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Indiana Week Arrives · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: All right, Sean O. If you had to pick Coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Year in the Big Ten Conference after a
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  Speaker 1: couple of conference games, would it be Bob Chesney, Luke Fickle,
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  Speaker 1: or P.J.
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  Speaker 2: Fleck? Well, what about David Braun at Northwestern?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 2: I think he should be in that discussion, too. I
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  Speaker 2: think you've got three or four stories going here, and
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  Speaker 2: then you've got schools spending big dollars in Michigan and
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  Speaker 2: Penn State. who have lost two conference games apiece to
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  Speaker 2: teams with rosters not near as valuable. You think about
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten right now, the way these starts have gone,
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  Speaker 2: the television ratings and how CBS, NBC, and Fox select
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  Speaker 2: each week is going to get interesting down the stretch
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  Speaker 2: because those networks obviously count on Michigan and Penn State
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  Speaker 2: being good, and this year both those programs have suffered,
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  Speaker 2: and the teams and coaches you've mentioned have. But to
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  Speaker 2: your question, I'd almost lean towards Bob Chesney. I think
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  Speaker 2: with what he's done at UCLA, he is a real up-and-comer.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Penn State turned him away to hire
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  Speaker 2: Matt Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they wish they had Mulligan on that. UCLA is
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  Speaker 1: playing at Oregon this week. We'll find out more. Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: has the week off. They play at UCLA on the 17th.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota is playing at Purdue. So things are looking good
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  Speaker 1: for those guys. Now, to Nebraska and Indiana. 16 penalties. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe it was an off day by the officials.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there were some questionable calls. But Nebraska still leads
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten in penalties. This is not something that
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  Speaker 1: you can ignore. When you have 43 penalties in five games,
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  Speaker 1: Sean O, that's just not winning football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were a lot of calls. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was a school record in the first half for penalties
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  Speaker 2: in the half for Nebraska with 10. We have never
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  Speaker 2: seen 10 penalties in a half in the history of
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska football. So that there got your attention, just going
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  Speaker 2: into the locker room and just the variety of the penalties, too.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't one thing. It was kind of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things. But we've seen as many special teams penalties
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  Speaker 2: this year as I can ever remember. Just different things,
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  Speaker 2: being aggressive on special teams, whether it's offside, holding calls.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to wrap your arms around just why they're getting...
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  Speaker 2: A few procedural ones here, they're going to happen. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: too many. And it made the flow of that game
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  Speaker 2: just crazy. Maryland had 18 possessions in the game. 18.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it's because they got... just the way
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  Speaker 2: the penalties and the way the game flowed. But I
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  Speaker 2: have not been around a game like that and doing
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  Speaker 2: this job in a long time, if ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Maryland is a very poorly coached team. They have athletes.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that on Saturday. To your point last week,
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  Speaker 1: they have people, and their people were not used properly
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  Speaker 1: in that game. That was a real plus for Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: And Anthony Calandra really came through in the second half
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  Speaker 1: and played well. I'm not sold on Indiana, Shano. You
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  Speaker 1: think about it, their schedule has not exactly been murderer's row.
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  Speaker 1: And the tough game they've had this year was against
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  Speaker 1: Northwestern at home. And you might have seen that one
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  Speaker 1: a week ago last Friday, the 25th of September. They
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  Speaker 1: were giving up big chunks of yards on the ground
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  Speaker 1: in that game at home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they got pushed pretty hard in that game.
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  Speaker 2: And it should get your attention. I mean, this Indiana
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  Speaker 2: team obviously is still a very good team. But they
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  Speaker 2: lost eight draft picks last year. from last year um
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  Speaker 2: new quarterback uh they had to bring in a new
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  Speaker 2: receiver to go with charlie becker it's nick marsh um
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  Speaker 2: a lot of new offensive linemen of that original james
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  Speaker 2: madison group of players i believe there's like one or
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  Speaker 2: two left um so you know that the core that
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  Speaker 2: signetti built that thing is no longer there um and
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  Speaker 2: and they're they're kind of establishing their identity still obviously
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  Speaker 2: a well-coached team though maybe the best coach in the
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  Speaker 2: country leading the sideline and you know that they've probably
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  Speaker 2: studied all the vulnerabilities of Nebraska. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a fun game. I'm looking forward to this Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see what the strategy is for Quasi Gilmer.
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  Speaker 1: If Kurt Cignetti believes that Anthony Calandra is going to
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  Speaker 1: lock on Quasi Gilmer, they'll take Quasi Gilmer out of
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  Speaker 1: the game. So then it becomes a coaching issue, and
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  Speaker 1: he gets 17 targets. Gilmer did in that ballgame. between
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska and Maryland. That's too many passes to one guy,
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  Speaker 1: unless that was by design. We'll talk about that throughout
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  Speaker 1: the week. All right, Shano, thank you. And remember, he's
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