yep, and it's fun, especially like in Omaha. It's like
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Speaker 1: I can go to the UNO well, I guess this year,
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Speaker 1: I think they're in Lincoln. But last year I went
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Speaker 1: to the un O Omaha game, and this year I
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Speaker 1: could go to the Creighton in Nebraska game in Omaha,
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Speaker 1: I don't. And it's like a Tuesday night, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't need to take off work early to get
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Speaker 1: down there in park. It's just it's kind of nice.
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Speaker 2: And that's our preseason talk on baseball. I'll be honest,
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Speaker 2: I don't know many of the players. We did to
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Speaker 2: a forty and twenty two last year, and a lot
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Speaker 2: of a lot of those girls, A lot of those
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Speaker 2: players came back. We made a regional, we won the
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Speaker 2: Big Ten tournament. It looks like maybe eight of the
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Speaker 2: nine starters could be back, so there's a lot of returners.
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Speaker 2: I think pitching is the question mark. And on on
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Speaker 2: what we might have coming back there. But we have
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Speaker 2: Rob Childers as our pitching coach. Like that's that's good
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Speaker 2: a name that we trust.
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Speaker 1: Right, I don't know, I really like. I don't know
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Speaker 1: about you, but I like listening to Nebraska baseball on
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Speaker 1: the radio. I don't know if I really enjoy watching
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Speaker 1: it on TV. But it's one of those things it's
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Speaker 1: nice to have around. Remember I'm driving around in the spring,
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Speaker 1: I'll just throw it on the radio. It's kind of nice.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it's back. Hopefully the softball team does really
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Speaker 1: well too, because that'd be freaking sweet if we could
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Speaker 1: just Oh, I just wants to be good at something again,
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Speaker 1: you know anything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, another quick shout out here at the top super
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Speaker 2: Bowl cam, Jurgen's gates, let's go. Yeah, we throw o'shaun
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Speaker 2: matthis in there, but three three former Huskers, all winning
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Speaker 2: a ring cam. Obviously being from my hometown or close
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Speaker 2: to my hometown. I guess Pickrol at my high school
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Speaker 2: that I went to in Theatress and then you know,
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Speaker 2: moving on Nebraska, and then it was on Jimmy fallon
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Speaker 2: last night.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty neat.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty cool to see and a pretty awesome honor
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Speaker 2: obviously to win a super Bowl champion ship. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's it's a lot and Eagles. I mean, it wasn't
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Speaker 2: like it was a oh boy, tough squeak. It was
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Speaker 2: a they just kicked the Chiefs ass. And that was
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Speaker 2: something that you know, I heard and maybe thought, Okay,
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Speaker 2: that could happen.
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Speaker 1: But now against Mahomes, I'm like, I'm not gonna do
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Speaker 1: it until I'm proven wrong.
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Speaker 2: Mahomes or the Chiefs in general. Like like someone was asking,
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Speaker 2: what does what you worked down?
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Speaker 1: The position?
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Speaker 2: Right? What positions do the Chiefs have an advantage? And
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Speaker 2: maybe you could argue quarterback going into the game. Some
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Speaker 2: maybe the last of the game are saying not but
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Speaker 2: like quarterback probably was the one obvious one. Other than that,
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know where you would go. But
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Speaker 2: my answer was that I I don't know. But they
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Speaker 2: win like they know how to win. They find a
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Speaker 2: way to win, and there's no denying that out. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the game didn't they didn't win the game, But as
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Speaker 2: far as getting to that point, their team was not great.
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Speaker 2: They weren't great last year.
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Speaker 1: No, I agree, there's something to say. They definitely overachieved
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Speaker 1: this year and but they got absolutely slaughtered. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the only reason it doesn't look as bad as it
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Speaker 1: do is because the Eagles are like, there's six minutes left,
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Speaker 1: we have a thirty four point lead, We're definitely stepping
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Speaker 1: off the gas.
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Speaker 2: Nothing. It was I looked up as a team ever
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Speaker 2: been shut out in the Super Bowl and the answer
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Speaker 2: to that's no.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for nothing, but like eight minutes left in the
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Speaker 1: fourth or something like. I mean, it was killer. Also,
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Speaker 1: though I will say the Chiefs D line did hold
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Speaker 1: Saquon to whatever was forty fifty seven yards forty seven yards,
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Speaker 1: and there's just a D line coach will be our
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Speaker 1: D line coach. So that's something. Commercial halftime show. I
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Speaker 1: like the halftime show. I don't. I'm not, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not a big Kendrick guy. But I thought it
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Speaker 1: was fun. As far as best commercial, there wasn't really any.
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Speaker 1: The Matt Damon one, I guess with Lionel Messi or no,
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Speaker 1: I was David Beckham, Sorry, David Beckham. I thought that
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Speaker 1: was pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, And I'll be honest, I didn't watch too much.
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Speaker 2: Too many of the commercials are paid too close of attention.
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Speaker 2: Not the halftime show. I'm like not, it wasn't like
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Speaker 2: the best one ever. And I'm not a big Kendrick
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Speaker 2: Lamar guy. I know most of his songs. Have heard
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Speaker 2: of him at least, but I thought there was from
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Speaker 2: what I heard of people at the game, There's was
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Speaker 2: just a lot going on throughout the whole field. It
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Speaker 2: wasn't like it was a very elaborate setup they but
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Speaker 2: they kept they kept it very everything was moving constantly.
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Speaker 2: I guess the show was so out they did a
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Speaker 2: good job there. Yeah, nothing called six out of ten
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Speaker 2: like I mean.
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Speaker 1: As far as a watching experience, I'm not a Chiefs fan.
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Speaker 1: I watched it. I was in Kansas City. I watched
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Speaker 1: it at a watch party. The person who hosted had
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Speaker 1: a banner hanging up in their house Chiefs three times
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Speaker 1: super Bowl or three p Super Bowl fifty four or
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Speaker 1: whatever it was Champions And every quarter I was basically
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Speaker 1: we did like one of those where you buy the
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Speaker 1: squares yep, and every quarter I was basically had they
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Speaker 1: just stop the quarter like a minute sooner, I would
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Speaker 1: have won on like two of the four quarters or something.
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Speaker 1: So that was a little frustrating. But the game suck
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Speaker 1: to watch. It was funny to watch just the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: fans and disbelief as DeAndre Hopkins drops an eleven yard
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Speaker 1: you know, first down. It was pretty hilarious, just the
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Speaker 1: disbelief in their face that they're getting absolutely slaughtered. That's
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Speaker 1: awesome stat that if you looked at just the first
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Speaker 1: three quarters of games, Patrick mahomes performance by basically any
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Speaker 1: statistic measure, is the worst performance from any quarterback in
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Speaker 1: this season. Oh the super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Man by Mahomes to you at least had that experience
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Speaker 2: of watching it with some Chiefs fans, because that was
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Speaker 2: the one thing that I missed was well we didn't
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Speaker 2: have any diehard Chiefs fans, and I know quite a few,
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Speaker 2: but none were just at the place that I was watching,
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Speaker 2: and that would have been the fun part is just
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Speaker 2: to shame them the whole game.
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Speaker 1: We loved that halftime and it sounds like a lot
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Speaker 1: of people left after us because we drove home that night.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, it was just hilarious, just the you know,
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Speaker 1: and then they got that first The refs called that
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Speaker 1: it was a pretty soft a J. Brown pass interference.
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Speaker 1: Offensive pass interference. All right, it's not an unwarranted cult,
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Speaker 1: but they were like, oh, man, look out, the refs
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Speaker 1: are helping the chiefs again. Oh we're gonna and then
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Speaker 1: oh it was good. You know, it's good to humble
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Speaker 1: once in a while. It is.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's bubble talk, baby, bubble, let's do bubble. Let's
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Speaker 2: look where we're at. And this is what I love.
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Speaker 2: I will say this over the past two years, obviously
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Speaker 2: both years we've been in the bubble, we should mention
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Speaker 2: big win at home against Ohio State on Monday Sunday,
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Speaker 2: big game against Maryland at home. Who is now ranked
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Speaker 2: tomorrow on Thursday? Three games? Does it maybe out of
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Speaker 2: our last seven that That's what I'm kind of thinking.
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Speaker 2: But we're right there, like we're right in the middle
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Speaker 2: of the bubble. There's I don't even know how many
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Speaker 2: brackets are they're out there.
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Speaker 1: Well, this is okay.
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Speaker 2: I'll just say what I'm looking at here. Bracketmatrix dot
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Speaker 2: Com is what I like to go to. And if
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Speaker 2: you are looking and you see probably follow your favorite
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Speaker 2: stuff on Twitter, on Facebook, Instagram, whatever you look at
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Speaker 2: and you have, you know, you see the bracketologists. Nebraska
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Speaker 2: media people are retweeting, posting stuff. You know, some people
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Speaker 2: like them very number based, and people like just.
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Speaker 1: The I test all of that.
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Speaker 2: Well what I like is all of that but combined
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Speaker 2: into one. And Bracket Matrix does that. They every bracket
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Speaker 2: that's out there on the internet, they put on their
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Speaker 2: site and they put the date that it's updated on,
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Speaker 2: and they put you know, the common ones, all the ways,
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Speaker 2: the ones that you've probably never heard of, and they
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Speaker 2: do a really good job. They put your couple of
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Speaker 2: more popular ones at the beginning. They highlight the highest
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Speaker 2: seed that your team is, the lowest seed. We are currently,
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Speaker 2: as an average on in one hundred and eight brackets,
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Speaker 2: we are averaging a nine point nine to nine seeds,
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Speaker 2: so a ten seed. We are in one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seven of the one hundred and eight and the one
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Speaker 2: that we are not in is I believe I saw this.
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Speaker 2: It was not updated after the Ohio State game. So
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Speaker 2: that being said, right now, how we're in, you know,
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Speaker 2: given the situation, given people think that is left on
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Speaker 2: our schedule, we're in and I seed is a nine seed,
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Speaker 2: low seed is in eleven. It's what all these brackets have.
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Speaker 2: That's this is the one I like looking at the most,
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Speaker 2: because you do you get to see the range, the
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Speaker 2: variance of what people where people think you're at. And
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Speaker 2: then on top of that, like if you're in one
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Speaker 2: hundred and seven of one hundred and eight, like you're
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Speaker 2: gonna be in, You're gonna be in on selection Sunday.
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Speaker 1: It I probably agree three of the seven as long
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Speaker 1: as we don't get absolutely obliterated in those other four,
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Speaker 1: we're probably in. It would just it would be stillar
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Speaker 1: if we just closed out the year like we have
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Speaker 1: every year with Frek Hoiberg, with a little run. Two
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Speaker 1: ranked opponents left at this point Michigan, Maryland, and I mean,
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Speaker 1: our games have been close, like we're not there. That's
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Speaker 1: here's my concern is, I don't think it's elder all.
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Speaker 1: The possibility that we go on another you know, six
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Speaker 1: and or like a one in six stretch, because we're
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Speaker 1: not killing anyone, well, that would not put us in.
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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think so either. But outside
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Speaker 1: of Washington, which we were trailing at the end of
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Speaker 1: the first half and then Washington basically ran out of
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Speaker 1: juice and our three pointer found its way. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it's three pointer, but we're just shooting found
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Speaker 1: its way. I mean I'm a little worried that we
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Speaker 1: could because Oregon we won seventy seven to seventy one,
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, seventy nine to seventy one Illinois and overtime,
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Speaker 1: and then all of our losses that six stretch, we
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Speaker 1: had a lot like five of them within five points.
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Speaker 2: Well here, I mean, here's the thing we said with
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Speaker 2: the Big ten, it's competitive every day an out and
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Speaker 2: we've gotten killed in a few games. But you're looking
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Speaker 2: at these teams that that that those were by, like
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Speaker 2: these teams are kind of stretching themselves out perdue. You know,
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Speaker 2: Michigan State UCLA is playing hot again. We actually beat them,
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Speaker 2: so we do. We know that we're playing competitive games
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Speaker 2: every night and that's not going to change. I don't
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Speaker 2: think I don't expect us to go and blow out
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Speaker 2: Penn stayed on the road, like we're just not going
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Speaker 2: to do that.
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Speaker 1: But we got to find a way to win three
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Speaker 1: our two ranked opponents ranked currently our home games, which
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Speaker 1: is good. We have four of our home games, so
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Speaker 1: I mean, you win two home games and maybe still
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Speaker 1: one on the road. Ideally, you win four home games,
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Speaker 1: you're locked. All we have to do is went at
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Speaker 1: home that's all we have to do, which we've done
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Speaker 1: really well at.
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Speaker 2: Another thing to point out, and you know, as we're
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Speaker 2: looking at the rest of our schedule, which I guess
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Speaker 2: we'll read that off here cause you mentioned it, Maryland
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Speaker 2: at home, We go to Northwestern and Penn State next week.
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Speaker 2: Then the week after that we host Michigan and Minnesota,
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Speaker 2: and then we finish off at Iowa State and then
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Speaker 2: hosting Iowa on March ninth. When the Big Ten Tournament follows,
21:16
Speaker 2: the top fourteen teams get in. The bottom four will
21:20
Speaker 2: be left out. Right now, we're sitting eight. It's pretty tight,
21:25
Speaker 2: but you know, you win three of those games, you're
21:28
Speaker 2: gonna be in the Big Ten tournament as well, so
21:30
Speaker 2: you're gonna get another game there or more.
21:34
Speaker 1: So that's what we got left.
21:36
Speaker 2: And as we're counting down those games. The other site
21:40
Speaker 2: that I like to look at is team rankings dot Com.
21:43
Speaker 2: Another really good sour set had a lot of stats
21:45
Speaker 2: on it, which is right down our rally. But they
21:48
Speaker 2: do they break down the bubble and you're percentages by
21:55
Speaker 2: a bunch of different things. So they have us an
21:57
Speaker 2: eighty eight percent chance right now to make the tournament
22:02
Speaker 2: most likely seed being a ten seed, so that that
22:04
Speaker 2: that checks out. That's in line. Here's what I like
22:07
Speaker 2: that they do. They update this every day. They have
22:10
Speaker 2: an odds to make the NCAA tournament by win total.
22:14
Speaker 2: So right now we're sixteen and eight. They basically have
22:17
Speaker 2: all their scenarios in math generated behind the scenes that say,
22:19
Speaker 2: if you get two x amount of wins, you have
22:23
Speaker 2: this percentage chance to get in. So, you know, winning
22:25
Speaker 2: three out of the seven that puts in nineteen that
22:28
Speaker 2: gives us, according to them, an eighty eight percent chance
22:30
Speaker 2: to get in, which is right where we're at. You
22:34
Speaker 2: get four wins, you get the twenty wins, you're at
22:36
Speaker 2: a ninety eight percent chance, so and everything higher than that,
22:40
Speaker 2: you know, feace for itself. You get two more wins,
22:45
Speaker 2: you're still looking at fifty seven percent chance according to them,
22:50
Speaker 2: which is interesting, but you don't want to put that
22:53
Speaker 2: in jeopardy. I don't think you want to for sure
22:55
Speaker 2: win three of them four like you said, or more.
22:59
Speaker 2: You also are moving up in the seedings too when
23:02
Speaker 2: you do that, which I think if you ask Husker fans,
23:06
Speaker 2: they would rather probably not be a nine seed or
23:08
Speaker 2: ten seed versus actually getting a seven or six if
23:10
Speaker 2: we can get up there if we keep winning.
23:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at so. I mean, I'm trying to
23:21
Speaker 1: figure out what seed do I want. Obviously I don't
23:23
Speaker 1: want a nine seed just because that puts you in
23:25
Speaker 1: the one seed bracket. But it looks like Wichita is
23:31
Speaker 1: a host city for a ten seed, very drivable. Milwaukee
23:35
Speaker 1: is also another host seed for ten seed. So ten
23:39
Speaker 1: seed team is pretty sweet even though you're in the
23:42
Speaker 1: two seed bracket. If we could get up six, six
23:45
Speaker 1: or seven, that would be ideal. But I don't know
23:47
Speaker 1: if that would happen. Yeah, I I don't know.
23:52
Speaker 2: I mean, I get the argument of not being by
23:54
Speaker 2: a one seed or or two seed whatever. I just
23:57
Speaker 2: think we want to win games.
23:58
Speaker 1: Oh I agree, I'm not Yeah, you're not. You're not
24:01
Speaker 1: going to gain the system to try to get out
24:03
Speaker 1: of it, right, But six seed would be ideal. I
24:07
Speaker 1: mean that that would be best case scenario. If it's
24:12
Speaker 1: a difference between a ten and a seven, I don't
24:13
Speaker 1: care eight and nine. It's I want to be a
24:17
Speaker 1: ten to seven or six. I don't want to be
24:19
Speaker 1: here eight and nine. I really don't want to play
24:21
Speaker 1: the one seed round two.
24:25
Speaker 2: Me if you want to look to one other thing
24:27
Speaker 2: right now in the Big ten, there's a big cutoff
24:31
Speaker 2: after team number seven, that that being Illinois. So I
24:33
Speaker 2: mean it drops from nine to six to Oregon, who's
24:36
Speaker 2: six and or Ohio State six and seven. So are
24:40
Speaker 2: we Oregon six and eight? And I mean there's a
24:43
Speaker 2: big still jumble the bunch of teams there. The good
24:45
Speaker 2: news is the teams that we are playing to.
24:47
Speaker 1: End the year. Michigan's playing well.
24:51
Speaker 2: Michigan's at the top but in Maryland, but the other
24:55
Speaker 2: ones are below us, so that work star our advantage. Again,
25:00
Speaker 2: site has us at nineteen point four projected wins overall,
25:03
Speaker 2: so again sitting in a good spot. But we have
25:06
Speaker 2: to stay on edge. You know, if you're Fred Hoiberg,
25:10
Speaker 2: if you're the players, you have to come out every
25:13
Speaker 2: game like it's your last of the season, because they do.
25:17
Speaker 2: They all matter.
25:17
Speaker 1: At this point, we're winning the games because our energy
25:20
Speaker 1: on defense and Bryce Willims has been able to get
25:22
Speaker 1: to the line. That's that's how we're going to win
25:25
Speaker 1: the games. That's how we have to keep winning the
25:26
Speaker 1: games correct. And I will say before we move on
25:29
Speaker 1: for mens, Creighton's is going to be in and I
25:32
Speaker 1: don't know if you're following Uno probably going to win
25:35
Speaker 1: the seventh League.
25:36
Speaker 2: I've seen them in the sixteen seed about every single
25:39
Speaker 2: bracket that I keep looking at, we could have all
25:41
Speaker 2: three teams in. Let's just look out of the one
25:45
Speaker 2: hundred and eight brackets you and O is an eighty
25:48
Speaker 2: of the one hundred and eight.
25:49
Speaker 1: That's pretty good in the Summing League.
25:50
Speaker 2: So they are definitely the favorites right now to win
25:52
Speaker 2: their conference tournament. And then Creighton, since you mentioned them,
25:57
Speaker 2: they are currently as they're in all bracket projected brackets,
26:01
Speaker 2: they're sitting at a seventh seed right now on average.
26:06
Speaker 2: The matchup that I saw in a couple of them
26:09
Speaker 2: was US against the Yukon. I like that'd be kind
26:11
Speaker 2: of funny.
26:12
Speaker 1: That would be funny.
26:13
Speaker 2: Well, gosh, all right, anymore bubble talk. Well, we'll be
26:20
Speaker 2: talking bubble every episode from here on out.
26:21
Speaker 1: I guarantee it. I don't think so big game if
26:26
Speaker 1: we I said, I think, if we beat Maryland, we
26:30
Speaker 1: only need two more wins to lock it up.
26:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe I mean yeah, beat Maryland and I
26:39
Speaker 2: think three wins is pretty safe.
26:40
Speaker 1: I really do.
26:41
Speaker 2: I think, no matter who they are Maryland being one
26:44
Speaker 2: of them. Yeah, you can almost probably lock it up
26:46
Speaker 2: if we can get two more after that. Tickets as
26:48
Speaker 2: low as three dollars, it says for the game.
26:50
Speaker 1: I can't believe that.
26:55
Speaker 2: Well, I would never have thought at Northwestern is the
26:58
Speaker 2: highest going ticket for the remain games on our schedule.
27:01
Speaker 1: I don't know why that is Senior Night at Northwestern.
27:07
Speaker 1: I don't know expensive to be a Northwestern men are
27:13
Speaker 1: doing better than the ladies, though ladies aren't a little
27:15
Speaker 1: bit of a skid.
27:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have. They have stroled a couple recently. I
27:24
Speaker 2: don't I don't don't have much. I've kind of watched them.
27:26
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure where they're sitting at.
27:29
Speaker 1: The sixteen and eight. They're on a three game losing streak.
27:31
Speaker 1: They lost to Iowa by fifteen, Michigan by eighteen, Indiana
27:36
Speaker 1: by sixteen. So, I mean, it's been I don't know.
27:41
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to Prince, but she has
27:43
Speaker 1: not been playing well the last couple of games.
27:46
Speaker 2: The big ten micd are up the other day, did
27:49
Speaker 2: they blame them? All? Right, let's move on here, last
27:56
Speaker 2: topic of the day. Let's talk about our coaching staff.
27:58
Speaker 2: I think you know, keeping football fresh and moving ourselves up.
28:06
Speaker 2: Have we claimed the off season Natty title banner?
28:08
Speaker 1: I don't know.
28:09
Speaker 2: Some people have claimed it.
28:13
Speaker 1: I thought Texas Tech claimed it this year. The best
28:16
Speaker 1: portal class in a generation, GM Worthy stealing or whatever
28:20
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, not so fast.
28:26
Speaker 2: We are. We are the champs in the off season
28:32
Speaker 2: coaching staff. That's the topic today. We mentioned as they've
28:37
Speaker 2: all came in in random times when it's final as
28:41
Speaker 2: officially yesterday with the contract being out there of coach
28:45
Speaker 2: Mike Eckler, our special teams coordinator. Who's the last piece
28:49
Speaker 2: to this new puzzle that Matt Rule has put together
28:54
Speaker 2: for this coaching staff. I'll start with this very positive
29:02
Speaker 2: vibes from all these hires, and.
29:08
Speaker 1: I think.
29:11
Speaker 2: You can chalk that up to a little bit of
29:13
Speaker 2: the kool aid, the rul aid, the off season hype.
29:16
Speaker 2: But there may be a piece of it, like if
29:17
Speaker 2: you're just a objective fan from another Big Ten team
29:22
Speaker 2: or another team in the country, you look at it
29:24
Speaker 2: and you go, okay, to Nebraska's got some names. You know,
29:29
Speaker 2: they did a good job bringing in some people. I
29:32
Speaker 2: think that's also a very true statement now as a
29:35
Speaker 2: fan and us in this podcast, let's see what happens
29:39
Speaker 2: with it. And we're not really probably gonna see a
29:41
Speaker 2: whole lot until we hit the field Naugus without being
29:44
Speaker 2: able to see the spring game. So there's a lot
29:47
Speaker 2: of pieces here, I guess overall general thoughts before we
29:51
Speaker 2: dive into the individual coaches.
29:55
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say we won the offseason national title,
29:58
Speaker 1: but I do feel good about that hires. I know
30:01
Speaker 1: that part of that's probably because the puff pieces I read,
30:04
Speaker 1: but you know that's how I get my information. I'm
30:08
Speaker 1: not deep in the trenches of special teams. You know,
30:12
Speaker 1: rankings for every team in the league during the season,
30:15
Speaker 1: so if they don't feel like good hires and you've
30:18
Speaker 1: seen at least statistics that sort of back up those
30:22
Speaker 1: arguments such special teams. And then you see, you know,
30:26
Speaker 1: the D line guy, I can't say D line looked
30:27
Speaker 1: really good. They held the run game pretty well. Thirteen.
30:34
Speaker 2: I guess fourteen if you include Matt rules. So there's fourteen.
30:37
Speaker 2: And as a reminder to this whole new coaching world
30:43
Speaker 2: that we live in, where you know that used to
30:45
Speaker 2: be laws around analysts and number of coaches you could
30:48
Speaker 2: have on staff.
30:49
Speaker 1: A lot of those are gone.
30:51
Speaker 2: Uh, And you can get as many coaches as you
30:53
Speaker 2: want and put them wherever you want and do whatever
30:55
Speaker 2: you want. And so as a as a head coach,
30:58
Speaker 2: as a program leader, it's your job then to find
31:02
Speaker 2: one who those people are, and two put them and
31:05
Speaker 2: give them the responsibilities to do the job correctly. So
31:09
Speaker 2: when you put all of it together on a football field,
31:12
Speaker 2: it looks good. It's different than basketball, it's different than baseball,
31:15
Speaker 2: It's different than any other sport because there's so many
31:18
Speaker 2: unique pieces that have to come together at one time
31:22
Speaker 2: on the field that one time. I mean, what other
31:23
Speaker 2: sport can you think of is with eleven people on
31:27
Speaker 2: the field? Is there is there one?
31:30
Speaker 1: I don't know how people are in rugby. Yeah, maybe
31:33
Speaker 1: rugby that could be similar. I don't know.
31:39
Speaker 2: I think football obviously is the one we're most familiar
31:41
Speaker 2: with in America that has a lot of players on
31:46
Speaker 2: the field, and that's your job to coach all of
31:49
Speaker 2: them as one unit, but also have all these position
31:53
Speaker 2: coaches to help and specialize and teach fundamentals.
31:56
Speaker 1: And all of that.
31:58
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to comment on it now, but
32:01
Speaker 2: the word that I've used, or the phrase that i've
32:03
Speaker 2: heard when it comes to coaches, not just in Nebraska
32:06
Speaker 2: but just in general with these new rules is how
32:09
Speaker 2: many cooks in the kitchen is too much? So just
32:12
Speaker 2: keep that in mind here as we're going through this.
32:15
Speaker 2: Head coach Matt Ruhle obviously has been here now for
32:20
Speaker 2: his third year as head coach. Offensive coordinator Dana Holgerson,
32:26
Speaker 2: technically he is new to start the year, came in
32:29
Speaker 2: middle of last year. Defensive coordinator John Butler similar story.
32:34
Speaker 2: He's not new, but he's got a new titles from
32:37
Speaker 2: what he was last year.
32:38
Speaker 1: He is the DC.
32:41
Speaker 2: By himself here, and then special teams coordinator Mike Eckler
32:46
Speaker 2: most recent higher rounds out the coordinators, all three new
32:52
Speaker 2: real they are they're new coordinators. And what's funny is
32:56
Speaker 2: you is it is funny?
32:59
Speaker 1: It's it is what it is? But are we talk
33:01
Speaker 1: about it?
33:02
Speaker 2: We said, Okay, these are all three great hires, all
33:04
Speaker 2: three new faces. We like them. And then I heard
33:06
Speaker 2: someone say lio State's got three new coordinators too, They're
33:10
Speaker 2: gonna be in trouble. I'm like, maybe, like as it
33:16
Speaker 2: Nebraska media at its finest, but I do regardless of
33:20
Speaker 2: that comment, I think that like you said that they're
33:24
Speaker 2: this is everybody's saying. Okay, Nebraska got a big name.
33:28
Speaker 2: They got Mike Eckler, like one of the in the
33:32
Speaker 2: coaching world better special teams.
33:34
Speaker 1: Of the three, you feel like one might be a
33:35
Speaker 1: step back and the other two are at worst a wash, correct,
33:40
Speaker 1: you know, But I don't. We don't think either one
33:43
Speaker 1: of them are washes from special teams or offensive coordinator.
33:50
Speaker 2: So here's here's how I'm like piecing this together. I
33:54
Speaker 2: guess in the past we've always had coordinators that have
33:57
Speaker 2: a position as well. I think that's pretty true on
34:03
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball. None of these three guys
34:07
Speaker 2: have specific responsibilities as far as positions now. Eckler's special
34:14
Speaker 2: teams coordinator that kind of its own thing, but Dana
34:17
Speaker 2: and John Butler are both strictly coordinators.
34:25
Speaker 1: We go a level down further. Okay, On the offensive side,
34:30
Speaker 1: Glenn Thomas is back as the quarterbacks coach. E J.
34:34
Speaker 2: Barthole is back and he's been here with the Rule
34:37
Speaker 2: as the running backs coach. Same thing with Donnie Royola
34:40
Speaker 2: as the alliance coach, and then the Keel Shorts, our
34:44
Speaker 2: new receivers coach, who is a Dana guy. With them
34:47
Speaker 2: at West Virginia, at Houston, most recently at Kentucky. UH,
34:53
Speaker 2: that's our offensive staff. And those guys are in charge
34:55
Speaker 2: of the position. Who'd I forget coach seven Satterfield, I
35:00
Speaker 2: didn't have him circled, I have him written down. Guy
35:03
Speaker 2: Ed's coach, Marcus Sadderfield. All these guys are in charge
35:08
Speaker 2: of their own individual positions in my mind, teaching the
35:11
Speaker 2: teaching them the fundamentals, the techniques.
35:15
Speaker 1: UH.
35:15
Speaker 2: And then Dana's gonna take all those things and piece
35:17
Speaker 2: them together. And and Dana is gonna have input in saying, hey, coaches,
35:21
Speaker 2: we need guys X, Y and Z to be able
35:23
Speaker 2: to do this, this, and this, and they're going to
35:27
Speaker 2: scheme up something together as a staff. To me, it
35:30
Speaker 2: makes it makes a hierarchy. The hierarchy. It makes sense
35:33
Speaker 2: more so than what we've had in the past. That's
35:38
Speaker 2: on the opposite side of the ball.
35:39
Speaker 1: Defense.
35:39
Speaker 2: Similar story John Butler and then Rob Devorchik at the linebackers.
35:45
Speaker 2: He's been with rule here since he got here. Phil
35:48
Speaker 2: Simpson the new end's coach, which sounds like maybe we'll
35:54
Speaker 2: be more linebacker type ends. Phil snow who's the associate
36:00
Speaker 2: head coach. Kind of rules. I don't know what consultant
36:05
Speaker 2: or guy that helped him last year. He's now the
36:07
Speaker 2: associate head coach, but also gonna be helping with the
36:09
Speaker 2: defensive line. You mentioned Terry Bratton, the Kansas City assistant
36:13
Speaker 2: d line coach that is now officially on board there
36:17
Speaker 2: Addison Williams, the new defensive backs coach that rounds out
36:22
Speaker 2: our defensive position positions there. So again, I like the structure.
36:30
Speaker 2: I like hierarchy. It makes logical sense to me. We'll
36:36
Speaker 2: see if it plays out in the field, but I
36:38
Speaker 2: think it structurally makes sense.
36:41
Speaker 1: And it is also funny because our the defensive backs
36:46
Speaker 1: coach was a defensive coordinator, and then you have John
36:50
Speaker 1: Butler defensive coordinator, Phil Snow defensive coordinator, and then on
36:54
Speaker 1: offense you have Glenn Thopas who was co offensive coordinator,
36:57
Speaker 1: Saderfield who was offensive coordinator, and then obviously Holgerson offensive coordinator,
37:05
Speaker 1: and then Matt Rule above all of it. So I
37:07
Speaker 1: just feel like there's there might. There are gonna be
37:10
Speaker 1: a lot of ideas and it will be interesting to
37:13
Speaker 1: see how they all align.
37:15
Speaker 2: So what I like though, because I agree when when
37:19
Speaker 2: it goes to cooks in the kitchen and and and
37:22
Speaker 2: you're starting to think about that what that means with
37:24
Speaker 2: all these coaches, because even we don't know the names
37:28
Speaker 2: of these people. But when you talk about let's just
37:30
Speaker 2: take the the linebackers for example, you're gonna have personnel
37:34
Speaker 2: staff that's even further down than Rob Devorchik.
37:38
Speaker 1: Right, the grad associate assistance and the yes, yeah that
37:42
Speaker 1: also have So what I like about it is the the.
37:47
Speaker 2: Hierarchy is very clear. Now. Word that can get fuzzy
37:50
Speaker 2: is if you feel like your your your input is
37:53
Speaker 2: not heard or valued. There's frustration, there's there's there can
37:57
Speaker 2: be some disruption within a within an organization.
38:02
Speaker 1: It is, it's all gonna flow.
38:04
Speaker 2: However, the information flows, like you said, real realizes your
38:07
Speaker 2: responsibilities when it comes to the day to day game
38:10
Speaker 2: Like I think he was kind of involved with the
38:13
Speaker 2: defense a little bit, but then Tony White's when when
38:15
Speaker 2: they brought him in, I mean, Tony White was damn good.
38:18
Speaker 2: So then our offense stuck like rules Like Okay, I
38:21
Speaker 2: got it.
38:22
Speaker 1: I don't think what do you think like this is
38:25
Speaker 1: not like what do you think he's gonna be doing?
38:27
Speaker 1: Because I feel like Holkers is gonna be game playing
38:30
Speaker 1: in the offense. Yep, Well, theer's gonna be game playing
38:32
Speaker 1: the defense. Eckler's gonna be game playing special teams, which
38:36
Speaker 1: really shouldn't change that much per game. Like what is
38:40
Speaker 1: he doing?
38:41
Speaker 2: Like, So that's it's fascinating And and this conversation Will
38:46
Speaker 2: I can almost guarantee come up. I mean, his job
38:51
Speaker 2: is to manage all the pieces. By doing that, you're
38:57
Speaker 2: also gonna have your own input. But what's funny is
39:01
Speaker 2: he's not going to have as far as a game
39:03
Speaker 2: plan like you're mentioning. But what have we always said
39:07
Speaker 2: about rule the last few years, Like we know he's
39:10
Speaker 2: a great whether you know whether we think it's fake or.
39:16
Speaker 1: You know, genuine he is.
39:18
Speaker 2: He is a communicator, he is, that's his that's his
39:21
Speaker 2: top quality is like just talking to people and talking
39:24
Speaker 2: to people the media, talking to.
39:26
Speaker 1: The public, talking to people who like that. That's what
39:30
Speaker 1: his job is.
39:31
Speaker 2: We've always said he might not be a great X
39:34
Speaker 2: and OSE guy, he might not under look at his
39:36
Speaker 2: time management stuff that we've had, it's not been great.
39:41
Speaker 2: But but conceptually big picture, he's not bad when it
39:47
Speaker 2: comes to that stuff. So he can take a step
39:49
Speaker 2: back and look and say oh shit, like, it doesn't
39:53
Speaker 2: matter if our if our defense is the best in
39:56
Speaker 2: the country, God, if we can't have a top one
39:58
Speaker 2: hundred offense, it doesn't matter. He's able to look at
40:03
Speaker 2: that and then and then yeah, it's up to his next.
40:07
Speaker 1: Guy on the totem pole.
40:08
Speaker 2: Those three to take your position group and obviously special
40:11
Speaker 2: teams was what it was this year, big flaw.
40:14
Speaker 1: So I think his job is to manage all that.
40:16
Speaker 1: Is that a hard job?
40:17
Speaker 2: Some would say, well, gee, he's not going to be
40:19
Speaker 2: doing anything. If it works a lot of it's going
40:24
Speaker 2: to be credit to rule, and it should be. But
40:26
Speaker 2: if it blows up, it's also a lot on rule
40:30
Speaker 2: where he kind of protects himself a little bit. The
40:34
Speaker 2: blame's going to get put on the head position or
40:37
Speaker 2: the head coordinator.
40:39
Speaker 1: If goes, it's cheaper to fire those people. And I'm
40:43
Speaker 1: not saying like, I'm not pointing that out as like
40:45
Speaker 1: a rule doesn't do anything sort of. It's just it's
40:48
Speaker 1: funny to think about because when you think about you're
40:50
Speaker 1: like Ryan Day, he's involved with the offense. You know,
40:53
Speaker 1: Kirby smart, he's a defensive minded guy. Rule is I mean,
40:58
Speaker 1: I would assume you think of him as a defensive
41:00
Speaker 1: head coach, but you don't really only I don't think
41:04
Speaker 1: of him as an offense or defensive head coach. It's
41:07
Speaker 1: just weird.
41:10
Speaker 2: You could pick out almost every coach in college football,
41:13
Speaker 2: even as just a casual or fan. You could place
41:16
Speaker 2: him in one category. I don't know what you would
41:18
Speaker 2: do with the rule and where you would put him.
41:22
Speaker 2: Here's where I think things got harry last year. I'm
41:25
Speaker 2: just speculating. I don't know this as a fact. Our
41:28
Speaker 2: offense sucked. Our defense is pretty damn good for the
41:32
Speaker 2: most part, not every game. Tony White was pissed that
41:36
Speaker 2: our offense sucked, and I feel like that got ugly
41:42
Speaker 2: a little bit as far as the chemistry when we
41:47
Speaker 2: went on those losing streak there to the middle of
41:49
Speaker 2: the of the year, with the coaching staff, with the players,
41:53
Speaker 2: you know who they trusted. You know it is because
41:57
Speaker 2: it is as defensive coach, if you're doing everything you
41:59
Speaker 2: can and then you're like offense, figure figure figure your.
42:02
Speaker 1: Ship out not carrying their weight, and it sticks out
42:04
Speaker 1: like a sore throne, and then you guys still get
42:08
Speaker 1: picked on like it's like, well, you know, Tony White's
42:10
Speaker 1: defense did it stop them on that last drive. It's like, well,
42:12
Speaker 1: I hold I held Ohio State to fucking seventeen points.
42:16
Speaker 2: You know, and the speculation again, I I thought this
42:20
Speaker 2: ever since the Dana Holders and Marcus Sadderfield. Sadderfield is
42:24
Speaker 2: obviously still on staff. I think that Rule and Sadderfield
42:27
Speaker 2: their buddies. I think their bet they're really good friends.
42:30
Speaker 2: And I think that ticked Tony White off that Rule,
42:34
Speaker 2: not that he sided with Marcus, but that he was
42:38
Speaker 2: he was defending Marcus more than they for even to
42:42
Speaker 2: start the year and bringing back as the OC. Like
42:46
Speaker 2: I I do think that was a big part of it.
42:48
Speaker 2: Speculation there. So I think that's a lot of the
42:53
Speaker 2: reason potentially why Tony White left, amongst other things.
42:56
Speaker 1: But I also think that's why they brought Phil Snow
42:59
Speaker 1: in as another layer of like like you know, Bill
43:04
Speaker 1: Snow cannot get fired for anything, like there's nothing that
43:07
Speaker 1: that man will do that will be like that's the
43:09
Speaker 1: problem with the OSCAR program. So now Rule has created
43:12
Speaker 1: a layer of separation of like, hey, Phil, I need
43:14
Speaker 1: you to talk to sat like he's not getting a
43:18
Speaker 1: shit done with the tight ends or there's just a
43:21
Speaker 1: tier to handle that there.
43:23
Speaker 2: Is, And what's the element we haven't talked about with
43:27
Speaker 2: all of this is the evolving college football landscape that
43:32
Speaker 2: continues and probably will continue for a long time of
43:35
Speaker 2: the transfer portal, and I al, YadA, YadA, YadA. Do
43:39
Speaker 2: we have the staff the coaches in place to react
43:42
Speaker 2: to that and adjust appropriately and trying to stay ahead
43:49
Speaker 2: of the curve on a lot of this stuff.
43:53
Speaker 1: That I don't know.
43:55
Speaker 2: I don't know.
43:57
Speaker 1: I don't think we're in.
43:58
Speaker 2: A bad spot by any means now, and in fact,
44:00
Speaker 2: I think if you put it on a scale, we'd
44:01
Speaker 2: probably be still towards the front end of an IL
44:05
Speaker 2: and all that. But there's some pretty old school guys
44:11
Speaker 2: on this staff. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
44:13
Speaker 2: That can also be a good thing depending on where
44:15
Speaker 2: everything goes.
44:17
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
44:20
Speaker 1: Do you know the guys?
44:21
Speaker 2: I know we have some pretty good recruiters on the staff.
44:25
Speaker 2: But I think this whole new generation of kids is
44:29
Speaker 2: with all this money, it's just so so different, it's
44:31
Speaker 2: so odd, and we still have the financial support. I
44:36
Speaker 2: think I saw we were fourth in the Big ten
44:38
Speaker 2: from our nil valuation as a team like that's great,
44:42
Speaker 2: but it comes to taking that and then putting the
44:45
Speaker 2: puzzle pieces together, like you've got to do it. I
44:48
Speaker 2: we we have no excuse to not be able to
44:51
Speaker 2: do it with the financial resources that we have, and
44:54
Speaker 2: now this coaching staff that we have in are paying
44:56
Speaker 2: a lot of money. So I don't think there's many
44:59
Speaker 2: excuses left for Husker fans for Rule, especially in its staff.
45:04
Speaker 2: Like you got it, it's now or never, dude, like
45:07
Speaker 2: figure it out.
45:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. I I don't. I don't want
45:16
Speaker 1: to say I'm drinking the Rule aid, but I wasn't
45:19
Speaker 1: upsetting with anything that happened this offseason, outside of obviously
45:22
Speaker 1: Tony White. I think there wasn't a moment where I
45:26
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, that really sucks.
45:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess would you the answer to that, would
45:32
Speaker 2: you feel better if Tony White was here and we
45:35
Speaker 2: retained those guys that all transferred, Yeah, yes, we would
45:40
Speaker 2: feel a lot better.
45:42
Speaker 1: We would feel a lot better. We would. I'm trying
45:44
Speaker 1: to think of who all transferred that I'm really disappointed transferred.
45:50
Speaker 2: I mean there's some younger guys I think that like
45:53
Speaker 2: you're you're James Williams is one name Williams. My mind,
45:56
Speaker 2: Mackay beaher. I thought like, like not huge, but think
46:00
Speaker 2: you know.
46:00
Speaker 1: Just some conces I agree with that. Yeah, No, I totally.
46:04
Speaker 1: I definitely yes, if he was here, I would definitely
46:07
Speaker 1: feel better. But I don't. The drop off wasn't as
46:10
Speaker 1: much as I thought it was gonna be going in.
46:12
Speaker 1: Don't ash this off season?
46:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what we don't know to what you really
46:16
Speaker 2: don't we've we've heard that maybe we want to retain
46:19
Speaker 2: the same type of scheme, the three three five.
46:22
Speaker 1: How is that going to be adjusted? We're not really
46:24
Speaker 1: gonna know.
46:24
Speaker 2: And I think that's smart, Like, I think that needs
46:26
Speaker 2: to be kept under wraps until we start playing, because
46:30
Speaker 2: we have from now and when spring practice starts here
46:33
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks till August to work on
46:36
Speaker 2: all of whatever we're adjusting from last year on that
46:39
Speaker 2: side of the ball, with new coaches, with new faces,
46:42
Speaker 2: there's gonna be the element of the unknown when we
46:44
Speaker 2: take the field the Arrowhead against Cincinnati. We need to
46:48
Speaker 2: make that happen like that can only help you, all right,
46:52
Speaker 2: There's no reason we need to be telling.
46:53
Speaker 1: People what we're doing.
46:54
Speaker 2: I'll be really upset if that does come out because
46:58
Speaker 2: our media pushes forward or there's no reason to release
47:02
Speaker 2: any of that information on what you know, maybe you
47:04
Speaker 2: can be very high level and say like we have been,
47:08
Speaker 2: like it's a version of last years, but we're gonna
47:10
Speaker 2: have some new faces, like keep it that, keep it
47:12
Speaker 2: high level, but don't give away anything that we're trying
47:15
Speaker 2: to do.
47:19
Speaker 1: And now we just have to wait six more months.
47:23
Speaker 2: And we just gotta keep talking, keep talking about random topics.
47:28
Speaker 2: I love it.
47:30
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, no Dak tonight.
47:32
Speaker 2: So hopefully he'll be back next week and tough enough
47:38
Speaker 2: a little bit maybe maybe maybe maybe hopefully maybe we
47:42
Speaker 2: don't hope. Uh yeah, we'll be back next week. Hopefully
47:45
Speaker 2: couple of wins, that's for sure. Hopefully the Maryland and
47:50
Speaker 2: Northwestern from the Huskers.
47:51
Speaker 1: So NBA All Star Weekend team Shack, team shack. May.
47:59
Speaker 1: I actually don't know if I feel like we're a
48:00
Speaker 1: team Shack. But I'm not gonna put too much weight
48:03
Speaker 1: into it because the All Star Games always suck.
48:06
Speaker 2: They're not great.
48:07
Speaker 1: I usually still watch them. I do too. I just
48:11
Speaker 1: want one person to care, yeah, and that'll just force
48:15
Speaker 1: everyone else to care. But no one cares.
48:18
Speaker 2: I don't know if that'll ever happen.
48:20
Speaker 1: Whatever, it's like, Oh, I'm sorry, you get paid sixty
48:22
Speaker 1: million dollars and you have to come and play one
48:24
Speaker 1: more game.
48:25
Speaker 2: Oh it's so tough with all the other guys that
48:28
Speaker 2: are getting paid that much. All right, whatever, all right,
48:34
Speaker 2: all right, go be red.
48:37
Speaker 1: GBR almost feels empty without that boomer. Sooner, you know, start, start,