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Nebraska Basketball is Everything Nebraska Football SHOULD want to be · Return to Glory - Nebraska

• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Heard a Glory Podcast New Year A little late Honor Sarbnik,
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  Speaker 1: Dakota Free Tag Austin, and I think overslept once again.
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  Speaker 2: He just the New Year.
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  Speaker 3: New Year's resolution was not to be on time.
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  Speaker 2: Yep for the.
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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast. Been a couple of weeks, been
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  Speaker 1: busy with the holidays, Christmas, New Year's I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to change the name of our
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  Speaker 1: podcast to something that's more basketball related because we're not
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  Speaker 1: really returning to any glories. There's never been this kind
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  Speaker 1: of start to a year ever, not even close.
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  Speaker 3: It's Nebraska basketball history. And then on the flip.
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  Speaker 1: Side, the football team played in their bowl game as
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  Speaker 1: we last talked.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really want to talk about it, but I
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  Speaker 3: think we need to.
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  Speaker 1: And then the transfer portal is open, so there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to today.
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  Speaker 4: Before before we start, I think we need to pinch
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  Speaker 4: ourselves to make sure we're still in real life with
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  Speaker 4: the basketball team.
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  Speaker 3: Because I have where you want to start?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Yeah, I don't let's start basketball team.
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  Speaker 4: Let's start positive we can we can a bad note.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you want to start with that? It's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's incredible. I I just I can't understand what's
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  Speaker 1: going on because every game it's like, all right, back
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  Speaker 1: to reality, a little bit back to reality, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're in the game, and then you go, well, might
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  Speaker 1: as well just win this one. And that's what we
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  Speaker 1: did recently here. I guess Monday night against Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: on the road game that we were two and a
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  Speaker 1: half point underdogs, and then going back to last Friday,
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  Speaker 1: you and I went to the Michigan State game at home,
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  Speaker 1: beating the top ten team in PBA.
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  Speaker 3: It just is one of those things that it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of hard to believe.
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  Speaker 4: The crazy part about what they're doing is they're proving
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  Speaker 4: they can win games in multip different ways. They can
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  Speaker 4: win a shootout, they can win an ugly fist fight.
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  Speaker 2: They can win on the road.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's we keep on saying, I just just wait,
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  Speaker 4: just wait till they play on the road, Just wait
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  Speaker 4: till they playlet State, Wait till they play Oklahoma Ky State.
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  Speaker 4: But I think by now it's like, Okay, this team
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  Speaker 4: is for real and they are going to slip up
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  Speaker 4: and lose one here. But maybe, I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's there's I've heard people saying, oh, they're gonna to
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  Speaker 4: defeat no way, there's no way. But but I do,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what would you put their max loss there
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  Speaker 4: right now?
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  Speaker 2: I think five would be.
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  Speaker 4: I say they're gonna lose five games max because Big
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  Speaker 4: ten's down too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've seen a lot of different projections of
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  Speaker 1: you know, twenty four to twenty five wins out there.
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  Speaker 1: We're projected like two or three seed right now in
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  Speaker 1: the tournament, which never tho I'd ever say that in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime, insane, especially this soon. So I guess, well, Dak,
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  Speaker 1: look after watching him, like what would you contribute? Like
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  Speaker 1: what are we can go? We don't, don't. You don't
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  Speaker 1: give every explanation, but name one thing that's really helped
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  Speaker 1: us become who we are.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think the best thing that's happened this season is
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  Speaker 4: Sam Hoyberg's improvement. I don't know how many coaches we've
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  Speaker 4: heard say after the game, like just call him out
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  Speaker 4: and say how greater player he is, how hardy plays
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  Speaker 4: and all that. I think, even just from last year,
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  Speaker 4: how much he's improved. His intensity too, gets like team
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  Speaker 4: going when they're when they're on these like uh slumster
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  Speaker 4: in the middle game. It seems like he always gets
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  Speaker 4: a big steel or big three, so I get him
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  Speaker 4: back going. I think he's been the biggest bright spot
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  Speaker 4: so far for this team.
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  Speaker 3: Spoken like an opposing team's coach.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we heard, we've heard like frist six or
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  Speaker 4: seven coaches call him out first player they mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean at a high level, our basketball team
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  Speaker 1: is playing and doing all the things that we wish
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  Speaker 1: the football team could figure out a little bit. They
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  Speaker 1: just they're they're tough, they're they're gritty, they do all
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  Speaker 1: the little things. And Sam Hoiberg's definition of all that
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  Speaker 1: for the team and and that what he's bringing. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean we have all the other players fallow suit
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  Speaker 1: in that in that aspect too. And I say rank
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  Speaker 1: mass is very similar, being you know, more of the
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  Speaker 1: player leader where he is our best player, and when
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  Speaker 1: your best player does all those things, everybody else feeds
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  Speaker 1: off of it. So yeah, I mean, I completely I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a big piece of it. Now I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm just gonna say it another thing, right. Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Hammer on Instagram, hed a big college basketball national guy,
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  Speaker 1: complimented our defense to Nate Lenzer. In our defense this
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  Speaker 1: year and this is the same defense we played last
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  Speaker 1: year too and the year before, but.
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  Speaker 3: It's taken it to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have guys with the attitude in the
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  Speaker 1: in the mindset that like Sam does, Gosh, it looks
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  Speaker 1: really really good. And the rotation that we constantly are
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  Speaker 1: in and we're so good at it, it causes teams
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  Speaker 1: to fits. We saw it last year too. We saw
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  Speaker 1: it when you play even good team to just it
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  Speaker 1: takes certain things away in the half court that you
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  Speaker 1: just can't do it in your offense and you have
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  Speaker 1: to adjust. It makes the offense adjust to you. It's
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  Speaker 1: just very impressive. Like it is, and like you said,
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan State game was more a little more of
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  Speaker 1: a rock fight. You can go on the road with
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  Speaker 1: with a game plan like that and beat Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: team like it. They do a really good job. And
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  Speaker 1: no you're not you're not really guarding one on one ever.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's a constant rotation. It's a constant thirty five
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  Speaker 1: second or thirty second defender butt off. And it's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a that's a big bright spot in
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  Speaker 1: my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The uh, the thing that really which is probably this
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  Speaker 4: preak give you a lot Tingles being the defensive coaches,
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  Speaker 4: and it impressed me a lot. The Ohio State game
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  Speaker 4: is when they switched to one three to one for
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  Speaker 4: just a couple possessions, how much it threw a High
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  Speaker 4: State off and they went right back to what the
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  Speaker 4: normal defense is.
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  Speaker 1: But that's been new. That was new. We haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 4: But to be able to do that, that was impressive.
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  Speaker 4: And you can tell just threw our stay off, like
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  Speaker 4: what the hell is this? And another big part about
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  Speaker 4: the High Stake game I thought was early on in
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  Speaker 4: the game, I was like, holy crap, they're big. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to give us fast and it really never did
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  Speaker 4: because Nebraska doesn't have that much size, but they they
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  Speaker 4: can mask that with how well they played defensively and
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  Speaker 4: how how hard they play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have side, but we are a long
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  Speaker 1: like I think this first team that well last year
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit too, But you start seeing the
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  Speaker 1: type of guys that Hoiberg and staff are recruiting two
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  Speaker 1: and and that that comes from it. We'll get the
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  Speaker 1: football that comes to having an identity and things that
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  Speaker 1: you really truly believe in because once you understand those
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  Speaker 1: things you're able to then go find guys, even though
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  Speaker 1: they might not be the the five star, four star
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  Speaker 1: player in the portal. You're able to find the prototype
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  Speaker 1: of players that you want on your team, whether it
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  Speaker 1: comes to their physical build or their mental build of
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  Speaker 1: how they are as a player. And guys like Price
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  Speaker 1: Stamford come in from Iowa who he was okay at Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: but he comes into our system both offensively and defensively,
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  Speaker 1: and he becomes one of our best players in our team.
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  Speaker 4: He said the most threes in like I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: the first fifteen games that anyone ever for the Huskers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's that's one of those things that you know,
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  Speaker 1: he asks sneaky length. He fits into what Fred's trying
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  Speaker 1: to do on offense, and and we have I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's just an example. We have other guys that are
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  Speaker 1: like that too, So I think I think it's very important.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the basketball team has done, is they've established
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  Speaker 1: himself on who they want to be. And and yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's taken Fred several years to understand and realize, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's what we got to do with Nebraska, and we're
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of it right now, hopefully it's here,
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  Speaker 1: stay for several years here. I do think rank mast
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  Speaker 1: is a very big part of it with what he
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  Speaker 1: brings from a leadership standpoint, but then obviously also on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive the defensive end, I think he opens things
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  Speaker 1: up when you have a guy like that out there
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  Speaker 1: that can do what he does on the offensive end.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, I just think the big thing of the
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  Speaker 1: basketball team that you're seeing come fruition here is the
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  Speaker 1: identity piece, and we've recruited to it, we've developed within
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  Speaker 1: the program to it, and like I said, it's everything
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  Speaker 1: the football team wishes they could be right now, they
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to do it. Basketball team is doing
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  Speaker 1: those things and it's paying off. That's a big reason
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  Speaker 1: why we're fifteen.
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  Speaker 6: To know.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the biggest part I think got Danny wise is
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  Speaker 4: Kal Jacobson. That guy has not scored, a done anything
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  Speaker 4: on offense the last two or three games, and he's
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  Speaker 4: still playing like twenty fifteen to twenty minutes a game
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  Speaker 4: just because he's that good defensively and they won't take
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  Speaker 4: him out because that I think that's where you recognize
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  Speaker 4: what they want to be. And eventually here I was
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  Speaker 4: talking to you about this, I think he will start
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  Speaker 4: hitting the shots, which once once he does, that's that's
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  Speaker 4: going to add a whole new wrinkle this team. But
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  Speaker 4: but you can tell that they just want to they
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  Speaker 4: know who they are on offense right now and defensively,
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  Speaker 4: and that that they love playing with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say that another big thing that I'm noticing,
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  Speaker 1: Like this team, like you just said, place for each other,
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  Speaker 1: and they do not care about anything other than winning
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  Speaker 1: the game. But it's very very very very evident they
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  Speaker 1: want to win for each other. They want to do
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  Speaker 1: the things for their coaches that they You don't see
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  Speaker 1: that anymore in college, or I should they anymore very
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  Speaker 1: little in college. You just see a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: that want to get theirs. I mean, we we've seen
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  Speaker 1: the extreme in the basketball program early on, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about an identity as he's example one A.
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  Speaker 1: But you go in the line with Andrew White, the
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  Speaker 1: third Teddy Allen, We've had, We've had Alonso Verge, We've
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of different guys. We've gone down that
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  Speaker 1: path and Fred found out, oh boy, that doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: So we got we got guys that don't care about
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  Speaker 1: their individual performances and and they're worried about the team
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  Speaker 1: and that that's it's big. That's when when you have that,
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  Speaker 1: it makes it a lot easier to coach. And when
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  Speaker 1: you look at us, and that's what I what I did,
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of people did. When you look at
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  Speaker 1: the you look at the team, you go, boy, we
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  Speaker 1: don't very athletic. We look like.
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  Speaker 3: We might not be very good this year. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: raising my hand.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that at the beginning of the year, all
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  Speaker 1: these intangible things went out. They they destroy those things,
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  Speaker 1: and then you do start to look athletic, you do
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  Speaker 1: start to look long, you do start to look like
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  Speaker 1: you can defend. Oh and guess what, we can shoot
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Shocker.
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  Speaker 3: So it's one of those things that all that stopped
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  Speaker 3: playing for each other and playing for a team and
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  Speaker 3: caring about the team performance, it.
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  Speaker 1: Pays off. And that's that's that's the most part you
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  Speaker 1: can give to Fred the staff in the program right
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  Speaker 1: now is getting to that point because it's not easy,
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  Speaker 1: and especially in a world of nil and transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: and go get mine, it's that's not easy to do.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's a big reason, another big reason
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  Speaker 1: why we're fifteen to zero.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we haven't mentioned this guy yet, and I there
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  Speaker 4: was not any had come around this guy going into
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  Speaker 4: the year. I don't think I didn't anything about him.
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  Speaker 4: Is fragert A'm coming off the bench. I mean, he
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  Speaker 4: had the most point last night or two nights ago,
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  Speaker 4: but he can he can score from anywhere. He might
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  Speaker 4: Stamford might be our best offense, but he's he's moving
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  Speaker 4: up there in offensive like he's probably our third option,
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  Speaker 4: second or third option right now on offense. His and
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  Speaker 4: ones at the end of the game basically want won
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  Speaker 4: us a game there. And and the fire that he
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  Speaker 4: plays with too, you can just tell that he's he's
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  Speaker 4: kind of the one when they go in these slumps.
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  Speaker 4: He he gets the team hyped up and energized, and
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  Speaker 4: he always seems to have the big basket when they
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  Speaker 4: need it.
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  Speaker 1: He's the example of a guy that you would just
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  Speaker 1: you would have never thought if you're recruiting, you know
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  Speaker 1: from Lincoln went to Lincoln Southwest.
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  Speaker 3: I I'll be honest, I didn't even know he wasn't nicey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Did you did you You probably didn't hear anything about
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  Speaker 4: him either, like no one did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a perfect example of a person where Hoiberg
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  Speaker 1: and staff identified it, identified someone that's going to fit
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  Speaker 1: into what they want to do on both ends, and
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  Speaker 1: they identified a personality that you know what, Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a little fire in him, and he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the guy that someone say it yesterday and it sums
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  Speaker 1: it up, the guy that other teams just absolutely hate.
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  Speaker 1: Like you hate guy, you hate it, you just for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. But if you can control him
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  Speaker 1: as a as a coach and as a team, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's he has such a big valuable asset. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see No one saw that coming. But that's again
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  Speaker 1: talk about development coaching. Oh man, that that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: definition of it there. And you're right, he out of
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  Speaker 1: anybody right now that that is you kind of want
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  Speaker 1: to go. He might cost you a few things, and
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  Speaker 1: he almost did turn out a big turnover. He had
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  Speaker 1: a stupid technical against Michigan State. Like some of those
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  Speaker 1: things that are still freshman type of things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you get through those things, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you need a guy that has a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of i'll call it a Draymond Green in him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have a little bit of that type of mindset.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of gets you fired up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: as a team and keeps you on your toes and
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  Speaker 1: you know you can't you can't do what the cost
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  Speaker 1: of games. Don't get me wrong, but man as a couple
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  Speaker 1: of finishes late and things that he can get done offensively,
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  Speaker 1: it makes it hard to guard. What I thought was
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  Speaker 1: interesting to Ohio State game with Breger thought he passed
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  Speaker 1: up a lot of shots to get better shots. He
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  Speaker 1: has some good shots to get better shots. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's another good sign of playing for each other and
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  Speaker 1: understanding exactly what you want from a program.
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  Speaker 4: You could tell you where to take some of those threes.
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  Speaker 4: But then he's for dec even freshman. He's so smart
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  Speaker 4: you can just tid not take a three driving and
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  Speaker 4: kick it out or do whatever with it.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean that's coaching.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, to be like this Gid already is a freshman's insane.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they thank god he's there because with the
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  Speaker 4: Siegeon now you need this scoring or or else we'd
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  Speaker 4: be really screwed.
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  Speaker 2: So I just don't.
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  Speaker 4: I said Horberd was the biggest part. Now now it
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  Speaker 4: might be going back to him. He might be the
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  Speaker 4: biggest part of the scene so far, the biggest surprise.
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  Speaker 1: See, yeah, you're trying to pick off who it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's kind of fun. I I don't even like
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  Speaker 1: try to say who is you know, who is our
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  Speaker 1: best play? I don't even go down that path in
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  Speaker 1: my brain because I think we're such a unit. Like
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  Speaker 1: as a group, everybody does their parts, and everybody's doing
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  Speaker 1: them very very well. Jared Garcia had his game a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks, a few games ago, he still came and
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  Speaker 1: hit a big three. Everyone's doing their part well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you could say this person, this person, this person's the
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  Speaker 1: key piece. Oh they all they all are huge, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why there were built and that's why the or
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  Speaker 1: the way we are. So I don't know, it's been
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  Speaker 1: It's been very fun. Just wanted to. We have to,
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  Speaker 1: got to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We hope we're here to stay. I I find it
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe that we're gonna stay on a two
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  Speaker 1: or three seed line from here on out. But we
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  Speaker 1: definitely good. Like there's no reason to think we can't.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously if you do that, you you.
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  Speaker 3: Give yourself a very very good.
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  Speaker 1: Chance to play a team that you should be favorites
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  Speaker 1: against and can win a first tournament game this year,
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  Speaker 1: which is gonna be the biggest elephant in the room,
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  Speaker 1: monkey off your back thing when we get there.
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  Speaker 3: But it is, I arey seed, the better, better you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get there.
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  Speaker 4: We we still got to see the if they can
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  Speaker 4: win Indiana. See this team is for real. No, I'm kidding,
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  Speaker 4: we don't.
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  Speaker 2: We got to be over that.
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  Speaker 4: By this point, I'm saying, hey, this, Oh, let's let's
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: wait and see about if they can win this game
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: that game.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: No, this this seems for real.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I doesn't see I said I. I still
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I had to like put a number on it. I'm
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: still gonna say we're gonna be I'd probably go a
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: five seed. Yes, that's given out of seat's gonna go.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: But it's kind of just I think a little bit
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: us just being a little bit pessimistic, right, Like if
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: we keep playing this way, we should beat the bottom
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: half of the big ten and beat them by ten
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: or fifteen, like just how it should be. I don't
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: know that that that will happen. But why not, It's
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: what he's saying, why not? Why why why can't why
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: not just win this game. Why not just beat those
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: teams every time we play them?
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Well, then Austin's here late enough to miss all of
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: the takes.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: You know, I often go afb out the basketball team.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: We are just bowed down with it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: So what are your thoughts? I don't know. I definitely won.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: I called his family. I was on vacation in Boston.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: I got back Monday, so I thought last night was Tuesday.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: I didn't see your text until this morning when I
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: woke up, I was like, oh shit, it's Wednesday. No,
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: they're they're they're really good. Uh, they're obviously squea you
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: out all these wins. So I don't know. I don't know.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Michigan still scares me if you're looking at like, you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Big ten teams alone, like I think they're probably right
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: where they should be, right, you know, like we're the
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: fourth team in the Big Ten right perdue Michigan and
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: oh no, we're the third one Preudue. Michigan are ranked AHEADEMUS.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: That's probably right. We'll be in Michigan state Illinois.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I just want to say, you just jumped in right
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: away and compared us to Michigan.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Oh man, that was great.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying I'm just saying like that all I'm
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: saying that that's where we're at, and like I had,
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I'm not even like I still it's weird saying our
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: name like next to Duke in the rankings.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I don't even I think we're Oh my god, we
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: get beat by then by twenty. I don't think we would.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: But your brain just kind of goes that way and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and write what you just said. You're like, Okay, yeah,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I'm scared of Michigan. I'm like, like, yeah, we are
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: talking about that right now, Like that's.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Where we're I mean, the last two games are often
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: just poorly, and we still won, like I mean Michigan State.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Our offense played bad, like it was not, I mean
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: outside of it not like we had. Mask got incredibly
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: hot in the first half, and then you know, I
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: thought he was gonna fall apart when Fraker scares me,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't you know. I think we missed.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: We're gonna miss the season. At some point. We're gonna
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: have a little bit of a slump. I think we're
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: you know, we're still gonna lose two or three games
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: in the last fifteen for sure, if not more. But
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: I think we missed the season scoring. I don't love
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: that we have to like I don't know what the thing.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: My takeaway is we win with our defense and that
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: should travel. We still don't have a second big that
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: if mask if mask Masked gets in a foul trouble,
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: I think we'll see some issues when we get up
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: have some some other big teams. But I'm not worried
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: about making the tournament anymore. I hope we make the
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: city because we already have what four quad one wins,
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: So I feel like, you know, even if we fall apart,
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: we're making the tournament because we're outside of an absolute collapse.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So it feels like even if we lose out we
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: still eat that we should still make it. But we're
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: obviously not going to lose out right. But it just
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it's so it's it's.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Just weird because I'm not looking at the Big ten
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: season anymore. I'm looking I'm looking for seeding now. I'm
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: not really I don't really care if we win the
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Big Ten, but that's what I'm saying. It's like, well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: as far as Big Ten games go, it's like, well,
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: I guess Michigan in a month. February will be tough.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: You're you're looking at the Michigan game, and that's give
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: me a one two matchup.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: Right, I mean, if we went out, we won't be two,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: but we would be probably top five.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those things that we are.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We're literally right now where we're at trying to find
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a way to see if we can get a better
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: seed in the tournament, which which is just crazy. The
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: past couple of years, it's been, Okay, we're really good
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: at home. We can play with anybody at home, if
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: not beat anybody at home. On the road, we just
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: can't even matter who we play on the road, we
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: could not get a win. We've already beat two teams
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in the top half of the Big Ten on the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: road in our first four conference games in Illinois and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Ohio State. Like those are going to be really good
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: wins when resume looking and so yeah, it's just crazy.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: It's just the scoring droughts they are, Like, I mean,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: it was amazing that we won the Michigan State game.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, well, Michigan State, that's like, I don't know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: I'm obviously jacked and that was a crazy game. But
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Michigan State definitely definitely helped us win that game. I mean,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: they had like four were in a row on force.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, Dak and I went to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the Michigan State game and then we'll have a state game.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I just watching those games from us on the offensive end,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: those teams are just better. They're they're both they're better athletes,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: they're better coached. Uh that a lot of teams we played,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and so like they did. That was the first one
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of the first times this year where I was like, Okay,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like this team's going to guard us a lot better
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: than these past ones have, so let's find a way
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to win it. And we did. Now it'll be we'll
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: see like teams we play here coming up, and Indiana.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Is another one of those, I think is very similar.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: To both of them. You you're gonna have to be
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: even more creative on offense and adjust more and do
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: some different things, which is something that our football team
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: can't do. Is just all right, Like Hoiberg is a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is a very very good offensive mind, and that's why
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: our offenses looks so good.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Well, guess the teams started figuring out, Okay, here's we're doing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: They adjusted, and now it's time for the counter adjustment again. Now,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: now what you hope is that your bottom half of
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the Big ten teams aren't as whether it be well
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: coached or don't have the players to defend us the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: way that Michigan State and in Ohio State did that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we can beat those teams by ten or fifteen points running.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I'll call it more base stuff than having to get
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: super super complex, even though our base stuff I think
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is very complex and we're really good at executing it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: And I mean Ohio State we outscored their bench twenty
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: two to zero.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: You know it wasn't like thanks to Fraker. I think
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: it was all him, right.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, at fifteen points, I think.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And then yeah, see somewhere else the seven came from.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: But but another we haven't talked about this yet. Another
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: impressive party is to come back from That makes me
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: stay high and then to be able to focus refocus's game. Yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: that's the class trap game and come back. And when when.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I I heard some people say, oh, we're not when
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: this game is a high state, well they did.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I favored, which I thought was crazy.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I think what I think what Fred's done though, guys, and.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: This is another shout out to the to the culture
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and playing for each other and not playing for yourself.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: They stay away well besides the Fregger like Jeremiah Fierce
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: thing and all that.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Like I just I'm glad he's coming off the bench.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You're a freshman. What I think this team does is
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: is they avoid the outside narrative and noise and andy
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to them. Like, you're right, there's there's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: trap There's things called trap games all the time. There's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: high momentum games, the post Corps, the post quark storming
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: games where you just you come off and lay a dud, right,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and we've done it before.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: This team is like, so.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: They don't that doesn't.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Fred said in his post conference in our house, and
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: he's like, we don't get too high, we don't get
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: too low.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And I'll say this, where is that? Where does that
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: all start? The start with Fred?
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Fred.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Fred does not get too low. Fred does not get
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: too high.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: He's very very, very very even keeled when it comes
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to all that stuff. And I think that that feeds
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: into your team and all that. And if you can
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: keep the mindset focused, man, and the best thing that
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: happened the best thing that I thought. Hm again, take notes.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Matt rule.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Fred said in this pre Michigan State.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: UH interview, he talked for like six minutes, inter question
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: for six minutes and said, I got to go.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I got work to do, and put his head down,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: went to work. When right now.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Things are going so well, and there's every reason that
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: if you cared, if you were a little bit had
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: an ego, he'd be bragging about how good we are,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and you'd be telling it, you be, you'd be on
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: cloud nine.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: It helps. I think it helps that when he's been there,
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: you know, he had real success at Iowa State. And two,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: I mean he's been working for this is what y're
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: eight or year seven seven, So I mean he knows,
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: he knows this isn't like he doesn't he doesn't think
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: this is a feel good thing. He's not like, oh man,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: this is our gear. He's like, no way, I've I've
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: put it in the I've put in the work, you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: I've I've put my boots on. He've been grinding here
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: for six years before this year to get to this point.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And it's been it. Just like I said, he they
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: found the identity, they found what they want to be
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and and it's it's paying off big time and.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: We're and we're too good of a team to be
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: throwing the cord against winning the top ten team.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Seriously, that's I mean, but that's what the players kind
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: of said. That's their mindset. That's what that is, what
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: that is.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: What's the beauty about this team is they they've and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: they truly you can tell they believed it like they think.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: They weren't just saying that to be all the sounds good.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: They believed it to the players and they said that
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I I yeah, plusker fans and all of that, like
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: we have not experience like this, and so yeah, like it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: But the ads, that's the beauty of the players.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Don't get caught up and the players it not like
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: it matters now the fans can just be stupid, which
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: we do and and you love it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Well, this is last mass basketball comment. This has been
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: true for a couple of years about the Vault just
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: being a crazy place to win, a crazy place to play.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: I told you our volleyball and football. You know, it's
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: great that we sell those are both have incredibly long
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: cell out streets. But that just means that a bunch
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: of old people have been going there for a long time,
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: and the Vault is just full of just drunk forty
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: year old and young you're ready to see a basketball
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: team win, who love betting on basketball and care of
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: you care about March Madness since they were, you know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: eight years old making their own brackets and they're they're ready, man.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: And the Vault, the Vault's a real, real home advantage.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I didn't hear. Didn't hear once, Hey, you gotta sit
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: down at the Vault.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because people there, It's not it's not an old
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: like there are old people that go, but I mean
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: it's not like you know, seventy plus year old season
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: ticket holders. It's when it sells out, it's freaking sold out.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: And you're gonna hear it when the you know, Memorial
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: and the Anny sell out.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: It's you know, say, volleyball still has that like because
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: everywhere you go, nothing our volleyball is still unique. Still
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: doesn't happen this sport football. We've talked about it for
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the past few years, like it's not a hostile place
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to play. It's just it's it's tough, but it's not
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: when when you when you want to go down start
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: ranking the Big ten toughest places that go.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: No one's saying Nebraska. No one's saying with Moorials Stadium.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: It's a great They say it's a great experience. And
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: you know, when like a team like Colorado comes in,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: we work out for it. But and then volleyball the
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: same way. I watched a video of all the Big
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: ten moyball coaches saying the places they want to play
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: the least. Nebraska Lincoln was not one of them. It
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: was Wisconsin, Penn State.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Which is crazy because of how many fans we get.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But it's it's not like it's so yeah, you're it's
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: spot on. I think that's one of the things that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: we've talked about on this podcast is the is the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: fans in Nebraska just when you talk about a road environment,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: we're not one of the topest one basketball. It's a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: lot different. And it's it's the demographic of people, which
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: is what what what what you're saying.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: When they get to the Oklahoma City, get to the
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Oklahoma City region, it's gone down there. I'm calling it
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: You know, And I said, I said this to Oklahoma
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: City or Saint.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Louis is the other one that that, uh, I don't
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: know if they have what kind of seeds they have,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but and even the ones that are non drivable, the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: driver ble ones will be more. Here's the thing. If
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: we're a if we're a top five seed in a
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: in a region, Oscar fans are gonna think we're taking
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I'm in this bucket. We're not going for a Thursday
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Friday game and hoping that we win. You're booking an
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: all weekend ticket because you're saying we're different. And when
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you if you win Thursday, you're playing Saturday. So you're
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: booking and and and therefore you're planning more. Therefore, you're
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be You're gonna get a lot more
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: fans there for that first game because you're thinking we're
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: going for two games, not just really so that that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is that's another perk of being the higher seed, the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: better because I think that that literally will be what happens,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and it'll be nuts wherever we go. If it's okay,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: if it's okay, see oh boy, yeah, okay.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Last last for his switching football as my my brother
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: who's a season ticket holder, this season ticket holder for
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: the last oh I don't know, five six years. He said,
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: we're no longer the feel good story. We are the
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: story in college basketball. I don't know. It kind of
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: feels that way when the when the college basketball subreddit
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: they're talking about Nebraska basketball feels good.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I agree. More national things i've seen and just like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it's not a feel good it's like a no, they're
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: they're here.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I got one more comment on this.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: What ten years ago someone said, all right, what are
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: you gonna bet here that a basketball team would be
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: ranked top ten before the football team?
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: What would you have bet.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Ten years ago? Let's see what it would have been
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: that we can get it a Scott Frost era. Yeah,
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: at the end of Vike Riley Gosh, I don't know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: A leg I would have been a leg probably.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, Well that was fun. I think we've said
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: one more thing about basketball, like nine times.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: I know, I got I know I was displaying. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: missed the first twenty five minutes.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I was ready to go, trying not to get the football.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know where to begin. I guess for football.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of podcasts and people just like
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: brush over the the Utah game I don't really want
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to do that. I want to talk about it here
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit, because the narrative was, well, we get killed,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. My game didn't matter. No, it doesn't matter.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: If we were in the game and it was a
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: game started, it didn't matter. And that's not right. Uh.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I think last year of the Boston College game, we
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: talked about how much it did matter when we won
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and how big of a win it was and all
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And I'm a little bit under the you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the the mindset of if you're playing a game, okay,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of pride in competition and and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: griat of wanting to win it. Yes, there's a lot
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of people transferring, and yes, the narrative around college football,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: as bowl games are becoming less and less important outside
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: of the playoff and the postseason, college football is going
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to look very different in ten years. So I get
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: all that. But what happened out in Vegas was just
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: an exact summary of how this season's gone for a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: lot of games. And it did not make anybody feel
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: good coming out of that game. And the sad part
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: was the game went. If you would if you would
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: have said Yevna rass is gonna lose forty four to
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: twenty two, you'd be like, yeah, it's about right, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: everybody expected it to be that way, and we met expectations.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: It's not good. It's not good. I think. I think that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That's my takeaway is what happened. Nothing coming out of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: that game was like gave you any more sort of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: hope or promise after.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: The Penn State and Iowa game bad. You can't think
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: of one thing.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: There wasn't like, there wasn't like a moat where you're like, oh,
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: this player stood out, not even like that. I mean that,
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: and that's saying something. And I mean we had obviously
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: Emma Johnston play, which is you know, huge for our offense.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: But outside of that, we were kind of full strength.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: And Utah had their two best defensive linement out, their
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: best offensive lineman out, their head coach gone, and we
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: got fucking steamroll in the second half. I mean, we
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: came out, we ran the ball like eight times in
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: a row, scored and then we scored again.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's fourteen to fourteen.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: At one point, fourteen to seven, we were up seven
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: oh seven seven, fourteen to seven. Yeah, and we just uh.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: I mean our defense looked like ship, which I mean
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: all year I've thought our defense was the scary part
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: I had. The offense hasn't really bothered me, but I
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: mean the things we learned. It wasn't like, oh, maybe
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: this guy is good. It was Latif is not good.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were some things that we learned. I would
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: say more things confirmed from.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: My mind, like, you're right, I don't know.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't learn a whole lot.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: There's some things that I'm like, Okay, I think, yes,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: it was.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: There were people out there telling you that Latif was
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: better than Deliverrial dek what and that he should start.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: And I watched it and I was like, those people
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: don't know fucking football because this guy freaking sucks.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I will say Dak doesn't know football, so that is true.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Wow, there was. I did not feel good about him
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: going into next year.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Latif Latifa is a good backup. You'd like you like
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: to have that guy as a sure, like he's a
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: he's serviceable, he's not going to come in and turn
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: it over.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: But like I'm not saying I want him. I'm not
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: saying I don't want one on the team. But right,
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: if you're like, hey, real, this is our guy next year.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping. I'm hoping that he played bad enough that
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it was obvious to him and his agent whatever you
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: want to.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: Call him that don't go asking for money.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Right, don't ask for money, and you're not going to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: go play anywhere else. I mean that that's the good news.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: So yes, well you'll you'll find out quick here if
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: he's going to leave or not, Like it'll be next
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: two or three days if he's going to leave.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks like he's not. I mean the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: portal just to know, January second through January sixteenth is
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the portal, So you get two weeks here, we're five
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: days in under that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: The other thing I guess from the Utah game that
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: again was confirmed.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: It was one of those things that nobody really talked about,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: but it's became very clear in this one. And then
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you start thinking, yeah, it happened in a lot of
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: our latest games. Like Dana Holgerson, we have thought and
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I think still is a pretty good offensive mind, understands
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the game from an excess NOE standpoint fairly well. But
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: what kind of eye opened in this game? Big time?
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: But then going back to other games is he can't
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to adjust. But then that did
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: make me start questioning how good of an offensive mind
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: is he? Does he really under you know, we got
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: he was and he's known to be an offensive coach.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: That's not that's not making something up from a coultorable narrative.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: So I saw something from Stu Manji. He's a really
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: good follow on Twitter. It does a lot of just
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Husker stats and analytics for the last seven games of
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the year from Sybe from the Minnesota game through the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Utah game. Our first two drives of the game yielded
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: in fifty two points. When you take garbage time out
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: all of our remaining drives, we've got fifty three points,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: so basically equivalent. And to put that in perspective too,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: that's fourteen the rest is forty one drives and they
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: basically result the same amount of points. And and you
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: can call that scripted versus unscripted. And what that tells
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: you is Dana is a good enough offensive coach. With
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the pieces that we have which or don't have, he
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: can say here's how we're here's how we're going to
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: attack this defense. Based on watching the film and here's
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: how we're gonna go score.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: We've done that. We did that. Then the defense comes
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: out and they go, okay, here's how Nebraska's beating us.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: They did X y Z. Dana, they change their defense.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Dana goes, well, I don't know what else to do.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: I just don't and I don't understand that, because like
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: when we scored our first two drives, we just ran
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: it down their freaking throats, and I don't know how
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: you don't go into you. We're gonna ren down their throats.
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: They're going to adjust. This is our this is when
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: we switch. I don't understand that you don't have that
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: plan in.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Place, and yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't understand
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the ex's and know the football, I mean like most people,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to try to and nderstand what
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: that looks like. But we don't. We don't have as
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: we don't have a counter adjustment to their adjustment. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: then that it's been evident on offense.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: Well, and part of that could have been it's like,
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: all right, they're not gonna let them run the ball.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: They don't have a Johnson. We're gonna make Latif throw it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: And then latif kept throwing it behind or in front of,
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: or over his receivers.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Right, and that and that I'm gonna as not that's
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: as a very fan media assumption. There's obviously x's and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: those reasons why our run game, you know whatever, whatever
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: type of run schemes that we were drawing up there
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that were gashing off Utah to start, then they were
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: able to go over Utah defense, go over the side
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of that. Okay, they're beating us because of this. It's
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: a miss okay, buddy movie. This is where this is
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: our adjustment. Okay, now you start, you start doing that,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: we go, oh, dang it, now they're stopping it, or
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: now they moved, now they did this. It's like we
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: don't have another answer anymore. That's concerning, Like, especially with
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: our team, it's it's very concerning. So yeah, I mean,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: that's the closest thing I guess I learned from the game.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: But I think we kind of knew that too, because
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: we saw that against Iowa. We saw it against Penn
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: State where we did have a good first driver too,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and then things fell apart anything else from the I
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: do I think it'd be it'd be I would say
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a fun episode, but it'd be good to kind of
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: go back and revisit the whole year and don't want
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: to go too much into it, but I guess if
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you guys have one takeaway or a couple of takeaways
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: from the year, and I can kind of go first
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: here while you're thinking, I think looking back on it
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: from a season as a whole. The big word that
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to use here was this opportunity from from
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: a scheduling standpoint and just what could have been in
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: year three under Matt Ruhle, and and then leading into
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: very very very very scared for the future because of
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: momentum and and the things moving forward is general hope
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: for this team. You know, you start the year thinking, okay,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: like Dana Holders and Dylan Rayola the mesh, they finally
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: got a whole off season together. You come out, you know,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: you play some pretty bad teams, and Johnson looks like, yeah,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you you tell me, Emma Johnson is an All American
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: running back. You're going, gosh, are we ten and two?
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Are we eleven?
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: And our quarterback through for seventy well, our starting quarterback.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: You know Anny touchdowns?
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: You know you you you do you knew our defense
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: is probably gonna take a step back. I remember saying
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: that pretty early on, if not before the season. I said,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: our defense is probably gonna take a step back. But
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: they can't fall off a cliff right. Our defense was
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: a seven or eight out of ten last year. They
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: can maybe fall to a season, but we can't fall
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to a two or three out of ten. We can't
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: do that, and that's what happened. So the looking at
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the season as a whole, it's just overall an opportunity.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: We have the schedule, we have the chance to really
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: take a step forward from a momentum standpoint, and the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: program then hopefully can get the next level of recruits,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the next thing to elevate us to being a top
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: twenty five team consistently. And the way the season ended
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: it actually is the exact opposite of that.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: And leading into the portal and all this stuff.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: It's not good. And that's to the point where I'm like,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that's the question we asked late in the year, do
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: you think Matt Rule can well win a playoff game
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska or can win a playoff game in Nebraska.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a better way of phrasing nifty stays here,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I just right now, it's it's the answer to me,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: that's no. And and I think Matt Rule is at
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the point where he's questioning to a lot of things,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: as he should be.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: I think big take away from the season, gosh, I
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: don't know. I mean that pretty much well sums it up.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: I mean, my I just remember my biggest thread throughout
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: the year was just the defense. You know, was it
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: Tony White was the you know, was he the secret sauce?
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: I don't know. It was just our defense is bad
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: all year and the few games our defense played well, our
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: offense did not compete. I mean, once a Dylan Yola
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: went out, you could just you could see where the
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: season was going at that point. You know, we lose
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: a close one, close ish one to the USC. This
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: is like, okay, this is gonna be what we expected.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: But losing to all the ranked opponents. Yeah, I mean
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: the takeaway from the air is Matt Rule gets the extension.
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: But is you know, will he be here in two years?
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: That's like, you know, it's that's where we're at. It's like,
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know. We Luckily for him, Penn State had
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: a job opening, and now Troy Dan Danon has egg
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: on his face, so he's gonna be like, hey man,
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: you got it, Like I just gave you an extension.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: You know, you're you're moving people around like we're not
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: fucking around anymore, Like you have to do something because
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: I just gave you more money.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: The biggest the biggest takeaway I think is just how
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: horrible dose last three yeah, four games? The bowl game
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: Iowa Penn State. Am I missing one in there? No,
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: it would be those last three games. How horrible they look?
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: Just terrible way and the end the season and the
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: one season and no no momentum at all or the offseason.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: It's just horrible.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: And the defense, like you guys mentioned, is the main
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: reason why they got gash all three of those games.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: And it's offensive, defensive, both sides of the ball, just
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: having no adjustments. It's which comes back to the coaching staff.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: I think that's that's the main point right there is
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: there's no faith, I think any more in the coaching
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: staff to get get things done or just But then
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: there's one side if you guys wanna go positive here
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: come out of the season. One side of the ball
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: where we can be positive is how good the special
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: teams will all right there, we don't feel yeah, at
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: least at least we don't got to worry about going
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: the off season the best teams at all.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: You're right, we got know that that piece and the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: other thing I think that you could say that you
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: can put progress, progress and quotes around it is uh,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: you know, winning winning one score game or coming from
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: behind and doing that, you get that call it a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: monkey off your back. I mean, maybe it's just a
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: sign of being a little bit better. It's hard the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: way the season ended, but we did do that as well.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I always thought, you know, it's not it's not a curse,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: but people, you know, gets that was the narrative and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: we couldn't win a one score game, and so we
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: did do that.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: We showed that we're not just cursed for life.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: And yeah, Dak special teams, bet you got better like
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: you helped that and and why it's coaching. It's coaching.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Mike Eckler is a good special teams Coach's very good
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: at doing that. The other sides of the ball, I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: don't know. I just I don't. I still just don't
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: know that that rule is a good football coach. I
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: think he can. He's a good at at.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: I think he's a good recruiter.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I think he's a good, good leader of men. I
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: wouldn't go good recruiter because I think he's I don't
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: think he's a very good identifier of talent. I think
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: he's good at it. I think he's good at selling.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: He's a good salesman. He's good at selling the pieces
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: that two players, I mean is what I'm talking about,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: more to get people motivated and ready to go. I
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: think he's good at doing That is what his best quality.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know that he's a good football coach. I
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: don't know that he's a good identifier of what needs
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to happen, which goes to a lack of knowing what
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: he wants as a football coach.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: And I think I know what he wants. He wants
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: to run the ball, I mean physical on the lines,
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: but his behavior and recruiting.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: And you think, I mean, you think we think that's
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: what he wants.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: I but so there's one thing of knowing what you want,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: but then how do you how do you execute that? Again,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to go back to the basketball team, Fred was able
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: to figure that out and and it's paying off. I
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: don't know if Matt rule you can ever get there.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think his demeanor and his mannerisms and yeah,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to dive into the backwards hat Matt thing.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Into it.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know why it pissed me off so much.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: Called me Colin coward, but that pissed me off. It's like, dude,
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: it's like it's like you just know you're nonchalant about
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: like it looks like you just don't care.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I know. It's there's no questions on what he's trying
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: to do. He's trying to like be the cool because
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: he was position coach. So he's saying he's backwards hat
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Matt when he's coaching the defensive line, and then you know,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: you become the head coach, turned the hat around, you're
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: now the CEO. Back to that he's he's trying to
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: bring a little bit of like I call it just
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: toughness and and and cool.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: Guy like.
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: It.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Backfires are when you don't win and it looks stupid
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: and that's what happened, and then you get caught with
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: your pants down and you get laughed at. That's what happened,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't the time place to do it. I
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: like I said, it's stupid, it's dumb. He tried, he
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: was trying to bring a little bit of just fire
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and toughness to it.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Didn't work. That's what's scary is that.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say he's lost the team yet,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: but that's that's words headed guy. Feel like that's what's scary.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: It's words headed where he's kind of on his last
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: little bit of burraw of hope and glimmer what can
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I do to save this team?
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: Now you say that, but as far as.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: The portal goes, let's talk portal.
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: We really haven't had that many people who had significant
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: stabs snaps enter the portal. So you know, you're talking
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: about losing the team. It's like, well, at Donarla, Kana Davis,
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: and Malcolm Hartzog the rest of them are you know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: rotational players at best.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: So it's like, well, here's here's what I might take
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: away on that too.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Though. The other thing that we talked about this year
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: is how young we are, and especially in the DIVA
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: just side of the ball, like we're young, we're young. Okay,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: then if that's if that's the narrative, then we better
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: be developing them and making them better players. And a
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: lot of these guys are younger players. A lot of
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the names don't even really know that enter the portal. Well,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: if that's not happening, okay, so then you can don't
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: use that narrative anymore of us being young. And then
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: that is it's part of just the transfer portal era
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: of college football. You kind of take a stance on that.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: And if you're not going to develop, well, then you
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: better bring guys in the portal. And if you start
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: going down the list of positions that we need to
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: bring guys in the portal, you hit on about all
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: of The only one that I can say maybe we
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: don't need is.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: A kicker wide receiver. Kicker, I was gonna say tight ends.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I think we're good another year with Lynden Meyer and
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Carter Nelson probably, and then wide receiver maybe is the
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: next closest where I wouldn't be spending money. I'd be
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: spending money elsewhere. But other than that, you want to
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: go down the list and check the box of portal
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: guys that we need to improve our roster about everywhere else,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: and then to also just a sign of we're not
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: very good and what we have and that goes to
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: is this year four Matt Ruhle coming into it. That
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: goes to what he's been able to identify as talent
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: to develop as a recruiting class. And now we don't
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: even hear about our recruiting class being whatever the hell
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: we were one hundred and something ninety something like. Okay,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: so that's not us. Now we're a portal team. Okay,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: let's see. Because but I think it's the last resort
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: thing and I we're gonna we're gonna rely on the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: portal where Matt rule is really what guys have we
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: hit on in the portal?
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: None?
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: I mean I wouldn't say none. There was some defense, like.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Isaiah was a hit.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Guys we can say they're hits. But they're all just
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: very none of them.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: It's average.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a product of around. Players around there all
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: are just we're just so average. They're all everybody's so average.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Now that is a product of everything too. So yeah,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: you put them in the right system and and you
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: coach them the right way, and you have the right
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: play they looked at, but everybody they're so average. McColo
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: was a very average portal guy. Spindler was a very
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: average offensive Linemanaia Hunter was a very average receiver in
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the portal. Jeff Simms was a very poor quarterback. Yeah, easy,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: very poor. So so that's what that's the point. Yeah,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: you can call them hits, but we can't just be
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: average and we're gonna be average playing We're very average
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: team this year and we played very average. And so
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: when you play better teams than us, which we don't
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: look good. So that that to me is where gotta
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: you gotta gotta you gotta identify the diamond and the roughs.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Fred Hoiberg's identified some diamond in the rough guys. Dak
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: and I talked earlier. Austin Pryce Sanford. He wasn't great
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: at Iowa. He was solid, and he coming in I
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: didn't know what he Maybe he'd start play some shoot it.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Pryce Standford's are arguably second best player on the team.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Brayden Fraker, who the hell knew that? Like I's doing
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: so much for us, Like those are the type of
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: guys that the football team can never, never find and
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: hit on because we don't know how to identify who
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: these people are. That goes back to I don't think
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: we know what the hell we want Like we don't.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: We're so And that also is a product of.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Real mentioned the John Butler thing and how that all
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: went down, how the three three five was kind of
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: forced upon him from the Tony White era onto John Butler.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: That wasn't necessarily what he wanted to do. Well, yeah,
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: but that that bans it up, but a decision that
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Rule made.
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: Okay, don't hire the guy who doesn't want to coach
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: the scheme that you want to run and you wonder
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: all of that stuff.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: There's all there are all problems and issues of not
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: knowing what you want Matt rule, What do you want?
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Are you going to turn it over Dana or not?
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: You want to run the ball? Okay, then run the
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: ball and do it. But then the data, what does
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Dana want to do? Like, I think that's all just
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: an identity a problem that nobody really knows what the
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: hell is going on, and think aboutw the players feel.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: So if he's if he's wanting to stay around here longer,
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: I think this offseason he needs to. This is the
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: biggest thing he needs to do is figure out what
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: he wants to do identity wise and stick to it
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: if he wants to be here long term, and that's
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: and that's what's what needs to be because there's the
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: two or three years he's been here. There's just nothing
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: I can say. What he wants to do. No one knows.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: But what's funny with that is, though, are the players
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: going to even believe in what he wants to do anymore?
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Or does he have to turn it over to his
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: assistance and say all right, like I don't know, I
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: don't know the answer that. I don't think he knows
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: the answer to that. I think that's his decision, but
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: he's he's messed up that decision so many times, which
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: is why I think things are so concerning.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Some of the players we have gotten in here.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna mention him, and I think it's
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say pointless, but.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: Until we establish the line of scrimmage.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And I thought I'd get more excited about getting offensive
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: linemen in, but I've also improve it mode to even
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: these guys, I don't know how good they are. I
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: haven't really watched a lot of film on him. I
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: don't know Brendan Black, offensive lineman junior from Iowa State.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: And then Tree Babbelaide from South care Line of sophomore
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: and are coming in here.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Purchett stay, which I think is big.
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: So far.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's good that he's staying. You know, I
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: think you hope these guys help us. I think they could.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We got some winebackers, Owen Chambliss from
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: San Diego State coming with our a decordinator, Will Hawthorne
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: from Iowa State, freshman Dexter Foster from Oregon State to
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: sophomore safety Dwayne McDougall from San Diego State also coming over.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: And then that's it so far. I mean.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: Colandria that no, I that's it.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: That's it. Besides it, I say that for a last
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: I'm positioning everybody talks about we just better mention the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: the Kenny Minchi era solid like three days. That was awesome.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: I saw.
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: The rumor was was that we have a million, and
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: then Kentucky came out of me. They offered him two
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: million left and we're like, we're not giving you two million.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Those are all decisions now in collegeable that you got
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: to make.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: You're gonna say how much are you worth? How much
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: can you pay them?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Where are you spending your money, but apparently money's not
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: an issue here. We have all the resources we need
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: according to Matt rules.
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: So we have all the resources, but you don't want
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: to spend it on a quarterback. So you said, it's like, hey,
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: we're spending a million dollars for a quarterback.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and all the resources means you have unlimited money
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: in my mind, so you can spend as much as
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: you want. Everybody. I know it's not true, but again,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: don't say that crap stupid.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: I think you said we have all the resources we
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: need because Torey Dana said, hey, man, our boosters are
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: pissed you're not winning. You can't come out here and be.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, you don't have all the resources you need
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: because you're Yeah, it's just stupid.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Against don't say stupid stuff.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: I think he was told to say. That's what I think.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thoughts on Calandria, I think he'll look worse than
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: he's hyped.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Up to be.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: He can run the ball, and I think he'll be
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: worse than he's hyped up to be. I just I
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: didn't care what quarterback we were going to get. He's
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: not going to look like everybody thinks he's going to look.
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: Because it steps down from.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I just I don't think Dak. I agree. I think
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: his the style of his play, I completely agree, that's
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: the style of quarterback that I like. He's a higher
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: from what I've seen, He's a higher risk, high reward guy.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: He kind of just plays like a call. He plays
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: like a ball or he just kind of goes out
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: there and rolls it and a lot of energy energy
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: and he'll you know, he's one of those guys that
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: isn't afraid to take a hit. He's a good runner.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: He can throw it on the run. Like I think, Yes,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the style, I degree is kind of what we like.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: But he's gonna look worse when he comes here because
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: I don't believe this coaching staff will know how to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: handle I just don't think so. I guys, he's not.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: He looked at it. I was trying to see where
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: he rank. He's like the seventeenth best portal quarterback out there.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Minshe was around ten. Ryle is eight from just a
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: general public national evaluator of talent. I do think the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: style that he plays is better than seventeenth in the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: transfer quarterback. I do think that, but it's not like
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: we just went out and got Brendan Foresby.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: He didn't go that's the level quarterback we're willing to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: pay for. I think we were willing to pay Dylan
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: and all his three and a half million every year,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: and he probably wanted more, his brother wanted more, and
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: they're like, well, we're not going to pay Dayton. And
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: so the Dayton was out and then Dylan's like, well
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: I want another million, and they're like, we can't pay you.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: Three and a half is already more than we should
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: be paying a quarterback. And so I think ultimately they're like,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: we're going to get a ten to fifteen thran quarter back.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 6: We're gonna pay a million dollars. We're not gonna pay
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: anything more. And then she got his million. Then they're like,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: actually give you two and like we're not doing that.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: We'll see how it pays out. Like I agree. I
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: always said we need to spend our money elsewhere on lineman,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. And it looks like maybe
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: that's kind of the direction we're heading, Like you want
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about maybe having a little bit of hope,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: That's that's what I said.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Would kind of keep me around.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: And so far we're doing. I don't know how good
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: they are. Like that's the part that I just do.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not confident in. But you're yeah, I think that's
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: good point. It's it's gonna be hard for me to
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: just believe, I think right now until I don't know.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know until what do you think Landyer is
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: coming here with like TV battleline or you think that
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: they just told him, Hey, you're gonna be the start
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: right away, like here's the keys the offense, Like I don't.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: I think he saw t J. Keith and he's like,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna be the starter here. I'm not worried.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think you tell anybody you're you're starting here.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I think you can tell you. I think you tell
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: him you can be the you can be the you
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: can be the future for two years. And you can
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: tell him that and say you could you can be
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: You're you're not gonna You're not gonna give him a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: starting job anybody. You shouldn't. You shouldn't ever do that.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: You can you can tell me they could be if
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: they earn it.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: But but I think he looked at the it's like, yeah, okay,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: I'm competing as TGLE.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: People know I mean, you know what's gonna happen.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It just frustrating.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: It's well, here's here's a big thing about Glandry is
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: And I watched him a lot at Virginia, but basically
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: I had money on him. Mestling reason why Anyway, he's
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: a he's a gun slinger. He's he's gonna have some
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: passes where pissy off. He's gonna throw a tight windows
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: and stuff. He's not afraid to make any throw out there,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: which comes back to his confidence he has. He has confidence,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: that's for sure. What what's then come back coaching staff
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: is he can run the ball? Are they going to
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: use it though? That's that's like like the with the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: with Latif think he can run the ball, they never
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: used it at all.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: And that, I mean that made sense. It made sense.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: He can't run the ball. He's not good.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like as like holy ship, people thought he's dual threat.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: This guy's slow as hell.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: So again this goes back to stupid. Why did we
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: think he was such a good dual threat? And all
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: that was because we got told he was a running
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: back by the coaching staff early in the year. He
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: did he's like a running back. He's not like a
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: damn running back. Why why do we say stuff like it?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: You know, shame on us for believing that that stuff
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: from That's why I'm not I'm not believing anything Rule
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: says anymore. I just won't like it. Just stupid stuff.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: We got d Lineman, We we got guys that are
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Bowl rusher. It's gonna be about bullship.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: Like the best thing, the best thing you've said about
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: Rule is he's a car salesman and he has told
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: us up and down the last few years about this,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: this this bullshit.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: Use used car show to be specific on that.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: He just is like, he's like, the uh, you take
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: a car that's worth nothing and for trying to sell
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: it for five thousand dollars really good at that?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: You were buying it last year, So you're not gonna
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: be buying this off season at all.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: I've told you that. No, and I I bought him
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: to day heat.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah there is a no hunter.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: No we I It's not just yeah we all everybody
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: did that.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: I know, I know very pessimistic fans that bought into
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: what was going on this.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: I know you had a moment last year where were
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: like eleven wins. I feel like ten wins is the floor.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: There was a moment where I remember being like, holy shit,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: Hunter is who is this man?
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: I will promise you, I never said ten wins is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: a floor.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: You did no go find it, go find it. I
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: promised you.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: I never said that.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: I go find it, go find it, and me wrong,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: like I promise you, I never said ten wins. I
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: was hyped out. Everybody was hyped up.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, but yeah, it's there's just no momentum coming in
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: this offseason. And he talked to like all these like
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: i'd say, low key Husker fans. All of them were
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: just like, yeah, I don't even care about football team anymore,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: which is which comes back to rule, like, there's just
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: no hype towards him at all, and he's he's got
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: to figure it out now, which he hasn't proven at
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: all he can.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: Right, he's lost, he's lost the benefit of the doubt.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Here's where the moment got good for the and I
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: you know, you hope as a fan that it's not
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: the peak, but the peak was. And this is probably
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: the time that you guys were saying that. I was
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: like thinking, I know, going into the year, I did not,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I said seven wins, like, yeah, I think it was
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: after we were what was it or no.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: Michigan game.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know, somewhere in there where things were really
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: really good, where I thrible. I was, yeah, yeah, and
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: and and so you started looking at the schedule and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: started looking down the road U c l A was
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: a disaster. That was when everyone's like, okay, and this
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: goes back to the missed opportunity. It wasn't so much
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: getting hyped up and excited about the the thing that
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: we were at, the program we had. It was the
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: opportunity ahead of us with where things were going that
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: you're like, okay, like we can get to ten wins.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: And that's why the takeaway from the season is what
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: a missed opportunity and why now everybody's brains go, we
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: don't care anymore and this is not going well, and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: why I'm on the point of get rid of rule
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: like it just it? What what what you want to
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: talk about? Hope and selling? What the hell are you
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: selling anymore? What are you doing?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: Here's the here's here's the point where she hit the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: fan going back on the season is the Minnesota game.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: They're finally coming to the game and this difference between
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: the basketball team football team. To sett them down and
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: get the hype. Lets hype get to him. The hype
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: got to him that game and they got their ass kicked.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: The basketball team comes out against has the big game
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: Friday against Ship, comes back, beats to Ohio State, calms down,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: they just approved that. It was coach Daft who was
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: all hyped up, like, yeah, we're top twenty five in Nations.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: It is and you're right, it is, Dad, and that's
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: a problem.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: And it did. That's that's the excitement and the hype
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: that everybody so got sucked into because that's what it
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: was like, And yeah, it does.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: We all, we all got excited.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: That's part of being a fan.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah for sure.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I know some very pessimistic fans that
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: are fooled again this year by getting sucked into it
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: like that, like you did. I don't.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: I just there's nothing the bad.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: Burd is not a bad part. But so we have
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 6: got Matt Rule under contract until twenty thirty two. If
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: we fire Matt Rule, he's not going anywhere Like this
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 6: was it. I know, Like we're like we're like on
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: the hook for that there's no like James Franklin like, oh, hey,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: we're gonna have to pay you out.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I think too in this conspiracy. But
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I think Matt Rold that wouldn't care if he gets
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: fired right now and in a time, in a time
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: that next year he's looking at our schedule, he's going
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: out ship. It's going to be hard as hell to
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: to get to eight wins and quote unquote improve. I
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: think it's a little bit why he's wearing the backwards
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: at he stayed. They stayed in Vegas for two days
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: after when the portals opening, and there's a lot of
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: work to being done, and they stayed in Vegas to
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, have fun.
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  Speaker 2: Like Calandria, that's what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, so that good point. I just think
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  Speaker 1: he I think he's like, you know what, I get
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: fired now, who gives a crap? Like because he knows
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: next year is going to be very hard, and he's
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: probably like you're right, Austin. He's like, I'm probably not
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: working after this again.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: And like.
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  Speaker 1: If I am, it's as a coordinator or a consultant's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: role where I can not have I'm not a head coach.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Like he isn't he hasn't cared right now. There's another
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: negative reason of like they're saying, fire me, do it?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Dare you right now when it's a little bit more
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: controversial and you got to pay me more money? He's like,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I don't give a ship again. It's like maybe a
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: stretch thought, but at the same time, I don't think
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: he and then and then and the basketball team is
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: doing what they're doing and it makes them look even stupider.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 6: Is there any part of you that makes the basketball
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 6: I know I know there isn't, but friends of my bird,
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  Speaker 6: it took till you're.
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  Speaker 2: Just a big question. Yeah no, and.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: There's no lesson of gleam that time.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: I hope and I people are gonna say that too.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 6: I just need to ask.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: I think this is Nope. I think this is a nominal.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I just think that the hoy work things. It's one
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: of those things why he's given this much time because
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: there's very little expectations from the players too, so everything
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: that you try, it's kind of a it was just nice.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a win win situation, right,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: you do something doesn't work. People Fred's a pretty well
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: known coach. It just happens that he's a Nebraska guy.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Fred is that is a little bit of that tie
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: to it. It just happens that Fred is a very
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: even keeled dude too that kept things whatever. I know,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I I think you can. People are gonna say that
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: you need to get some one time. Okay, so what
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: are we gonna do. We're gonna stay here and hope
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: that Matt Reule can get done in your seven or
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: eight and sit here and it'suck on our thumbs and
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: and just hope that that happens, and that he's a
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: guy that what what reason? I get it. We didn't
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: have anything with with with Hoiberg either, But I it's
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: an I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean, in year four you saw real progress with Berg.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah you're four, and where we're at now, I guess
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: you see progress in Matt rule here.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: But if words progress what what?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: What?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Points to that? I just think it's they're very two,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: very different programs Nebraska. I do think what's happened with
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Fred is just an anomaly in sports in general with
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: how what what's happened? And it's a good anomaly. But no,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: I don't Yes, Fred was given time to learn from
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: his mistakes, but it wasn't like his The things that
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: were happening were like they were. We just it was horrible.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: I mean for both team is too, but it was
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: complete overhauls and that's what Fred's done. Matt Rule's not
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: doing a complete overhaul, or if he thinks he is,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: he just is like, I don't know.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: Very different.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, difference between Fred and Matt Rule is with these
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: giving him time is you could at least see kind
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: of what the vision Fred wanted a little bit and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: sounds on his bullshit that I think fans are trying
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: to get tired of. Like he he was telling them
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: straight up like we are terrible and and he was
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: like he wasn't selling these players aren't as good as
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: like they're better when they are.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wasn't very high on I said it
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: coming into this year.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like Fred, Fred doesn't make a tournament game that
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: you fire like, yeah, I obviously here, I'm not firing
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: Fred now. But it was one of those things that
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: it's just working. Things are working in it, and that's
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: props the last two three years of everything in the building.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: And again can't can't echo that enough because it was.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: It was one of those things where from the opposite
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: reason people were down and I was, this is ridiculous
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: for paying Fred Hoibert this much money for what we're doing,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: and that was stupid. You know what is proven us wrong?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: So I guess, yeah, there's a world where Matt Rurle
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: can go prove us wrong and go do it. That's
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: definitely able to be done. But I don't. I just
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: don't see it.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: Big question is it doesn't care enough. I don't. That's
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: he hasn't proven that yet.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: I think he might care enough.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 6: I won't say he doesn't care.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: I think he cares enough. I just don't. I don't
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: think he knows.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: It was that backwards having on me. But I don't
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: know why. I'm getting old.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah my last point, yes, maybe yeah, but I think
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: I think he's carried this whole time. Att rule has
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: been he's very pat I just don't think he's very
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: good at some things.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: So okay, a little longering today, I think it's okay.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Any other.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: Takeaway that you mentioned the Lady Huskers that women still too.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 6: They dropped two in a row, unfortunately, and then they
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: think they won and again the other night. So, but
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: we lost two ranked teams, and we lost the USC close,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 6: and we lost Iowa relatively, so they're still looking good.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: Yep. Can I keep going once a week here?
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: Who would have thought that the talk about wants to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: transfer portal Criman in January?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I would have thought that, because that's what we've
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: done every year.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: But more of the talk around than around the state.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's true, nationally stated, the portal has been whatever
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: it's it is.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: It's It's kind of funny because all the media outlets
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: have all their like portal trackers and are trying to
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: like keep talking about that. I'm like, I don't really care.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about this. We have something
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: else going right now. It's a lot more fun.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: Like you don't even have a defensive line coach.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: No, we don't yet, and therefore were therefore we have
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: not gotten one defensive lineman in the portal yet some linebackers,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: but all right back next week, God, jem, we are
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: go'll be Grid insist,