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More Problems for Maryland · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: This is Nebraska's Morning News. Now here, the News Radio
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  Speaker 1: 1110 KFAB Certified Transmission Sports Brief. It's the Husker Buzz edition.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Sean Callahan and Jim Rose. All right, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: are you dry?
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  Speaker 2: You people in Lincoln got 10 inches of rain, almost
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  Speaker 2: 11 inches of rain.
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  Speaker 3: You people. Yeah, it was a hurricane. coming down here
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  Speaker 3: last night. It was incredible. I'll be interested in what
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  Speaker 3: those grass practice fields look like for Nebraska today. Luckily,
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  Speaker 3: they've got indoor options, but I wouldn't be surprised if
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  Speaker 3: the drainage is so good there that they're probably out
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  Speaker 3: there and they'll look great today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure your daughter, who's a world-class swimmer, future
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  Speaker 2: Olympic gold medalist, was out there doing laps in the
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  Speaker 2: front yard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Instead of the Devaney Center, they're going to go
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  Speaker 3: out to the Salt Creek and swim some laps up
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  Speaker 3: and down the creek as well. That thing's probably about
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  Speaker 3: as high as we've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a raging river. All right, Nebraska versus Maryland on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock on FS1. If you're wondering
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  Speaker 2: whether Mike Loxley expects to be the coach of Maryland
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  Speaker 2: next year, wonder no more. Yesterday he said we need
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  Speaker 2: to adjust Malik Washington's pre-read snaps. Pre-snap reads, I should say,
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  Speaker 2: which is what the quarterback looks at and then checks
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  Speaker 2: down to a different play depending on the defensive alignment.
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  Speaker 2: That is a desperate move, Sean. That guy is not
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  Speaker 2: an inexperienced quarterback. And if we're still talking about pre-snap reads,
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  Speaker 2: they've got problems.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a talented quarterback. Started as a true freshman
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  Speaker 3: last year, and then he's four games into his sophomore
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  Speaker 3: year and had his worst game of his career. And
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  Speaker 3: I think they got everyone by surprise because he hadn't
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  Speaker 3: put up a game to that caliber with multiple pick-sixes,
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  Speaker 3: four interceptions. And, you know, give UCLA credit. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they are, to me, one of the better stories right
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  Speaker 3: now in the Big Ten. And you look at UCLA,
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  Speaker 3: their schedule is very favorable. They don't have Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: on it. They don't have Indiana. They don't have Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they easily could be a 9-3 type team
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  Speaker 3: this year and, you know, borderline playoff team, depending on
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  Speaker 3: how they do in some of their bigger games here.
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  Speaker 3: So a tough loss for Maryland. But I think UCLA
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  Speaker 3: might be one of the better stories going in the
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  Speaker 3: league at this point.
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  Speaker 2: And the Big Ten had its injury report, the midweek
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  Speaker 2: injury report. Every school, it's just like the NFL used
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  Speaker 2: to do on Wednesday. They say who's going to play,
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  Speaker 2: who might play, who's definitely going to play. And it
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  Speaker 2: looks like Jamal Rule is out. Ja'Cory Barney is questionable.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody else on that list strike you as important?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamal Rule officially listed as doubtful. Ja'Cory Barney, questionable.
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  Speaker 3: And then Brennan Black, a starting guard for Nebraska, listed
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  Speaker 3: as probable. Those were the three names. big names on
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  Speaker 3: the report, and the guys that left the game at
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  Speaker 3: Michigan State. So it kind of, again, tells you that
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  Speaker 3: we're probably going to see Mekhi Nelson and Mosey have
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  Speaker 3: to split up a lion's share of the carries with
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  Speaker 3: Vince Genitone probably being the short yardage guy. Between that trio,
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  Speaker 3: you're probably looking at, ideally, hopefully 30 carries.
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  Speaker 2: Genitone is now the flavor of the week at Nebraska football,
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  Speaker 2: the walk-on from North Platte, Nebraska. They really love him
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  Speaker 2: out there, and his conversion from linebacker to running back
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  Speaker 2: is harder to do than most. Give us the story
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  Speaker 2: on Vince.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's not your typical walk-on. He's the most explosive
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  Speaker 3: athlete on the team, has a broad jump of over
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  Speaker 3: 11 feet and a 42-inch vertical, and he ran a 10.500
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  Speaker 3: in high school. He was a Class A two-time 220-pound
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  Speaker 3: state champion wrestler. and was one of the leaders in
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  Speaker 3: the state in tackle. So on paper, in my time
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  Speaker 3: doing this, that's about as good of a resume as
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  Speaker 3: you'll see. He went to Montana on a full ride.
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  Speaker 3: His family moved here from Wyoming when they took a
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  Speaker 3: job at the North Platte Hospital with a doctor that
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  Speaker 3: they worked with in Wyoming, and they're still there. They're
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  Speaker 3: still in North Platte. They came here in 2020. So
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  Speaker 3: they're not native Nebraskans by any means, but they are now,
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  Speaker 3: and they love Nebraska and Just a neat family. Vince's sister, Madison,
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  Speaker 3: actually joined the UNL flag football program this year. She's
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  Speaker 3: the first in-state player. So there's two genitones playing football
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  Speaker 3: in Nebraska, which is also its own unique story. But
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  Speaker 3: Vince is a guy that has kept his head down
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  Speaker 3: and is highly respected in the locker room. Got his chance.
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  Speaker 3: And those that know him are not surprised by this.
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  Speaker 3: You've got an era where players ahead of you are
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  Speaker 3: getting paid, and there are scholarship guys. The guy not
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  Speaker 3: getting paid, who's a walk-on, doesn't always get a chance. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he finally got his chance, and then you saw what
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  Speaker 3: he could do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how, with that high school resume, he
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  Speaker 2: isn't a power four conference athlete. Start with the wrestling,
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  Speaker 2: move to the track speed. You can't coach speed. How
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  Speaker 2: did they miss a guy like that, a Class A
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  Speaker 2: kid from Nebraska?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's from North Platte, first of all, so you
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  Speaker 3: kind of get off the radar at that point. But
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  Speaker 3: his measurable was like just under six foot tall. He's
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  Speaker 3: like 5'11 and three quarters, maybe six foot. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that always dinged him in the process that he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't a true like 6'2 guy. Because other than that, again,
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen the combination ever of a wrestler who
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's 250-220 that wins state, dominated state. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he beat a Westside kid his senior year in the finals.
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  Speaker 3: It was an unbelievable match where two kids went back
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  Speaker 3: and forth. Then runs 10-5. You don't see that combo
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  Speaker 3: ever because usually wrestlers aren't very good wrestlers. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you can broad jump over 11 feet, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's better than guys at the NFL Combine. All right. Thanks, Sean.
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