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Hello to #15 Ranking, Goodbye to #15 · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: We're turning to glory podcast here. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: pretag here what hunters are Nikki Austin Roads. Well, boys,
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  Speaker 1: i'm leaning the podcast today, I guess considered thanks to
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  Speaker 1: the thirty second warning for this hunter you told me about,
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  Speaker 1: it might be less than that. You said, Oh, you're
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  Speaker 1: just leaning the podcast. All right, here we go, son,
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  Speaker 1: Where do you wanna go today? Boys? Basketball or football?
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  Speaker 2: Basketball? Gotta start basketball?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: There were basketball school.
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  Speaker 2: We're basketball school. We've had the we have the issue
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  Speaker 2: of where sometimes we talk about football too long and
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  Speaker 2: that it's like, oh, we gotta cram on our basketball time. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we should probably starts basketball because we're Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because the all the well two of the main sports.
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  Speaker 1: There are some bad news going on, so all right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll start the good news. Nebraska wins eighty three to
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  Speaker 1: eighty at Illinois, which no one expected. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys, someone someone might bet their
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  Speaker 1: money line here, so maybe maybe they bet them. This
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  Speaker 1: was this was the big win that everyone's been talking
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  Speaker 1: about that I think Bruce Nebraska actually is for real.
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  Speaker 2: Now I am blowed away by dak right now. That
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  Speaker 2: was the hell of a rule.
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  Speaker 4: I love he's like he's like changing his his way.
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  Speaker 3: He's talking to It's great. This is he's doing a
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  Speaker 3: great job.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, do you.
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  Speaker 4: Want to talk Do you want to talk about Illinois Nebraska?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about it. Hunter. Did you think Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: is actually gonna win? Because you're the one that bet
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  Speaker 1: the money line?
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  Speaker 4: I actually didn't bet myself. It was for somebody else. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 4: but yes, I I.
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  Speaker 2: We we've been saying when was the spread when tip
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  Speaker 2: off happened?
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  Speaker 1: Eleven and a half Illinois, which I did take that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, wow, we've been we've been saying all these
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  Speaker 4: games like and I did too. I thought this is
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  Speaker 4: the one that could be a letdown. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're going on the roads, our first true road test.
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  Speaker 2: We just got ranked, just got ranked, and and.
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  Speaker 4: The promising thing was the way that we play and
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  Speaker 4: the strengths of this team.
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  Speaker 3: All lead to not.
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  Speaker 4: Letting you down because we've played so well together. We're
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  Speaker 4: not the most athletic team, we're not what they call
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  Speaker 4: front runners. You know, we were very tough. We played together.
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  Speaker 4: So I was like, if we keep it close, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's a big win, right, and and we did that
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  Speaker 4: plus something. And then as the game was as we
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  Speaker 4: were ahead early on and and Samford went off in
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  Speaker 4: the first half, and it's like, you know, why not
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  Speaker 4: just win this game?
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  Speaker 3: Just just get it done?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the hottest you ever saw some money college
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  Speaker 1: in a while? Like that guy, that was the hottest
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  Speaker 1: five minute stretch I've probably ever saw. And Steph Curry,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he could. He literally his shots were not even
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  Speaker 1: hitting the net. They were just going right through.
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  Speaker 2: Price checks man, great line. Oh price checks.
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  Speaker 1: I like, I haven't heard that one.
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  Speaker 2: It was I So I caught the second half. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't catch the first half. Okay, I got a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of the first half on the Big ten sixty
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  Speaker 2: minute rewatch, which I love. Those are great. I freaking
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  Speaker 2: love the big ten to sixty minute rewatches from ball
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  Speaker 2: and basketball because I went to the creating Kansas State
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  Speaker 2: game to see if they were any good because tickets
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  Speaker 2: were dirt cheap, and I was like, well, we beat
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  Speaker 2: both of them. I'm curious if they actually look good
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  Speaker 2: in person.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you know.
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  Speaker 2: The mixed review. So but yeah, it just we stormed,
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  Speaker 2: or we survived the storm of you know, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the first half, Illinois goes on a thirteen
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  Speaker 2: oh run or is it end of first half start
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  Speaker 2: of the second half, and we survived. I was so
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  Speaker 2: because I was so. I was sitting at the basketball
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  Speaker 2: game and I looked at the score with a minute
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  Speaker 2: thirty left in the first half, and we were up
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  Speaker 2: by eight, and I was like, okay. And then I
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  Speaker 2: looked at the halftime score and it was tied, and
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  Speaker 2: I was a little bit and I was like, ah, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had a good little run there at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. And then I got home and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh shit, it's still a game. It just I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, every people think Illinois is for real. And
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  Speaker 2: obviously that was you know, reflected in the spread. And
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  Speaker 2: their coach was a little bit unhinged. I mean he
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  Speaker 2: was one okay that caught the into the game that
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  Speaker 2: we got. I guess Illinois where Brad Underwood lost his mind.
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  Speaker 2: That was a bad call.
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  Speaker 1: We we got a challenge under two minutes. Kay. I
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  Speaker 1: was wonder about that because I was like, why is
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  Speaker 1: he not challenging this?
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  Speaker 2: If I was in Nebraska, if they haven't Nebraska, I
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  Speaker 2: would have also been very upset, you know, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we just I don't we just seem to have the answers.
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  Speaker 2: We don't. We don't fall apart and.
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  Speaker 4: Austin you mentioned obviously the responding in the end of
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  Speaker 4: the first half, early second half, late when we had
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of a lead. What this team does
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  Speaker 4: is when the team tries to do something, we have
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  Speaker 4: a response. And this game came from Garcia like that.
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  Speaker 4: That just that that didn't even wasn't even on the er,
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  Speaker 4: the last pick I would have had on on the
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  Speaker 4: Bingo card for the entire game.
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  Speaker 3: And and here he is.
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  Speaker 4: I think he had about four or six consecutive points
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  Speaker 4: and almost had an incredible reverse layupougo rebounds from a
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  Speaker 4: guy that I don't know we were. He's really kind
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  Speaker 4: of playing more because the season got hurt. Like so
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  Speaker 4: when guys like that step up, then you're going days
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  Speaker 4: like it just it makes you feel two big free throws.
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  Speaker 4: Keep that in mind, dude, Like all.
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  Speaker 3: Of that stuff, it just it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I let's just say I've been researching
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  Speaker 4: and running shoes and why is that looking I haven't
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  Speaker 4: bought him yet. I'm just looking at him now.
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  Speaker 2: I saw our projection on the ESPN was Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 2: So if it's Oklahoma City, we're driving boys.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going regardless.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think the main part about this
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  Speaker 1: game too, what you just mentioned Garcia is but the
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  Speaker 1: other two guards the bench should not play well, Jacobson
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  Speaker 1: and Frager, and and still were able to plull out
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  Speaker 1: the win. I think that was a big part. Which
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  Speaker 1: you're anymore from those two for sure coming out more
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  Speaker 1: than big ten play you're like, you can't. There are
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  Speaker 1: not very many I don't think many games of those
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  Speaker 1: two doing. Did they even score? Those two? I can't remember.
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  Speaker 3: Jacobs is on a scorer though, Like keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's a defender, but.
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  Speaker 3: His roles different.
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  Speaker 4: And problem with what Jacobson was he kind of struggled
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  Speaker 4: with pressure again, which I mean, that's that's what kind
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  Speaker 4: of what you expect out of him, but you need
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  Speaker 4: to be a little more sure of it. And then
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  Speaker 4: obviously Frager he's a very good shooter and Illinois had
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  Speaker 4: that scalp very very well and it was hard for
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  Speaker 4: him to get anything done. So yeah, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna face team that provides adversity, and so the ability
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  Speaker 4: for us to adjust and Jared Darcy is was the
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  Speaker 4: answer for that this game and it's gonna be something
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  Speaker 4: different probably every game, actually understand But then Sansford, obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's first half.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that was the other answer. It Without that,
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  Speaker 3: you don't win those games.
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  Speaker 4: And but that that's what it takes through games on
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  Speaker 4: the road, is having games like that from from different people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not said, I'm not. I don't know how good
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  Speaker 2: Illinois is gonna end up. This year they played Keaton
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  Speaker 2: Weigler all forty minutes, which I thought, I don't know that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting stuff going on there. But
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  Speaker 2: even when, however, you pronounced that when he hit that
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  Speaker 2: three to tie it at the end, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that's how you want to take that shot the guy
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  Speaker 2: who hasn't you know? It's like, okay, I can live
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  Speaker 2: with that. And then when JaMarcus Lawrence got it, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, gosh, I don't know if he's the guy
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  Speaker 2: I went taking it on our end and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's got the look, and I mean obviously he had
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  Speaker 2: the look, but he kind of moved around excessively to
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  Speaker 2: get there and it was wild.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys hear Pavelka's call, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's alive. After that, I mean, can we just
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  Speaker 1: take our hats off to well, me and Hunter both
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  Speaker 1: to JaMarcus Lawrence of how much how better we thought
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  Speaker 1: he was coming in this year, Like, I didn't expect
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  Speaker 1: this at all.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: He has totally taken over the true point guard role
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  Speaker 1: and completely run this team well. And I'm so impressed
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  Speaker 1: with him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a little bit opposite. I kind of expected this.
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  Speaker 4: I thought this is kind of who he was going
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  Speaker 4: to be, being the senior on the team. And the
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  Speaker 4: two the two definents that I kind of had coming
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  Speaker 4: into the year were Ranking JaMarcus, and those two have
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  Speaker 4: been the steady anchors for this team. And I think
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  Speaker 4: when you have that one being kind of a point
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  Speaker 4: forward in rank and then and then a more true
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  Speaker 4: point guard in JaMarcus, I mean that that helps these
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  Speaker 4: role players all kind of step up and be who
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  Speaker 4: they are when you have guys that are pretty well rounded,
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  Speaker 4: uh at all all areas of the game. And I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: for a senior to hit that shot, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it was drawn up from it didn't look like
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  Speaker 4: it probably was, but that was how the help defended
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  Speaker 4: it and JaMarcus.
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  Speaker 1: Got it.
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  Speaker 3: Got it. Gotta look up like it wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the ideal, probably form shot that you wanted
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  Speaker 4: to but you know what I mean, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: what you do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you get it. You gotta clean look up at the.
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  Speaker 4: End of the end of the game.
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  Speaker 2: So I think Fred said that it was designed to
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  Speaker 2: go to the rank or price and he ended up
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  Speaker 2: giving it. Sam ended up giving it to JaMarcus. I
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  Speaker 2: still would love to see one of our I if
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  Speaker 2: I understands corrects. We still are big guys are still injured.
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  Speaker 2: I can't I don't know how to pronounce.
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  Speaker 3: His name is yours visage?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is he still hurt? I think he is.
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  Speaker 3: I I just I just have not heard.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the guy you've been hyping up?
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  Speaker 4: Hunter just are the same thing that Austin just said.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard that he's could be help us. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know anything more than.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to have someone. I mean, bar Kay
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  Speaker 2: obviously look good two games ago this game. I'd love
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  Speaker 2: to I just would I like to have someone else
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  Speaker 2: that he can rotate in. Obviously Carcia is good, but.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Garcia was that guy this game. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think he was much until this game. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: he can actually come in and play a forward spot
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  Speaker 4: pretty well. I mean both both ends of both sides
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  Speaker 4: of the court. But like we've said all along, our
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  Speaker 4: our our defense, you're the lack of big men does
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  Speaker 4: not get exposed because we don't one on one post ups.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we don't allow post ups ever.
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  Speaker 3: And it was funny. I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 3: listen to h Underwood after the after the game at all.
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  Speaker 4: His press conferences, like a fifteen minute press conference is
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  Speaker 4: pretty pretty entertaining to me.
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  Speaker 3: I was entertaining for multiple reasons.
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  Speaker 4: He just said that you don't get post touches against
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  Speaker 4: Nebraska or like, you can't. It's impossible because of the
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  Speaker 4: way they defend like that. And when you take something
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  Speaker 4: like that out of the game because maybe you don't
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  Speaker 4: have the size of the defense, it it really forced
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  Speaker 4: you to do other things.
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  Speaker 3: And and I mean he knew that, Like it was
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  Speaker 3: pretty neat to see hear him say that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it was neat to hear him say in
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  Speaker 4: credit Nebraska, and I mean for us for very good
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  Speaker 4: coach like that to basically say that we're really good
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  Speaker 4: was it was kind of neat, and he was he
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  Speaker 4: just he got on a couple of his guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, whoever. The guy was like, he's still in Serbia.
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  Speaker 2: His you know, his head's not good. But asked the
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  Speaker 2: bench bench dead or.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever they bold Bob Knight quote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, damn, that's pretty cut throat. There's
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  Speaker 2: a good win, though, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean the guys, we haven't really talked
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  Speaker 3: about where we're at.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we're ranked them both the aping coaches.
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  Speaker 2: In my I texted you guys, and I said, it
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  Speaker 2: still feels too high. I don't We're not team in
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  Speaker 2: the country. I don't feel good about that.
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  Speaker 1: But do we need to pinch yourselves to make sure
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  Speaker 1: this is real?
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  Speaker 4: Like they were, they were waiting for us to win,
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  Speaker 4: I said. They the rankings, the rankings and the coaches
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  Speaker 4: of the media ballots. They were they were waiting for
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  Speaker 4: us to get a quality not that not that some
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  Speaker 4: of our other winds weren't like good quality wins, but
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  Speaker 4: a true big win.
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  Speaker 1: And this was it.
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  Speaker 4: And and I think that's one reason why you saw
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  Speaker 4: the skyrocket. We could have been ranked. We talked about that,
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  Speaker 4: I mean long before we were, but we just kind
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  Speaker 4: of were hanging out in the receiving votes category when
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  Speaker 4: we were seven.
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  Speaker 2: And oh eight O.
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  Speaker 3: And then getting this win, everybody goes, Okay, there, here
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  Speaker 3: they are.
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  Speaker 2: We got this win after slaughtering Wisconsin, Yes, and slaughtering Creighton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was all in the same week. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: the best week in the Brass basketball every.
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  Speaker 3: I mean talk about tough week and winning all three games.
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  Speaker 4: I it big believer and mean same thing when we
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  Speaker 4: got ranked, like trying to stay under the radar, don't
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  Speaker 4: don't draw the attention to you, stay hungry, all those things.
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  Speaker 4: I hope we do that and don't get caught up
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  Speaker 4: and being ranked in And we have all reason to
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  Speaker 4: believe that we shouldn't get caught up in it because
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  Speaker 4: this team's playing so well.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to go undefeated. We're gonna trip up
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  Speaker 3: in some games, but the.
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  Speaker 4: Quality of how we're playing right now is I think
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  Speaker 4: pretty deserving of I mean, for sure top twenty team
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  Speaker 4: and right now I think the projections I saw Habits
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  Speaker 4: as like a five seed in the tournament. The only
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  Speaker 4: hope I have left for myself is my running bed
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  Speaker 4: is that we're the perfect five seed, the five to
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  Speaker 4: twelve upset.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna care for that twelve seed if it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to that. No, no, dak.
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  Speaker 2: Never, No. But yeah, I mean even you know, you
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  Speaker 2: look at so next two games in theory, pretty good
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  Speaker 2: chance of winning. Obviously we could still lose him. But
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  Speaker 2: North Dakota New Hampshire. So we go into number nine
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  Speaker 2: Michigan State thirteen to zero. I mean, you your first
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  Speaker 2: thirteen games of the year, it's I have a hard
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  Speaker 2: time seeing it's just not making the tournament.
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  Speaker 4: I think making the tournament. I saw like ninety chance
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  Speaker 4: right now, so like, yeah, obviously things could fall off,
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  Speaker 4: but right now things things are looking very very good for.
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  Speaker 3: For the Huskers and Fred and year seven.
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  Speaker 4: I also other funny thing with Fred's finally got ranked
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  Speaker 4: as high as the salary he's getting paid, and he's
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  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly where he's at, but he's around
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  Speaker 4: like the fifteenth highest paid coach in college basketball.
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  Speaker 3: So he's finally ranked, finally ranked his high.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it just takes time. Sometimes it's a seven year build,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we have a little bit more patient with
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  Speaker 1: the basketball team. Than the football team. True, but how
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  Speaker 1: many how many gays are you keep on saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is the one where you believe in Brasky's it's
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  Speaker 1: K state or no, it's the first, the ms K
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  Speaker 1: state and now it's Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's not gonna be until the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be like, Okay, this team is real.
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  Speaker 4: It's all It's all about winning that tournam Again, it's
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  Speaker 4: sad as it is to say, no pressure if.
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  Speaker 2: We if we run through the year and we finished
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  Speaker 2: twenty five and five and then we go to the tournament,
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  Speaker 2: we lose the first If we lose the first round,
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  Speaker 2: it's a disappointing. Like yeah, as as much as I
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  Speaker 2: hate to evaluate the entire season off of one game's performance,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: Dad, you tell me you Braska basketball only. I mean
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  Speaker 4: you're saying breast basketball is real?
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  Speaker 3: What what what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: I say from the beginning, the team's gonna be damn good. No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, I won't. I won't say I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: this good. But but I think they're a five seed minimum.
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  Speaker 1: I think they are really good. Like in this game,
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  Speaker 1: I think proved it going on the road.
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  Speaker 3: I think you think there are five seed minute them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Minimum?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, so let's make another bet.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: If we're higher than a five seed, I'll run two. Otherwise,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: if they're lower than a five seed, you got to
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: run it with me. Nope, that he's Look, it's a
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: five seed minimum. You said five seed that you just
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: you just said that. Why you just hold your horses?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, run a podcast. I'm kinga talk out of my ass.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: So so you don't think it's a five seeds minimum?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: He just doesn't think it's worth a bet.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: No, it's I'm not as confident as in winning a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: tournament game right now. I just think now it's gonna
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: come down to and the tournament is if they go cold.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: That I'm still worried about them going cold and who's
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: going to push through these swamps that they have, because
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: We do still have, I mean every game, we do
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: still have that that miraculous where we just can't score
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: for four minutes. I don't get it. It doesn't feel
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: like happen.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I think we read into it like it's an US thing.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: It's everybody.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I mean that it just happens.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: It happens to everybody.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: It's but it's like in every game thing I think,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: flip side of flip it. We do that to the
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: other teams every game too.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Our's just is always at the beginning of the game.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Then we go cold.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this one into the half. I I mean, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: don't know what you guys thought. You I thought, but
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: this is the end of that. I was like, well
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: they looking at the first half. Yeah, I was like,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it's like they figured it out expecting I'll win by
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: ten plus. After that, I was like that, well, you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: know what, this team doesn't quit. That's That's another thing
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: is with Sam that that guy's motor is insane. He
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: won't play a lick in the pros. But that guy
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: is the perfect college player to like killd the slumps
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to his energy and stuff. I don't think that he'll
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: let this team get into these slumps are get blown out.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: We're just a we're an old team. Yeah, I mean
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: that's I think that's really what it did is we
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: have mostly seniors and juniors.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Playing, and me not a coacher that praised Sam recently.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I don't McDermott did I know Underwood did Underwood did
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: like for that reason, and when you have a guy
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: like that that is kind of the maybe not the
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: scoring leader, but the spearhead of the intangible piece that
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: it helps tremendously. Speaking from a coach too, like that
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: is when you have that person, it really helps the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: psyche of your team on both ends when you something
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: might not go well for a couple of possessions, but
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you have that person that can pick you up and
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: bring a spark a different way.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, we'll see, I said, we'll probably
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: want our next two will be thirteen and oh going
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: into the Michigan State game and Ring it could be
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a top two top ten teams.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, well I thought number eleven Louisville loss
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: last night. Not sure that'll be enough for us to
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: jump them, But you're right it we'll see where we're at.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Probably we're not. I don't think we're gonna draw. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: guess that, you know, it's kind of where that spot where. Yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: we could, but if we're thirteen, if we don't lose,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: or're thirteen and no, I'd have a hard time seeing
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: us drop much.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: If I want to decline being ranked, I just I
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: want to. I just want to never be ranked the
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: I don't like the.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah we uh So I called Hunter after the Illinois game.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you gotta jump on the Michigan State tickets
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: right now, they're gonna shoot up. He found four for
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: thirty bucks and then raculously the email and say, oh,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the ticket's already sold. But we end up we end
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: up finding sixty dollars tickets. But I don't know if
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you saw the prices now Austin, it's like one hundred
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and twenty bucks just to get in.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Oh man, people are excited.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: It's that's gonna be a fun game. Probably, I know
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: he said this is that's probably the biggest home game
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: for sure in the fred fred era.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably as far as going into it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Now if they drop New Hampshire Northakota and that just
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: shoots the air out of the balloom.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: But I just ape, and they're gonna be twelve and
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: one going into the Nebraska game. In theory two if
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: we all because they're playing Cornell and Oakland, so Michigan
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: State's gonna.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Be top ten matchup.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think we'll I don't think
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: we'll move up five spots by playing two chump teams.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Because top fifteen matchup?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: What about fifteen matchup?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be exciting.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for our host to move us on
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: to the next topic.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's jump into it. So we'll jump
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: into Husker football.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What there we go?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Well, you know we're gonna move here, Hoscar football. The
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: big news is no no offensive lineman yet in the portal.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: That's That's about the only news I I know that
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that happened this.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Week, signing anywhere from the transfer portal.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Next topic.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Alright, so doing right, I'll transferred out.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Not out. He just enter the does intend to enter
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the portal?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Into the portal on Monday afternoon. There's there's mixed reviews
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I've been getting from Oscar fans somewhere saying it's good.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: See yep, some of them are freaking out. I don't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: know where you guys laying on this. I don't, I don't.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I'm on the same size on here. I don't think
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it really matters much if he was here or not,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: because the offensive line is that bad. He can't play
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: behind that a line.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Thanks for copying, my dake, I appreciate it well.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I want to get that out for you said it,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: because I totally.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Agree when you lead the podcast is it is.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Alright, spit it out.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Let's hear.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I don't. I I'm in. I don't care unless we
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: get off into the lineman.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I think, gee, Wade's ah, I don't know. I'll say it, okay,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: higher for what I know we got we gotta get
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: gotta get some people to come in.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I you know, we can develop the young guys that
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: we have on the roster.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I think that's a piece of the big picture. But
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: it it's gonna start in the line, and not just him,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: not just on the offensive line, but defensive line as well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Defensive line this Bowl game.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: So we'll see what he what he is back to
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: his old roots of position coaching. I know Mike Eckler
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: is helping with the with the edge rushers.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there we go.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: What what's what's interesting is is, and I've been listening
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: to other podcasts and talk about all this movement. You know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: is there a place for Mike Eckler with his energy
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: and enthusiasm with a position coach job. John Butler was
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: asked that when he got hired and it was like
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: responding to like it was a dumb question.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know, like.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: You're we're gonna see role coaching, you know, Eckler coaches
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: and different things here for the bowl game. We'll see
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: how maybe some of the energy and the players respond
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: to that. But I think the last few games you
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: want to talk about lack of energy and lack of
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: motivation from a lot of our players on on both
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: offensive and defensive line. I mean, I think that's a big,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: big piece to those positions. Let's just say, uh, you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: you can have some dudes, but I mean that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Those are the trenches. That's that's the that's the war zone.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: That's where you are going to battle every single play,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: and if you're not ready to go, it can look
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: pretty ugly.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Now I'm saying that with an asterose.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Our offensive line kind of did okay towards the end
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: of the year, but defensive line just continued to hurt.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean Ecklers started as a linebackers coach
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: right before we come in.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: He's done it, yes, history, Yeah, I.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Don't are there really any transfers announcing where they've gone yet?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I don't really know.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: For some reason, I don't know the details on it
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: actually open or people just can declare. I don't think
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: the portal is officially until, like I want to say,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: it's early, like Jane, it's like Jane, it's a two
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: week period. I think it's like January second, January sixteenth
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: is what it is.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I thought. So that's why I was like, well,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you can declare, Yeah, you can digest, which is what
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Dylan has done. He declared his intent. So what I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: told you guys is like, I'll wait, because you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: there's he could just be shopping.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I don't what are your chances you think he's he's leaving.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I feel pretty good about it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, I'm ninety eight percent sure he's gone.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Like because just I mean, as far as brand goes
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: as the starting quarterback, you can't be like I'm mentioning
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the it works for other positions, it doesn't work for
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the quarterback. Can't be as a team captain. It it
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: looks bad unless if you actively go around and tell
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: people within the building of like, hey, I'm just but
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: you can't do that if you're trying to do as
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a leverage play.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know all the specific rules of what you
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: can and can't do, but guys are constantly shopping as
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: far as shopping around, so.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Like you have agents doing it for you.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: So it's not It's not like by him declaring now
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: is his first opportunity that he's hearing what he's worth,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Like he he has an idea, and all these guys do,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: they especially the bigger name guys. So I'm just I'm
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: just very indifferent on it. Like obviously Dylan has had
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: he is one of the best pocket passers that we've
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: had ever and our ever I mean our lifetime but
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: probably ever, and and yeah that's a credit, But I don't.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: That's not personally my belief in a type of quarterback.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: When I'm when I'm recruiting on NCAA Football twenty six, like,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I'm never recruiting pocket passers.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I just I don't.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Those aren't the guys that I like. And I think
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: for the word of brasket football's out of a program.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: That's not the kind of guy that that fits what
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: we want to do on offense. Now, maybe the five
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: widers people that believe in that stuff like want that,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: but I I Dylan obviously is very talented, but he's
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: not the person I think.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: That fits us great here. We gave it a shot
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: for a couple of years, like tried to see if
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: it works.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Think we've we found that you need an offensive line.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Even if you try to bring in pieces around him
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: as on skill players, it's not enough.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: And and so Yeah, I've talked about his mobility.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: A lot going into year two, losing weight, all of that,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Like it didn't happen.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: We got told that his bodies in the right condition.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: That was how they framed it. That didn't matter. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: guess my prediction of him not being here for four years.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I think I said maybe my most likely was after
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: one year, but two years of him leaving at because
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: we aren't I'll say it, we aren't good enough for
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: him to be here. He deserves to be at a
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: better school. Like it's weird to say, but he should
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: be at a better power.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Five school state Georgia, and maybe not.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Even that high caliber. But I don't know that he'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: end up somewhere like that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Maybe he will, maybe he won't.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, you guys aren't on the train of
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: liked him or youthing. I go glafs Riola.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Are you like I wouldn't go that far, but there
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: is a part of you that's kind of like his
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: message was all just you. You want to believe when
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: he came in here, like, hey, I'm here because this
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: is where I want to be. It's my home, you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: it's my dad's legacy. I want to help turn it around.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: And then when it doesn't go your way, you leave it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: You know, it's like, Okay, I get it, but also
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: it makes you feel a little bit disappointed because he
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: wanted to believe the message was real.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like it's kind of like a job. Well,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: here we go a job offer. If someone gives you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a better offer, you're gonna go take that, like and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like the same with him, Like it's he's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: better than like Hunter to say he's better than what
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: he has here. You can go find a better school
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and that physics skills set better.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And but he has that option two years ago and
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: he chose us. You know, it's so you you wanted
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to believe that, Yeah, he actually wants he's choosing us
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: because he actually believed that he can help turn us around.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And now are you are you getting a lot of
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: job offers that or no, I'm actually off the market now, okay.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So like.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Here's the other thing with Dylan and I.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Obviously you had a bunch of extracurricular antics. The Mahomes
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: comparisons that him leading us out like twenty yards to
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: head everybody in the tunnel like stuff like that, like
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: the extra stuff that I don't want to.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Call it a show, but it is.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: It is show a little bit, right, and for whatever
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: the purpose and reason behind it is. And and when
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: you don't win with it, and this also ties back
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: to rule too, like when you have a lot of
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: show and I think the plus and positive side is
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: just with kids, kids, high school kids, college kids, transfers,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: all of that that attracts people to say, oh, this
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: looks kind of fun, like this is this is part
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: of what I want to be a part of when
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: you're winning. When you don't have success, now you look
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: like an idiot and a fool. And we just got
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: to the point where it just got a little and
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: that's why people were a little laughing at Mahomes. The
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Mahomes deal in comparison, right, like they're like, why is
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: he doing this? You're at Nebraska, and we were all like, yeah,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: but we're winning. And at the time, you know, start
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: the year, we're like, okay, this could be we're moving
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: and I when you're winning and you put that in
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: combination with it, then things could start rolling. Well it didn't,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: and now it's like, you know what, it's probably not
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: gonna work. You were dealing anymore, it probably won't. We're
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: we were paying him whatever, three and a half million,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: three three and a half million dollars.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Was the estimate.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Probably not worth that, so at least here, Yeah, and
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I we'll just we'll just see where he lands. It
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: just wasn't a fit, wasn't the right fit. And I'm
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: glad we didn't hang on for another year and we're.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Moving on.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know your Dan to talk about it. He
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: didn't or didn't really talk about it. He was asked
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: about it. He just that it's the era we live in,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: which it's also not wrong either. You're not going to
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: see probably many quarterbacks four years at the same school anymore.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It's just not the thing that our last we haven't
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: had the last who's the last starting quarterback to graduate
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: or to end their career as a.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Husker probably Tommy Armstrong.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Heiner Carver, Oh yeah, yeah before that, because Case
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Thompson Martinez, Jeff Simms had a good year this year,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: maybe we get him in the portal.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Gus Martine.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna I just because what's going to happen and
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: the latifs things still up in the air. We'll see
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: how the ball game goes. They you know, he could
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: he could also he could also enter the portal. I
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: don't think that's out of the question either, just to
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: see what's out there. We probably could end up with
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: a transfer quarterback, like from somewhere, and people are gonna
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: get so jacked. I'm already waiting for the watch the
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: first video of all this new quarterbacks highlights from wherever
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: it is.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: And everybody's like, all right, all right, we're good. Like
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: it's just gonna be the world we live in. It
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: won't matter.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: It will not matter unless we get better off, Unti
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: b Lineman. Otherwise we're gonna be stuck in the same cycle.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: And you know, I think that's that's Jeep Wade's Matt
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Ruhle's job. But that's why he brought Jeep Wade in
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: to hopefully have some connections there and and help bring intout,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: but then also develop the in house talent that we already.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Have, which no one else. I mean, there's still a
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: bowl game, so I think people will announce it after
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the ball game. But I don't think anyone else has
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: announced their intention to enter the transfer portal.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Correct, Yep, been very.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Again. Like I said, it's still early, and I would
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: expect there to be more after the bowl game announcement
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and probably spring, but.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Just doing there is some good quarterbacks out there already
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: in the portal. There's there's one I think I'd be
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: jacked about. I think I think Hunter, and I don't know.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I think also, I think you like this guy. But
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: in game one Soresby's in the portal. I think he
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: would be perfect.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of decent quarterbacks in the portal.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Or Lagway from Florida, Like I I think Soresby would be.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: If Latief wants to go, I don't. If a teach stays,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I think, just let him. Let him have the reins
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens this year, because.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: The quarterbacks are going to look bad here if we
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: don't have a line. I don't will.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: This year either you know, so it's not cool.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Lagway will look bad if we don't have a line.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Or the way every Johnson and just the portal, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: then then there you go, that's avery.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Johnson will look bad if we don't have a line.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Well, all right, I'm telling you it does not matter
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: what Adrian Martinez was the almost perfect definition of what
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I thought we could use here, but we did not
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: have a great offensive line around him. And yeah, he
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: got some stuff done, but but.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Then he looks better when he left. Yeah, bitch, which
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: helped a God that rule gets onmends line doesn't come
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: out and do all his bull crab. Oh we got
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: all these skillwater receiver stuff. No go get go, get
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a line, for the love of God. If he doesn't,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that's got to be the end of rule. Like, get
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: him out of there before even kick off. Next year
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he does not have an offensive line.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Thanks Dak for just hammering home my point.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I like we talked about offensive line that are hard
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: to get in the portal. Last year we did get two,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: i mean two starters in the transfer portal. So kind
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: maybe Grant Bricks actually shakes out to be what he's
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: was built up to be. He didn't see the field
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: at all last year. It was making it a little
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: bit nervous. No, I agree.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I Roco is a very good grab and and.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I think some I heard Sauce one say, you know,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: we paid close to two and a half three million
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: for two portal linemen last year, so like, yeah, that
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: was a good step. But everybody else are our tackles.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: And Elijah Pritchett got better. I think he's okay. I
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: don't think he's worth what we paid him so far
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: had it proven to be.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: But he's won. I think you give another year.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: He's not he's not He's not a he's not a win.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: He won the starting job. I mean in an act
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of competition, he did win the starting job.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah well you just did did Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: It could be a tough I don't know. Get give
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it three months while be hyped up again.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: You again, you know, mark it down. December fifteenth, Hunters
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: out on him. Well we'll revisit this in June July.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: You have to wait till that next ten SIA game
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: comes out.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Definitely get away for.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: You actually might not be jacked.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Our offensive line gets like an eighty eight grade across
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: the board.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Then I'll be jacked on the NHA.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's there's really no hypo Oscar football
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: program right now. I feel like which is which is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: not normal?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: But the ball game could be.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: In hands retiring.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Did you add that, dude, it's the biggest spread of
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: any bowl game.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean them it's not playing. I don't know
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: is Rocco playing. He might not be playing. Yikes, it's
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: gonna be rough, guys, not gonna lie.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: It's it's the chief showcase. See what you got.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, according to you, Watief is he's here. He's
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: better than.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Dylan Jimmy got. After the game, you were so.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Precky high on him, and I was like, well maybe
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: maybe he'll be is were we could see his talent here.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, I still think I still do think he's
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: getting now. I was a little high on the horse
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: after that UCLA game, but I do still think he
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: has that he's he was a freshman. He looks awful
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: against Iowa and Penn State. I don't know what to
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: take away from that game, either, but.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I believe I got a text message Hafwick through the
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Penn State game too and say about he was clearly
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: better than Dylan.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Here's this is what the funny problem is is like
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: we do and we sit here, we talk about quarterbacks.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Iowa's quarterbacks are never good. Minnesota's quarterbacks are never good,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: like if.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Because they have a freaking offensive line.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Like I, I just, I don't know, you're an awski quarterback?
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: You want though, I.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Think everybody's not. Like look at guys that look at
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: his first six games. He would have been shot on
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: a pedestal. If he would have had those stat numbers
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: at Nebraska, we would have been freaking the f out,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Like I just, we get so hyped up and jacked
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: about talent and skill players when when we don't have
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: a foundation and identity of what we're trying to do.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: That's that's the real problem here. It's not the quarterback
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: is to me.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: To me right now, we need to might need a
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: quarterback that can just game manage and fill in and
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: just step in and do that. We don't need to
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: get so jacked about about who we got. It's because
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: we don't.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: It doesn't.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: It's not a position that matters. We don't need the
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: corporate to go and make a bunch of plays all
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the time. Like because we feel comfortable, comfortable with the
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: players around him, Like that's what we need.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: My concern really lies with the just the you know
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Matt rules, like, hey, we develop our players in the house,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: but we haven't really, I mean they come in as
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: freshmen and their productive or they transferred to their productive.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say that if that's if that's the strategy,
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: it's not good.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: We haven't had those guys who have been writing in
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: the bench. You're gotten a few snaps that just pop
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: after you.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Know, Yeah, if that's what Rule says, But then everybody
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: else says, oh, we're a portal team like it just unfortunately,
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: I think it's a bigger problem than we think of
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: a problem. It's a bigger rebuild task, bigger.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Thing than we realized. Like it it's not easy. I
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: just I think rules figuring that out, it's a it takes.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: It's it's it's a bigger issue than to fix and
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: we thought. I think that's the bottom line. It's an identity.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: It's under shape up, Like it feels like it's feeling
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: like a soft reset already.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, new quarterbacks, what's happened in the last I mean
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: not Mike Riley, but it's got frost.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Same thing happens soft reset year three or four like, and.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: It went the hell like it wasn't even Yeah, that's
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: that's where it really hit. So we'll see. It's like
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be like he's supposed to build a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: program up. So yeah, all right, well you guys might
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: get sad. Yeah, ask your volleyball this Sunday. Losing five
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: fast to A and M. That's about the first I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: didn't Okay, I'm not gonna say. I watched it first
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: volleyball game on year that I've listened to and watched
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: every set or point whatever, and yeah, it sounded like
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: it was hell of a game. I don't know much
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: about volleyball, So there you go, you guys.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Go very disappointing. Honestly, I was probably more sad at
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: that game's outcome than any of the football game's outcomes
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: because it's just, you know, this was it just felt
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: like this was the year. I will say when prior
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: to the game I watched. So I watched the Louisville
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Texas A and M game Friday night waiting for our game,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: and I told Maddy, as like Texas A and m
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: is the last freaking team I want to see. I
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: just do not want to see this team because they
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: were just athletic and fast, and they made Louisville look
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: bad and I was like, we haven't. We just haven't
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: been challenged in that way this year because the big
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: team kind of had a little bit of a doubt year.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Whatever we ended up losing in five makes me sick.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Hate losing to trev Alberts.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: He was in the building, I know I did.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: I thought though, like when they were up, but then
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: game met over, I just thought of him like sitting
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: there smirking, and it made me want to punch a
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: wall because you know, that's what he was doing, was
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: sitting there in his freaking box and just like smirking
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: that they.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: It was a good year. It was a it was
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: a great year. I mean, that's just that's just how
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: tournaments go.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: You want to talk about a massive one of the massive,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: massive letdowns, I mean in the history of a lot
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: of sports.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: I mean you said good year. I mean it was
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: a historic year from a.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Just dominance, the pure dominant standpoint. And it's not it's
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: not unhurt, it's not everybody knew it like Austin's kept
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: saying it too, like it comes down comes down to
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: winning the tournament now, finishing the job, and when you're
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: that dominant, you feel like and.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: We just it was just also one of those things
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: where we just had a couple like it. This isn't
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: why we lost. But Ali shirt I never done to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: pronounce her last name, Seck. She's one of the rotation outside.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: She slipped out of volleyball right before the match and
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: was like crime and she was out for the game.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: And Berg and Riley is gonna be, you know, probably
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: the National Player of the year, a runner up. She
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: was sick all, you know, all week. It's just it
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: was just you just hate to seem like that.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Indeed, yeah, not good.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: I mean it had all the reason to be one
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: of the most historic dominant teams in the history of
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: women's sports, and that that's why it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know, price things the way it does.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: And this.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. My joke was bring John Cook back.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: At least he can make the final four. I don't
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: know it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: I'll be honest, like I'm I'm not Dax level. But
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Austin's definitely the most invested out of us three in volleyball,
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: and I am too like I'll watch them.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: Got asked a question if you had to pick one
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: win and one win only, then Abrasca basketball at Illinois
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: or the Husker volleyball win.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: I'm picking Nebraska basketball.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, but I am would have taken volleyball.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I did get posed the question of would you take
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: or how many? The question originally was would you take
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: two football championships or one basketball championship?
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Oh wow?
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: And I said I'd probably take a basketball And then
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: they're like, well, what about three football championships at one
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: basketball championship?
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Are we talking like back to back to back?
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Let's say with the five year period, maybe six year
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: period come around the basketball.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much fun you guys auld if
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: they went on to Rymewash Madison one one, Oh god, that'd.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Be say, but to only live that one year, if
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: it's two or less, I take basketball one, that is
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: just like total dominance.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: All you could be dominant for five years. That would
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: be a fun five years and basketball was one and done.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: We're also saying this right now as we just are
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: saying basically at the football program. We're all basketball like,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: we're all in the basketball mode right now.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: I know, but three championships is a lot to take football.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at three, you're at two.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Probably at three, I don't know if I want it too.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: That's where I'm at.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: We we've never lived a tournament run like I think
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: that would be the most fun.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: We haven't lived the tournament win let alone.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: True.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Wait, I haven't lived ship, but I haven't seen football
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: be good and sixty years what are we talking about?
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Basketball has never won a tournament.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Game we're talking about here, Man, don't you have crown
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: pants in your applause or something? Hunter saw run tournament run?
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: That was awesome. I will say, yeah, that was good.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, is there any other news on the
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: women's basketball front Austin.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: We are still undefeated. We haven't really been challenged yet though,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: so we'll see. We look we look good though, I
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: mean I don't think we look as good as the
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: men's team. But the women's women's basketball this year is
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting because you have I don't know, women's
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: basketball has always kind of been a front runner sport,
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: so it's just tough to crack that top five.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: We can we can say goodbye to that graphic of volleyball,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: women's basketball, and men's basketball undefeated. So they weren't that, but.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just freaking I was so pissed.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I think I felt worse after that
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: game I did any football game this year. And that's
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: just partly because of expectations myself.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: It's fine, Well, all right, well, we'll be back next Wednesday.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some more football news. Basketball plays
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: New Hampshire on Sunday, so I won't be that big
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: unless they lose, and then we'll do might do emergency
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: bad that night. But if they somehow lose that thing,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: yeah that's I'll buy running shoes. Then that's the end
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: of that. But all right, well wrap it up here
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: go big red GBR.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: I want to say Dak thank you for not mentioning
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: anything about Oklahoma after leaguing the pod.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: He's fully converted.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agree, playoff game everybody watched. I'll be in a
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma at nine o'clock. Maybe I think it's seven o'clock.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Seven o'clock.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, I know we already said in govid Grid the
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Michigan coaching stuff is wild. I want to throw this
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: in there because no one else really cares. But I
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: don't understand why Kailen de Borer gets turned around for
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: every freaking coaching open. It's so weird, so weird, like
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Alabama is the job. I don't get it, Like what
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: are we doing?
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: It's weird.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: I even heard him for us too, like when we
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: were talking about that's weird.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: My expectations. Their fans are ready to fire. I mean,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: and they're sitting there like they're pissing him right now.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: And they'll be more passed Friday night when Oklahoma goes
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: or when Alklahoma beats them at home, because they're gonna
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: kick the doors off Alabama, mark that down. They're gonna
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: win that game.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have brought it up. I should have just said, yeah,
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: here we go.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I'm I am excited for that. And it's definitely not
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock, so no one to nine. It's a got
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: to be like seven when they play, So yeah, they'll
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: be exciting. Good week of the playoffs this week and
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: they're they're not as good this year. I don't think
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not jacked up, but.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I think you're a champion.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Me give me your give me your actually give me
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: your final four, to give me your you're sorry, not
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: final four, final two, all your shots.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I see, I don't know the brackets, so I'm
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: just gonna probably say two teams up play each other.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: I would probably say I think Indiana does make it
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: to the finals. Is it big ten Homer bias to
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: say it's gonna be Ohio State Indiana the championship match.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Again, I'm not kidding. That's I was gonna say. With
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: the high stem was actually say the same thing. So yeah,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: hown you guys different. That's I mean Indiana, Ohio State.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Over Indiana.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Yep, I think I have the same.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Give me.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Signetti over Georgia.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Wow, I do look home on the final four. But
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: that's because yeah, they play Indiana next. I think, oh god,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: that that could be a blood bath. We'll figure out
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: how if it comes.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: You can't have Oklahoma in the final four, then dummy.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have the bracket. I guess I was
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: gonna pick two teams when I play each other. Actually,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that playing Indiana, I don't you
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: know what. I'll go study the bracket and see who
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: they play next.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Going to do a bracket challenge between we Yeah.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, let's let's make graphic here and well, i'll
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: h someone will throw it out the you want to
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: make you want to make it your podcast, Yeah, well
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I will make this graphic. You guys, send me your
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: picks and i'll make this and i'll make this graphic.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Send of your brackets and I'll do this all right, now,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: wrap it up, Go Big Grand and Boomer sooner g
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: v R, go Big Red.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, anything that's trick