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Enjoying the Nebrasketball Dream, Transfer Portal, Ek Gone · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory podcast Hunters are being Austin Rose Code
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  Speaker 1: Free tag is.
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  Speaker 2: Here, but on the hot seat.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a couple of been a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: since we've done a podcast. Been a busy couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska basketball keeps rolling, the whole transfer portal window has
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  Speaker 1: come and gone, and there's some coaching news to talk
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  Speaker 1: about here in the middle of January. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: off and probably talk for most of the podcast because
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  Speaker 1: all I really want to talk about and what I
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  Speaker 1: really have cared about this eighteen to oh top ten
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  Speaker 1: ranked team that.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody saw coming.
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  Speaker 1: And call us the Indiana, the basketball version of Indiana
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  Speaker 1: who just came off a national title win on on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night over Miami. I guess real quick, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the national title, thoughts on Indiana.
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  Speaker 3: Good for Indiana, college basketball or college football. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: watch it. I'd moved on. I'm not gonna lie. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I don't really care anymore. It's mid January.
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  Speaker 3: I watched NFL playoff games yesterday, NBA basketball, college basketball.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Fine absolutely saying what's thing that he's done there? I
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  Speaker 4: saw a tweet yesterday. Two years ago Gainst they played
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  Speaker 4: actoring for their opening game. Acroing took him to four
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  Speaker 4: overtimes and there was maybe twenty percent of the stadium
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  Speaker 4: was So it's I mean, it's a great turnaround and
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  Speaker 4: probably fall sports.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's impressive.
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  Speaker 3: I it's one of one, and it's going to get
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  Speaker 3: a lot of coaches fired.
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  Speaker 2: It will, and.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: And Signetti is the perfect personality to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, And you're right, it's not something that I think
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  Speaker 1: is normal, and you're going to probably see anywhere really
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  Speaker 1: for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe could be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And the closest thing that we're kind of seeing, like
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, is is Nebraska basketball. So people are starting
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  Speaker 1: to compare it to at least in our world, of
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  Speaker 1: the of what Hoiberg's done so far this year at
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  Speaker 1: at Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: And this isn't quite a you know, he's been here for.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years, but as far as the big program of
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  Speaker 1: the program in the history and the tradition and then
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  Speaker 1: the way that we're doing as far as the playing
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  Speaker 1: style and the type of things that we're doing to
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  Speaker 1: get us to win, is very very similar.
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  Speaker 2: Indiana does not have a bunch of.
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  Speaker 1: High paid, talented from a star standpoint players. Signetti developed
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  Speaker 1: the players into a system. He's built a culture around
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  Speaker 1: toughness and all of those little one liners that he
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  Speaker 1: loves to throw out there.
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  Speaker 2: And they want a national title.
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  Speaker 1: And you could say the same thing with Fred on
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  Speaker 1: the types of little things that we have done this
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  Speaker 1: year with the team, And yeah, obviously I do not
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  Speaker 1: expect us to win a national title. But right now
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  Speaker 1: we haven't lost the game yet and we are in
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  Speaker 1: the middle to late parts of January undefeated as a
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  Speaker 1: basketball program, which is just it's a dream, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a it's like unheard of people. Well, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna lose. We're gonna lose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think we will. We will last
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 4: Last week time team undefeated after last night.
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  Speaker 3: Number one of the conference alone, at the top preseason
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  Speaker 3: ranked fourteen, projected fourteen finish. Have you started training so?
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  Speaker 3: Have you started training for your half marathon? Hunter?
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  Speaker 2: I know it's bound to No, I will not run
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  Speaker 2: in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: I will be I mean wait for the official official
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  Speaker 1: results until the fall, but or until we do it.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll preay train for the one in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of accepted it that's probably going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: although God wouldn't it. It wouldn't be funny. No, it
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  Speaker 1: would be to Nebraska if we do lose as a
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  Speaker 1: two or three seed, which is which is kind of
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  Speaker 1: where we're projected right now and in several of the brackets.
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  Speaker 4: So when we made this bat, I was fully predicting,
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  Speaker 4: like in the back in my head, they're gonna be eighteen. No,
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  Speaker 4: like by this time I knew this all.
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  Speaker 3: If I remember the conversation, we were talking preseason expectations
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  Speaker 3: and you and I both started like, yeah, we'll be
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  Speaker 3: better at fourteen. By the end of it, we were
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  Speaker 3: both like, yeah, we should make the tournament. Hunter was
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  Speaker 3: a but we were. It took us a conversation to get.
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  Speaker 1: There, if I remember correctly, Like I don't know and
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  Speaker 1: back through it out there, he said, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, We're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna win a tournament game this year. That's how it went.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I went off and was just started
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  Speaker 1: laughing at him and said, yeah, right, no way, let's
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  Speaker 1: make a bet on it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how that conversation went.
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  Speaker 1: And you, you, Dak, you are a fool in most
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  Speaker 1: people's eyes when you said that, and now look where
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  Speaker 1: we're at.
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  Speaker 4: No, I did I mean this is I did not
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  Speaker 4: think they're eighteen. No, but I I did think they'd
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  Speaker 4: be like a to start season like it, well, Max
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  Speaker 4: the seventh seed. I just thought ranking masking back would
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  Speaker 4: be the which it has turned out to be the
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  Speaker 4: big thing. But all these other TRANSFERSC well, Samford coming
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  Speaker 4: in and Frank's showing up is the big difference.
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  Speaker 3: I think Price and I mean we essentially have three
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  Speaker 3: new players that are outside of Fred. I mean Price,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I mean even Fred, and I mean bar
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  Speaker 3: Kay is a new player from last year.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he means you're meaning Sam when you say Fred, right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sorry, yeah, he means Sam Hoiberg. Bear Kay is
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  Speaker 3: like got a new guy from last year, last year's
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how I described Hm last year, but
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't. There are times where I was like, holy shit,
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  Speaker 3: Bearka is like legit out there. I mean, he'll drain
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  Speaker 3: a three every once in a while, and I hate
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  Speaker 3: Hi when he shoots him, but then he'll go down
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  Speaker 3: and get a block and a rebound. And he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have the stats.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, we could go through literally player that's
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: playing significant minutes for us and talk about how they're
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  Speaker 1: outperforming their expectations, because it's true, it.
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  Speaker 2: Really is on this roster.
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  Speaker 1: I want to touch on that here. First, Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that it has anything to do with it? I
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  Speaker 1: mean this team, I laughed at the at the team
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  Speaker 1: photo is looking at us from a first gut feeling
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  Speaker 1: like this team's not going to be very good. Look
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  Speaker 1: at us, and you know you think expectation. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this team had zero expectations coming in. It's Hoiberg year seven.
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  Speaker 1: I even said it too. If we don't win a
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  Speaker 1: tournament game this year, I think French should get fired.
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  Speaker 1: Like it just we're we were at the point where
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  Speaker 1: everything was just like we've tried this, We've we've been
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  Speaker 1: down this road for seven years now, and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had some decent years in there, but we still
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  Speaker 1: can't win that.
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  Speaker 2: Like we've been down that road.
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  Speaker 1: Wal here we are, Like you think the expectation think
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  Speaker 1: factors into it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just I don't even know how to describe
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  Speaker 3: the experience. Mike. So obviously we haven't talked since. Did
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  Speaker 3: we talk about the Indiana game?
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  Speaker 1: No, because that's the one that Dack's getting fired for.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I mean Indiana. I don't know. It was
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  Speaker 3: on the road. Verdicts still out on whether they're a
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  Speaker 3: good team or not. They had that one guy who
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  Speaker 3: was on an incredible hot streak. I can't think of
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  Speaker 3: his name. But then after that game, I said in
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  Speaker 3: Texas like, man, I'd really love a Wisconsin type win
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  Speaker 3: where we just absolutely roast a team. And then we
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  Speaker 3: beat We were up by forty against Oregon, which I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Oregon's not good, but I mean they're all coached, and
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  Speaker 3: then we beat Northwestern by twenty, and as I was
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  Speaker 3: watching it, I was like, it doesn't feel like we're
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  Speaker 3: killing these guys, because there wasn't like a moment where
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  Speaker 3: it's just like, oh, we put this thing to bed.
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  Speaker 3: But we end up looking at the powal s courts
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  Speaker 3: like holy shit, we won by like twenty, like like
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  Speaker 3: it just did it just happened. It wasn't like we
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  Speaker 3: were dominating. It didn't feel like we were dominating, but
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  Speaker 3: like the final results was just I mean a twenty
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  Speaker 3: point win, which is pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: It's weird, and they they haven't got too over confident
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  Speaker 4: at all. In these games. You'd think after the Michigan
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  Speaker 4: State when they come out lose, Nope, and then and
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  Speaker 4: then I thought I thought either either Oregon Northwestern they
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  Speaker 4: slip up. Nope, they just haven't. The commentens hasn't got
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  Speaker 4: to their heads yet and they I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: long the street's gonna go. I I personally think they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna lose at Minesota. That would be the first loss.
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  Speaker 4: But it's been It's been a fun rats of party.
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  Speaker 4: You could tell they all love playing with each other,
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  Speaker 4: like and we're healthy. Yeah see that. I was saying
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  Speaker 4: that last night. Too one bad injury and this team's
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  Speaker 4: going to ship because there's no depth.
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  Speaker 1: But I disagree.
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  Speaker 3: I think we can handle and injury. It just probably
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  Speaker 3: can't be price.
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  Speaker 1: And I think going like I don't, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, obviously, four guys get hurt. Different if
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  Speaker 1: a couple of guys get hurt. I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: takes us from a where we're at to out of
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  Speaker 1: the tournament conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Like, No, I agree, we're in the tournament. If we
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  Speaker 3: win Washington Minnesota, I think we're box well.
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  Speaker 1: I I will say this week, I've seen this ass locks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean team A couple of places have started to
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  Speaker 1: lock up how they do their bracketology and us in
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  Speaker 1: Arizona or the first two there, and he's locking up.
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  Speaker 2: So I bring up the expectation conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Just as a I've said a lot with with the
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  Speaker 1: football team. I think one of the problems and issues
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  Speaker 1: at Nebraska is the unrealistic expectations that get put upon
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  Speaker 1: the players and how that gets to them and the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff and all their heads and then it gets
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  Speaker 1: into their strategy and their decision making from you know,
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  Speaker 1: a program building standpoint, but also just specifics do even
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  Speaker 1: sometimes all the way down to play calling. Like I
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  Speaker 1: think that's gone on in the football program for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time now, where just outside noise and influence. No,
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  Speaker 1: are there are the fans running the programs? No, but
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  Speaker 1: is their influence as far as what expectation level is
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  Speaker 1: getting set at the program and then is it driving potentially.
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  Speaker 2: Work effort and how hard you're working, you know, to drive.
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  Speaker 1: The the thought process of these college athletes. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: think that is one hundred percent a thing we see
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  Speaker 1: you see at the heightst level where freaking to high
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  Speaker 1: schoo some random paper as a high school ranking and
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  Speaker 1: high school girls and boys think they're really really good
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  Speaker 1: and they think they can take take the foot off
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  Speaker 1: the gas. Like that happens at all levels, and I
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  Speaker 1: think football is the biggest victim of that. At Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: The basketball team this year had zero expectations. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that Fred's done by the way I can tell
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  Speaker 1: that he talks, but then the players are talking too.
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  Speaker 1: They're ignoring all of that, like they're they're obviously participating
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  Speaker 1: in it, but they're not letting all of that get
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  Speaker 1: to their heads. The example one a of this situation
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  Speaker 1: was when we were playing against Michigan State and Fred
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  Speaker 1: talked for five minutes and said, I gotta go get
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  Speaker 1: to work, like he's not letting it consume him. The
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  Speaker 1: football program has done that, and I'm talking about rule,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: but I'm talking about all the previous coaches in the
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  Speaker 1: whole program in general. Like that's something the basketball team,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: the football team needs to learn from the basketball team
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  Speaker 1: is like, no, shut up, don't Yes, you can't control it,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot control the media and that out all of that,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: but you don't listen to it, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: ingrain your players to not do it. I don't think
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: we've done a good job of that. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a very big problem the football team. The basketball
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: team figured it out, like and part of that was
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  Speaker 1: because there was any conversation about it, they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it, and then when they started to
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  Speaker 1: become conversation, they can say Nope, like, no one believed
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  Speaker 1: in you to begin with, so why start believing now,
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  Speaker 1: And let's just keep putting our heads down and go
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  Speaker 1: to work. And that's what they're doing, and they just
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  Speaker 1: continue to win and win and win and win again,
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  Speaker 1: and games that you're like, Okay, this is the one
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna blow it. We're bound to lose. Nope, let's
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  Speaker 1: just go beat Northwestern by twenty on the road.
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  Speaker 3: I mean prior to the organ Western game two, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I still wasn't sold. You know, we beat in Indiana
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  Speaker 3: by six, Ohio State by three, Michigan State by two,
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  Speaker 3: Illinois by three at the buzzer, you know, Oklahoma, and overtime.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't like we were killing these guys. We weren't. We
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  Speaker 3: were winning, but it's like, man, we're outside of that
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin and creating game, which Creighton then kind of turned
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  Speaker 3: around to look kind of like a crappy team for
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  Speaker 3: the year. It's like I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And when you say sold, you sold on?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: Like unlike like are we an actual contender? Like I
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  Speaker 3: mean like I was sold that we were going to
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  Speaker 3: make the tournament. But it's like, you know, is this
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  Speaker 3: like a you know, a team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the level of the teams making the tournament, winning
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  Speaker 1: a tournament game, I'll just say making the sweet sixteen?
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  Speaker 2: Like when I say sold, what are you?
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  Speaker 3: Where's your sweet sixteen? Or more like like, are we
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  Speaker 3: like a real contender in the college basketball landscape, not
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  Speaker 3: just Nebraska best one of the best teams in Nebraska history.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's like, oh okay, Like people are like like
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  Speaker 3: this team can actually like make a tournament run, not
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  Speaker 3: like a run like I still don't think we're good
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  Speaker 3: enough to win it, but I mean Perdue lost. Michigan lost.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people, Michigan looked like the absolute you know
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  Speaker 3: bear in college basketball there where they were winning every
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  Speaker 3: game by thirty and then all of a sudden they look,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: you know, a little more human, where their their margin
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  Speaker 3: of victory gets a little smaller when they got into
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  Speaker 3: Big Ten play. But I just I and actively. They
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  Speaker 3: when we're up by forty against Organ, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, we might be like good good like
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  Speaker 3: not like not like an easy schedule product and a
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: couple of close wins or we're scrapping with people that
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: anyone's like, I don't know, we could we could do something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That that Organ game also sold for me because
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  Speaker 4: that first half, which is something else that they've kind
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  Speaker 4: of struggled or kind of need to work on a
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  Speaker 4: little bits first as a little bit slower, but then
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  Speaker 4: that second half they just completely dominated Organ. They're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're not gonna We're not gonna fuck around anymore here.
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  Speaker 4: This is this game's over. But the other part of
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  Speaker 4: this I think is gonna be crazy is I think Cale,
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  Speaker 4: if Kale starts scoring like he he has been shooting
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  Speaker 4: better off the bench, has been shooting better off they
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: just need they seed him off the bench. If he
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: can get a good five to eight points off the bench,
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  Speaker 4: I think they will they are top five team in
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  Speaker 4: my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Then well, like I mean, Frager is really blown up
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of games where it's like, oh wait, crap,
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  Speaker 3: this dude can't miss.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he and some of the dun't, he throws down
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  Speaker 4: to I did not know he's athletic. No one.
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  Speaker 1: The dunks have been kind of fun, yeah, Dak, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that. No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that Cale needs to score five day points.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a necessity. I think Cale knows
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  Speaker 1: his role. His role is not to score eight to
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  Speaker 1: ten points.
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  Speaker 2: That's not his role.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if I was an opposing team, I would make
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  Speaker 1: Kal Jacobson or ten plus points to beat you. But
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: but but if if if we're good enough not to
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  Speaker 1: let that happen, which so far we have. But I don't,
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  Speaker 1: there's no reason to do that. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's a kale Go out there and we need
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  Speaker 1: to score. I don't think that's true. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we want him to unless teams are literally not guarding
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  Speaker 1: him and they're kind of starting to do that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But like it has not affected us so far,
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  Speaker 1: and so I don't think we need to be telling
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  Speaker 1: kale Go score ten points because not that's not his role.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny. I could I also mentioned, like I do,
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  Speaker 3: I thought going into the Organ game, at some point,
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  Speaker 3: We're just gonna have a game where it's just we.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: We're gonna miss converse, agons offense, off the bench, where
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: it's just and then you know, Brandon Frager kind of
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: took over and became the three point shooter that everyone
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: saw it coming obviously. But you know, you talked about
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  Speaker 3: our death, but I I would say, you know, an
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: injury at the top would be bad, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: I said price and the rank, but you look at
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  Speaker 3: our depth and if you put out Kale Jared, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Brandon out there as our three depth, our next three
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: depth play pieces Like, I don't that's pretty good always. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, have you guys heard anything
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: about Ugi. I don't think he's gonna play this year, but.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't think they need him.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I don't think, yeah, yeah, he's kind of a break
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: glass in case.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: But I think he's I think he is kind of
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: still there, maybe not one hundred percent, but still around
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: to where we need him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: We can type of deal. Yeah.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't know. I'm feeling pretty good. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: know we're gonna lose a game. I know we're gonna
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: lose a game. I keep telling myself that so my
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: heart's not broken when it happens.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: But so I pulled up something here. If you're watching
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: on YouTube, and I'm gonna show a few things here
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that I guess I like to look at that I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: think are fun, they're they're very data number driven. Right now,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: let me ask you, guys, if you had to say, yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I'm giving you three hundred dollars and if you get
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: it right, you get to keep the money. If not,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you got to give it back. What seed are we
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: gonna be in the tournament?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: It's a two top five, so hard.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Come come the end of you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: If we're gonna be a seed?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: What seedar a we're gonna be? I mean, it's it'd
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: be boring to take a your same pick. So I'm
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: gonna say one seed.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go like a four seed, just if I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: had to throw something out there. But anyways, so why
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I say that? So there's obviously a billion different bracket
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: stuff out there now. The one I'm showing and sharing
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: now it's probably really small on everybody else's screen, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it's it's a bracketmatrix dot com. So what it does
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and this is updated as of yesterday. It's usually a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: daily update. It takes everybody's predictions out there, and I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: think it's I don't even know how many there are
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: eighty four brackets out there, so finds everything on the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: internet and whenever they're updated, they update them on here
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and it puts in what seedgr then it takes a
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: big average. Obviously, when you're looking to get into the tournament,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it tells you how many have you in the tournament,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: so you scroll down then you can kind of see
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: where everybody lands. So right now, out of all the brackets,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: it's an Nerasque is averaging just under a two seed
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: one point nine three. There's quite a few that have
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: us as a one. There are a couple that still
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: have US as a three seed, but overall we're sitting
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: at a two seed for the tournament here. I'm not
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: sure if you guys have seen this, but I always
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: think it's kind of cool to see where other teams
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: are coming in at. You know, Michigan is a one
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: seed right now. This is updated of yesterday. Uh with
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the two seed being so they have their hot you're
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: high and you're low to kind of highlighted. I think
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: It kind of just a cool thing to look at
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: right now. It's really fun to look at when you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: when you see us in that two seed line, so
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you kind of saw us creep up there. The other
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: one that I like to look at a lot.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Is this update for you guys. Go to a different page.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, team rankings, yep.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I like look at team rankings a lot, which is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: one of them actually on that bracket matrix. But it
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: has some good information on here. So what this does
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: is you can look at our schedule and then when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you want to look at there's two things I look
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: at a lot the projections on here. So what the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: projections do. It takes our schedule, It kind of projects
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: out the rest of the year for you. So right now,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it's got us estimated at basically twenty six and five,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit better than that for the regular season.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: It's got us losing between four and five conference still,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: uh fourteen percent chance to win the conference. Then it
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: goes through some odds there and then I.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Mean, I think twice six and five. I was thinking
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: when I was talking about this at work, I said,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: twenty seven and four. To me, that's pretty close to
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: what i'd expect.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Well, the Big n's also not as strong as it
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: has been the past.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Like maybe I don't know. The analytic darlings love Illinois,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: they love Michigan State and they love Michigan.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Outside of those two though, there's not much.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, last thing and then they do and they did
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it for the whole schedule here. So after the right
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you can see our toughest remaining games and easiest games.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: So when you're when you start looking at you know
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: who we're playing out to look as okay, should we
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: win this game?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Like, what are our odds percentage chance to win? It's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: similar to like the ESPN whatever when you look at
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the you click on the ESPN for the football game
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and you see we have a fotball power yeah, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it's it's similar to that where you can just see, okay,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: this is the chances that this.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Website gives you to win with your games out.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: So now that there's not as many games left, you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: can see like Washington tonight, when we play them at home,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: we have an eighty point five percent chance of beating
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: them according to team rankings here. So that's what our
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: fifth thesiest game. Obviously, your home games are more likely
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to win than road games. Your Michigan game coming up
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: here is twelve point two percent chance of winning on
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the road. So that's I mean that to me feels
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: about right. It'd be kind of cool to win that one,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: but it feels about right. So and lastly, what you
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: can look at here is like a big bracketology thing.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So they got your odds to make the tournament right now,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: we're at one hundred percent.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: We're a lock.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Uh at large bid versus automatic bid, you're most likely
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: seed here. We've we're up to a two now on here,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: which every time I check it we've been at a three,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: so we've slid down to that two line. Then it
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: kind of goes through each round here then too. So
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: as far as my bet with Dak, this is the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: number I've been looking at to make the round of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: sixty four, which we're pretty we're a lock there, But
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to make the round of thirty two, that would be
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: winning a tournament game.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: We have a ninety point five percent chance.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Of winning God of Ringing Half Marathon right now.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yep, that's what Dak's got right now.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So God's about a fifty to fifty chance of making
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen, so and then there's some other metrics
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: down here, so I think that those are kind of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: fun to watch and just see. These have been pretty accurate,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I would say overall, from as far as making the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: tournament goes past few years now when it comes to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: what seed we're going to get?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Who knows.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Last thing here that Austin. I'm not going to go
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: through all this stuff because it's very very data driven.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: But if you are very data driven and want to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: look at it, it's J T h.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Oh M J Tom Analytics. Uh, there's there's some cool
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: things on here.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: They just show just some different odds and projections for
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: seeds and stuff like that. And over time, I like
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the overtime stuff to show like where we've been from
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a seeding standpoint or getting into the tournament. So anyway,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: some good stuff, some good data stuff, some tools.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: There for you. Yeah, Austin, the same of the other day.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: My brain about blew up.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I hope that, Yeah, this is a cool little like
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: how it tells you, you know, here's a number of
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: games we think you needed to hit to be a
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: lock for the tournament, and these are your teams that
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: you're most likely to win it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: On. I thought that was a good visual, but.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you go.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I just had a moment when
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: it gets to Oregon where I just I don't know.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I want you to explain yourself as a as a.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Fan here the Indiana game, you decided not to watch
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it because you decided to take a nap during it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I was not very happy. I mean, it's not that's
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: not being a really good fan.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I had my birthday birthday party then I before Yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I was invited to to my next one as I'm
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: another one. Okay, I don't know if I should put
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: this out there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, but I didn't go.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Hunter deeven go anyway, I was hungover. I
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: sent an alarm look up for the line. I was like,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: no shot, and I was like, I'm watching highlights afterwards. Yeah,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: and that's why I did.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Now I know, come back. I'm just saying, if.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You your fandom not just with the Nebraska basketball but
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: with all of your teams, I did you just you
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: just don't know how to be a true fan.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: What. Okay, I end up watching every single play the
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Huskers had, though.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not I don't you did not watch it live?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You didn't watch it when it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Was going on.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say too much because Austin's watched a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: lot of games on tape delay Indiana.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: I did watch the first half, and then I had
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: to go do something, so I recorded the second half.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Oh I did, but I didn't. I didn't know we won,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: but I knew something crazy happened because my phono was
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: going nuts. But was like, I can't read any messages
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: until I went back.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I will say that's how Austin kind of lives his life.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I mean that he has very much been outspoken about that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Will admit to it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a I'm a little more accustomed to Austin being.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Do you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: On the other hand, I wasn't hungover taking a nap
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: being productive.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Was sh.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I just I just don't. I just I don't know.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: You gotta do a little better, Dak.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I think I was this. I was pissed when I
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: woke up and saw what happened. I was like, God damn.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: So then okay, how about this instead watching NFL?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Your story is not adding up because earlier you just
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: said he woke up and said not happening and went
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: back to bed for your alarm. And now you're saying
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you didn't wake up for your alarm happened.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: No, I did wake up for my alarm. This would happened.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: And I woke up and saw what happened on the
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: game on ESPN app I was like, well, I should
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: have woke up for that game. Great game, but here's
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: what I chose to watch, Husker highlights over didn't watch
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the NFL playoff game. Watch Husker highlights instead for the
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: first part of over a random NFL game. Congrats, it
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: was a playoff game, Panthers rams. If anyone's wondering, unbelievable,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I forgive you, thank you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I still just think you're the biggest fraud fan of
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: every team that you are. There's nothing, there's nothing that's
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: proven me that you're not.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, fine, I'll say it now. Celtics are gonna win
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: it all and J. J. McCarthy's the best, gonna be
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: the best best quarterback in the league next year.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: They Again, it means nothing to me because you're a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: fan of both of those teams too.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: You you admitted to me that the Celtics are one
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: team that I actually do follow.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't even watch them. The other night
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: they're playing somebody, and you went to bed at halftime.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: No one watches NBA games, Hunter, that's just.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: A I'm not I'm not an NBA fan either. I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: don't really have a team. I admit that Dak just
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: thinks he's the biggest fan, but then he goes to bed.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: If you were a fan of the Celtics, you would
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: not miss a game if you were.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to watch all eighty two? Why not?
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: That's that's crazy. I'm not going to cancel planes on
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: like a random Wednesday night to go to They say
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: I got to watch Celtic games, a big game, like
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: a random hornet Celtics game.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie I would. I would do that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: for every Nebraska football game.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: There's only twelve of them.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: That's different. That's different.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I watched every Nebraska basketball game.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: That's still different. There's eighty two of these.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm not.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: That's why I don't claim to be an NBA fan,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: but I do. Okay, let's move on to football here.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Unt's you guys got any other basketball conversation? I mean
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I have got more, but we better move on.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: What before we head off of what game? What's their
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: first loss? I have Minnesota.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're right, we should talk about we should talk
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: about the upcoming week because the next two weeks are
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: going to be the the make or break because we
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: played Minnesota at home away, which I think is hard,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Michigan away, Illinois at home, and then I don't.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I don't have much of you guys. Got I just
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I think we're not going to be Michigan.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think you're right. I think
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: we'll get to Michigan and will probably lose.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have Minnesota, which I am't moroving they're gonna
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: do yet looking ahead or are getting too hype yet,
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: but I think they'll be looking ahead of the Michigan
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: games in Minnesota.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: They might be looking out, you know, ahead of Minnesota
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: at home to no joke, that's it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Good to save your save yourself on this podcast. Please
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: update us on the wind in sports in Nebraska.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: So here we go. But if there's fifteen women that
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: are listening to this podcast, there is a new sport
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: that nebrasai at. It's black football, and I'm guessing am
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: up in tryouts. I don't think they're recruiting for this
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: yet they might be who knows, but all the women
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: that listen this podcasts, go try out for this team
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: because because you probably have elgibillity left, so go go
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: play flight football for the women.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: It sounded like they were they're starting to hire a
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: coach here in the next couple of weeks and then
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: they'll heavily recruit. But the first season is until twenty
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: twenty eight.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: So where where are they playing these games at?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I imagine they're probably gonna play Oh, that's a good question.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: It's in the spring. I doubt they play Memorial though.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Well they probably will. Yeah, no, they won't. That's way
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: too big of a venue. They'll probably play on the
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: soccer field. That like Hibner Stadium would be my guess,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: because the that'd be my guess. I mean the men would.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: We don't have a men's team and the women only
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: play in the fall for soccer.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: So yeah, one other thing, Dak, I mean, I'm going
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going to at least no see that, I'll go.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: I will go to one flag football game this year,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: that's for sure.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: You will. Yep, they don't play twenty twenty eight.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Good luck? Okay, Well, not this year. So next I
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: bet they'll do.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Some sort of something at the spring game, like the
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: halftime exhibition or something for school to announce a women's
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: playing football team. Oh good on.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: DAK.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: So do the man have to add it sports in
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: or they they let's.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Stop talking about women's flag football.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: One other women's sport.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Dakkay women's college basketball?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, well yeah, updates, Okay.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I have no idea. Okay, they almost beat Michigan State.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: That's all tough.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Close loss to Michigan State, got blown up u c
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: l A. They've lost four now once they entered Big
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: ten play, they've only won two. They've gone two of six,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: so a little bit of a tough start to Big
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: ten play. We're still ranked, but that I'll go away
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: here soon.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Britt Prince is very is very good. That's all good.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: That's the best player on the team. And preseason softball
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: number nine. So Jerdy Ball's return to the mound. Hopefully
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: it goes.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Well this scene.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Every sheet thinks they have a shot of winning at
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: all this year, that's all I know.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: When I feel that was a preseason number nine, you
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: should feel.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: That way, you should, Yeah, all right, transfer portal.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Let's dive into it, which ended I believe the sixteenth,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: seventeenth of January here, so it's been closed for a
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: few days. So it's over and it's opening back up
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: until another year from now, I guess under the current.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Rules then, I don't know how that works. So Kenneth Williams,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I did he announce where he transferred to? I yeah, okay,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I must have missed that.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there are a few guys right now that
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: are still unannounced. I'm not quite yet, quite sure how
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: that works. But currently we have sixteen guys incoming. There
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: are seventeen guys out going in the portals, so from
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a number standpoint, pretty much a wash.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: But we can kind of go through here position by position.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I don't I'm probably not going to go into all
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the detailed names outside.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Of the the big one here at the quarterback, but
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: we'll start there. Danny Kleon and Dylan Royola out.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Danny Kalen's back, sorry, Danny kaln back.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: The other other quarterback, Davilla is who I was thinking
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: it out there, the Royola and de Villa out, Danny
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Kaylen and Clandria Anthony Landria in.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Probably a net loss.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: So I was I was talking to my coworker yesterday
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: and he's his friend, lives right next to Danny Kleen
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: and he is back in on roll out just because
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: he thinks Danny Caalen is gonna start and like be
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: a super star here that guy. If you're listening, you're
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: completely wrong. That's not gonna happen. Whatever drugs you're taking,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I want those because that's that's crazy.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Overall, it's the net loss. It's surprising that Dylan committed
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: to Oregon because he's gonna he's gonna sit. He took
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the money to sit for a year rather than play
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: for Nebrasko.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: So I don't know the time my pants will be back.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: If he knew Dante, I don't know if.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: He is going to be sitting. I like it maybe, but.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: You spend a year in the system before and then
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: you come out. Think it's a really good for him.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's a smart move on Dylan's I not
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that he decided to do it, but I think it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: it'll be really good for him to sit back and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: watch for a year. As far as his future for
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: his dreams, I'm sure of playing in the NFL. I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: think it will help him.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: But that's what Dante Moore did and it worked out
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: pretty well for him.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: A lot of these quarterbacks have done that a move,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: so I think it's smart for him.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I think it's a good year to heal and get confident.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I think it came to a point that they knew
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: it would not work. I say, they both Rule and
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: staff and then Dylan and family.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I love the I love the leaks. Now you know
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: the it wasn't you know, really didn't leave us. It
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: was it was Rule. Actually, you know, I was like,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: get out of here. Whatever breakup story. It's like, well, actually,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: you know it was a mutual breakup. We you know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: she didn't break up with me. We both were you know.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay, whatever, get out of here.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: We really never got a statement or anything from Royal
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: or not that we deserve one. It is what it is.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Like.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I think that Royal is a pretty good quarterback. I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: don't think he was a good fit here for for
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: multiple reasons. And we're moving up and we bringing Anthony
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Calandria from un LB.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Your type of QBAT? What your type of QB?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm excited for if I can the
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: type of QB. But I'm not like thrilled that he's
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: our quarterback next year, Like I'm not. I guess I'm
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: not thrilled about anything really with this football team. So
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that's probably where everything's at, which maybe is good. No expectations.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Can you tell yourself that you keep telling you to
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: tell myself.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: It's kind of sad to see which this is this
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: a pump hunter out there is how many fans that
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: talk to you just be like yeah, really out of
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: rule life. It just feels like it's it's over for
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: him already before the scenes even started, Like he's got it, He's.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Got to the seats warm.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's stay, let's stay on the portal talk here.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: We'll get the coaches here in a second.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I mean Callandry. I think is a spark potentially that'll
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: give us a.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Hope. I think that's what where what the program needs.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: He wasn't the top quarterback portal person to get here.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: But we've had the top portal quarterback person before.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Has it worked?
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Like has worked?
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: And when we say top based off of who like.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Right out of the three that I heard that were left,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: uh Way Chiles and him, I think he's the best
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: out of those three that they were going to after.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Of course that's what you think. It's it's it's the best,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: best one.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think before you knew Calandri got I don't know.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I guess my point saying that is is he's I
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: don't know, he's got some mobility to him, he's got
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: some gamer to him. He's got some.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: To him, which for good or for bad, that is
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of a similar thing of what
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: basketball went through, where we've seen these older teams who
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: answer in proven guys from smaller conferences. You know, we're
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: seeing that in football now, and that's what Indiana did.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: And I mean, he wasn't Mountain West Offensive Player of
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: the Year. So he has produced at a higher level
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: and always gonna be. But you feel better about it
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: that there's some actual production there.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: And and here's the thing with him is we're not
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: gonna hear like Latif. With Latif, like, this guy's quick,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: he can back, he can run around, do all this stuff,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: he can slander, can actually move, He's he's a good runner.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe we said that with Latif too, didn't we At
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: one point yeah, but Lati CALANDRAA, yeah, Calandra, there's actual
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: footage out there, like at the college latif at footage,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: not the college level.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: And yeah, exactly, not the college level when you're running
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: up against other high school kids.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know there's an argument. I mean, yeah, Austin,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: he made the points Mountain West at It's it's not
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: big ten, it's not power five. And that's where I'm like,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like maybe it could look good.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: You know, I think your offensive lineman and the and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the types.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Of players you're running around at U n LV is
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: different than than power five level.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I think that's a big, big conversation.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And your your offensive line and and all of that
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: is still a ginormous factor when it comes to.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Any quarterback, no matter what kind of quarterback you are.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: So you've just seen you've seen this one work before.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: You've seen it where these guys who do really well
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: at a different level move up and then it trans
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: translates a little more onto the field than those unknown
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: high school players.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've also seen that work too.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: So I think you've seen five star quarterbacks like Dylan
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Ryol at work.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: He is not he's not afraid of any pass to
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: throw out there. So there's gonna be some wow, there's
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of wild throws, and there's gonna be there's
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: gonna be some bad picks too. Like he's a gunslinger,
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: he's not afraid to throw it. So I don't know.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I just I mean, if I had to pick a type, yeah,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: you hit, I think you hit the type the prototype
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: of a quarterback that I think helps and fits in Nebraska.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: But as far as what actually gets produced, I don't know.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that is going to
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: come down to the offensive line. And I kind of said,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: that's the only big thing that will really get me
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: excited or jacked up.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: So let's let's hear about this offensive line transfer. Portal
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: of the class.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Paul mcba the transfer from LSU.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: We got Brendan Black from Iowa State Tree, Bob A.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Lade I've heard in names. That's a great offensive lineman names. Yeah,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: he's from South Carolina. Those are the big three that
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: are coming in. And then obviously the guys that have stayed,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: uh and I'm from from the current roster for those
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: are the big three that we brought.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: In in the portal.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Okay like my thought. My thought is I don't know
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: what I expected, like out of any offensive lineman portal
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: guys like that I would go nuts about.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I think it's good that we brought guys in and
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: it's good.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: To get guys who have like I mean again power
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: for starting experience.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yep, Like, I think that's good. I'm not going to
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: be thrilled about him until we see him play probably
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: our fourth game of the year because our first three
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: year Cup gigs. So it's one of those things that
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm glad we got guys. I mean,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: that's number one most important. We could have gotten none,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: and that really would have I think, set rule packing.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: But we got three guys, So I mean, I think
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: that that's good. We'll see how they are.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I I don't know.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: That's that's my thought on them.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I felt good about the class because you don't
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: need seven, but to get three guys who have started
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: called them started more than ten games, so I felt
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: pretty good.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of I'm not going in with
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: like last year, I think we're all hyped up by
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: of these recruits. Are these transport offense line coming? It
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: just proved it for me, I don't there's no expectations
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: on the line because because pressure will probably start too.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Don't you think he'll be those Yeah? Yeah, he definitely
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: will come back.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I saw some stuff on the projected offensive behind people
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: saying this group looks fire.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: I'm like, and okay, well that's that's crazy.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: But I mean, are the projecting these three Pritchard and
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: then Justin Evan Jenkins said the the starting five that
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: they're projecting. Do you think these guys are already going
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: to be three of the starters?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think I don't remember exactly who
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: it was, but I think they didn't think that that's true.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: So Hm, which which a year for pretty sure, I
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: think is gonna be a huge man.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: I I mean, the big get in the offensive room
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: is getting Donnie out and Jeep weight in. That's the
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: that's the biggest offseason offensive line move.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver. Other offensive guy Quasi Gilmour from U c
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: l A committing and I think he'll probably play a lot,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I would guess with with Dame Key graduating, and you know,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Good that we retained Cory and Isaiah Hunter.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, those guys are they're solid like I don't
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: think they're and I don't think Quasi either.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: Is a is a.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith type break breakout player. But I think they're
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: they're solid receivers. It's anything else on the offensive side
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: that you guys can.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Think good.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: It's good to see that is I mean, obviously then
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: what our positions needs are, but it's reaffirming that we're
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: also seeing the same thing they're seeing. That we need quarterbacks,
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: a offensive lineman, and maybe get one ride receiver to
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: replace dan Key's production.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we also thought when we went
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: through our needs, we batt listed every position. We did
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: not We did not bring in a running back. Just
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: throw that out there. We are developing in house. So defensively,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: defensive line, I think was the conversation right O line
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and D line, defensive lineman. We brought in the Sheer
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Whittington from Pittsburgh. We brought in edge rusher Anthony Jones
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: from UCLA.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: We brought in defensive.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Lineman Owen Stoudemier from Boston College.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: I believe we had that guy from I A Western
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: who then decommitted after committee, and.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Yep, there's that guy.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I think the same story goes for a lot of
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: these guys also run out the defense. Here just seeing
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Shiggs from say Towson, Yeah, that says Tewson. Safety Will
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Hawthorne from Iowa State, linebacker one of our first commits,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Dexter Foster from Oregon State, Owen Shambliss from San Diego State,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: and Victor Evans from Florida International.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: I think some of these guys are gonna be playing.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, here, here's the thing with the portal. A
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: lot of these guys you're bringing in to play, right,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: You're not bringing in are you're bringing in to develop?
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: People aren't leading the portal to develop. They're coming to
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: try to get some minutes. And I think a lot
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: of these guys are going to play minutes. And that
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: that's not just Nebraska, that's everywhere. Uh And because if
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: they were to, if they were to be a development player,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: I'll guess what they probably chanced. They are leaving transferring
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: the next year. So it's just it's just not very
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: common to transfer and develop.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: It will see.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: There's obviously a whole rabbit hole of conversations on the
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: defensive side that we go down with our new coordinator
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and everything there, so again, we got new people in here.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: The problem that I have with the current program at rule.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: As he has not identified talent well at all from
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: a coach and and and I listened to Saban the
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: other day before the National Championship. You listen to Signette like,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: they don't read into stars, they don't talk about recruiting
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: savings at the best. He's like, why are we listening
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: to people that aren't coaches that throw a number or
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a rating or a star on somebody that don't even
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: coach football. He said, it's ridiculous that that's such a
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: big thing, but it is.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: That's just part of it.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Now, so so then that's something you can take that
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: comment and go, yeah, great, So our recruiting classes are
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: very good. Next year transfer portal, you know you see
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: three stars. Oh that's okay, we'll be fine. Well, the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: problem is Rules not identified talent well at all, even
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: with stars. So like, I don't know, it just there's
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: not much there to get excited about in my mind.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: But well, I guess we'll see come spring.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, the only thing to I don't know if
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: it's worth yet. But as far as actual key players
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: who we lost, obviously we lost, Dylan Keona Davis, Malcolm
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: hard Talk, didn't play hardly at all last year. Kenneth
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Williams probably the biggest loss the off season if you
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: exclude Ylan Riola. So I mean, whether that's good or bad,
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: I mean we.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: Were Yeah, it's five team, But I was gonna say
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: it's that good or bad. They didn't lose a lot,
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: because that means a lot of these players think they're
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: going to play a game, and I don't just talent wise,
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: it's the good. The good part about the line is
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: I don't think it can get any worse than it
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: was last year. That was horandous.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you're not wrong. I think the good sign
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: is is that Rule hasn't lost the locker room yet,
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: because if he has already lost the locker room, then
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: it's the were cooked.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, fire ship, everyone's gone. Yeah.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: But to your point, maybe that's a bad thing if
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: they're not very good.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We were the youngest team in the
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Big Ten last year.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: I think the biggest keep, which we're talking about defense now,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: but the biggest keep of all of them wasn't Isaiah.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: I'm really high on him.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was really good. We'll see I have a
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: good offensive line, gotta have a good defensive line. We
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: brought in potentially six starters for both those.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: So yeah, well it feels like a lot, feels like
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: everything just like there's which I eventually picked up. It
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: always does, but there's just no who lay drinking so
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: far in the seed got it like, yeah it might.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: I I don't know.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: It's not going through like normal years. I don't think.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: I really don't.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: As far as the picking up of the hype and hope,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I think that that was a challenge. We knew it
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: was going to be a challenge with how the year
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: ended last year. And then it's not like you can
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: look at it like that going into this year, right,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: you can look at the schedule and go, oh yeah,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: like look at this guy five pre season.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Top twenty five teams on our schedule.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Next year, you're gonna look at that and not be
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: It's again, this could be okay and good because we're
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: setting the expectation. The bar so low.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: I just the bar. You say that we're sitting an expectation,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: but you know, we come out and we it's like, well,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: we don't have an expectation, and we come out and
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: we win, we go four and one, and you then
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: you lose it. Like you say that there's no expectation,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: but there is. You you expect that there is.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: But ask ask thee to what Dak's point is. I mean,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the casual fan. Ask the casual fan
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: how many games we're gonna win next year? No one,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: no one is going to say nine or ten.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're still gonna be pissed when we don't.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: That's the thing.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, I would I wouldn't say pissed. I think people
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: are going to be not pissed at the season itself.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: They're going to be mad at him as a whole
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: that the program isn't at nine or ten.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think at the season.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: If you're isolating everything out of the out of, out
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: of going into this next year, people would not be
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: pissed if they did not win nine or ten games.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: They're just upset the whole program as a whole.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know to say there's no expectations, I
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: don't think it's true, because if he doesn't win eight games,
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: people are going to be fire him.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: But if they're truly expectation, say hype. Maybe Dak's talking
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: about the expectations good.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: I think a seven five year next year I'll feel
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: lot different than this year. Seven five this year was rough.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you at least had dillaner will get hurt. So
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: there's like a little bit of a okay, well.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: But that's what sucks.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: I mean that, you're right.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I think seven and five next year would tell me
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: right now on June twenty first, seven and five, I'm
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: going probably had a.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Year that means me be everyone that we should have been.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: That sucks. That sucks like that shouldn't be the case
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: That's the problem is that you shouldn't be saying that.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: But I don't think anybody would be surprising us at
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: a six and six year next year, right that. That's yeah,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: like like that, But where do you draw the line
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: and stop on on? The program's not in a good spot,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: and you know that's the conversation. Last piece of conversation
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: here to go along with all of this. Officially announced
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: yesterday that Mike Eckler is going to USC Yeah.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: We kind of saw this when Kenneth Williams entered the portal.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, so I think this is a pretty
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: big deal. Now we've all, mean all of us have
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: been big Eckler guys. A lot of the Husker national
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: media people are brushing it off like it's I mean,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: it's a big deal, but they're not making it a
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: big deal type of thing, like from the vibes I've
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: been hearing some of your podcasts. Like us, the people
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: that are a little bit more or less credentialed and
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: publicized are taking I think more of the stance of it.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: It's a big deal.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: I this is not good.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: You know, at the highest of levels.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: He was the biggest hey in the Special Teams unit,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: was the biggest bright side of this team last year.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: And say it from what it was. He came in
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: and took something that was basically destroyed, so it couldn't
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: have got worse, but made it into a very serviceable
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: and i'd say strong unit.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: Now, was it.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Absolutely excellent all twelve games, No, but it was. It
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: was a solid eight eight out of ten, I would say,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: in most aspects. And we even said it won us
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: two games early in the year. Special Teams itself won
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: us two games that we haven't in the past, and
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: that was thanks to Mike Eckler and his knowledge of
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: special teams.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: The caveat that I'll throw in here and then I'll
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: let you guys run with it. It sounds like he
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: wanted to be a position coach.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Potentially, I haven't really heard, but that's pretty much the
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: vibes is that with Rob Arch coming in as defensive
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: coordinator and kind of during all that, Eckler coached the edges.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: You know, he has a background of coaching positions, the linebackers,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: you know a while ago, kind of wanted to take
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: that next step and basically wasn't allowed to do so
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: because it's crazy if Arch full autonomy and his staff,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: which he didn't do with John Butler and kind of
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: pushed upon some coaches there with John Butler, which obviously
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: didn't work out either, So gave Arch full full freedom.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Arch wanted to bring his own guys, did not want
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: to retain Eckler. Eckler said, all right, well then I'm gone.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: At the same time, Eckler wasn't hired here to do
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: a position coach. It's tired to be our special teams coach.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: So that's where the well, if you want to do more,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: that's not what we hired you here for On the
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: flip side of that, I think he's.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: A damn good football coach, not special teams coach.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: And man, keep that guy here anyway, I think you can.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: And that's my thought. Just weird dynamic.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: I don't. It is just strange.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: It's not good.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: It is not good.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: We're all will our special teams fall back to pre
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Echler level?
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: God? I hope not.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: That is a loss.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: I really hope we learned something from him and we
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: can retain pieces of it.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: Was he the juice or did he teach the Jews?
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I sent a text after once Kenneth enter the portal,
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: I kind of I was like, Okay, you know, he's
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: probably gone, and then this in conduction. You didn't mention
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: it yet. But the defensive line coach did get hired.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: I can't think of his name or where he was.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: He was like at Miami of Ohio. Maybe I don't
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: remember where he was coaching prior.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I think it's so wide.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: But the fact that we we drug our we didn't
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: drag our feet.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: The rumor was we were waiting to hire a D coach,
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: D line coach from a team was still in the playoffs,
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: but then we ended up hiring a guy from you know, Maction,
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: the MAC Conference. I think I can't remember exactly where
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: he coached, but is of that level of conference. After basically,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: you know, two months of looking for a D line coach,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: it just didn't feel good. Is just I'm not saying
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: I'm not a Hunter level of I'm out un rule,
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: But I did say it's like I could I could
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: see the seat warming this. Those are just two fouam
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: wins on the coaching staff. Now, if he comes out
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: and you know, Bobby leads their defense and he's a stud,
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: it's like, okay, well maybe and Jeep weight or offensive
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: hans better. You know, it might have been a wash.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Those two things that happening in the off late in
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: the off season don't does not feel good to me
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: at all.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm getting on the side of Hunter, like I'm
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: out of rules. Especially is at Eckler loss. You you
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: got to find anyone to keep that guy. Like if
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: he says you want to coach linebacker, who gets let
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: me coach linebackers. I don't care as much as he did.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: That was the only position group that we all came
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: out of here like, Okay, wow, they improved there the
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: special teams, and to let that guy go I think
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: is just crazy. Now. Now, maybe he really wanted to
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: go to the USC and he's like, I'm leaving, but
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: who knows. And also there's one more strike I wanted
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: to talk about later on that kissed me off at him.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: But we'll say that for the end. It's about the
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: spring game. Go ahead, all right, Rule you dumb, you idiot?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Why are you having the springing on March twenty eighth.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be like twenty degrees. This is for me personally,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: but there's gonna it's I loved it. When it's middle
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: of April. I'm glad to bring it back. Okay, that's
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: March twenty eighth. It's still gonna be freezing cold that day.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: It's gonna suck that.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know. It was like seventy degrees on Christmas.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want to clip dack saying rule you dumb
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: idiot and just get that blasted everywhere.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: That. I'm glad to bring it back because that is
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: a fun day.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: But in the middle of April, Eckler did leave for
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: US theater and the coldest week of the year. So
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: if southern California is calling your name and it's like,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: you know, six degrees out in the morning, it's like,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe this is the right call, uh
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: as as.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: We're just talking here, and it goes to a conversation
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: of hyper expectations or whatever it is. Jackson, who's been
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: on the podcast a few times, said, just said, what
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: else can we do for fall or for fun in
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: the fall? I've never been so turned off just interested
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: in the Braska football in my life.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: I'm so sad, like bs that man's watching every game.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think you guys, are I only Austin.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I like the level of this is coming from, like
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: diehard fans will watch.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: Every game because we're fans, is what we do.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: But but but there's there's levels and there's scales of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: it all. It's yeah, it is, it is very this
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I'll like, I'll say it, like, have I been excited
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: to do this freaking podcast? The last talk about football?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: And the podcast absolutely not, Like there's just not a
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: lot of it's not and I don't enjoy it's not
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: fun anymore. And and the word I guess that start
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: bringing it around is apathy, like it just don't care
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: as much anymore. Are we gonna watch the games, Yes,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: but as far as the level of interest and investment
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: and time and and no, people are just gonna stop caring.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: This is coming from very passionate fans. Think about the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: casual fans.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: Oh they're out, yeah, and when and when you.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Say out, it's not that they dislike the team, it's
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: just they don't care anymore. Again, I put it on
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: a different level. My brother is a is a great
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: example of He enjoys Husker football like he enjoys going
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: to the games. He has the past fifteen years. But
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: it's funny over the last fifteen years, how now I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: see him how he'd used it doesn't really care like
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: he just see he's he's he.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: On a Saturday. Is he trying to like put his
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: invest his whole day around it.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 6: No, he's not.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Would did he ten years ago?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: Part it was?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: It just now it's just eh, it's on. I just
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: that's an example of how people are just becoming like, eh,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: like whatever, I'm not we will never well that Osco
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Austin watches on tape record now you didn't used to
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: do that, so we know how datake. So uh, it
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: just it's one of those things. It just people are
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: gonna see more apathy towards Husk football going into this
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: year and now to the point about why are basketball
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: team is so good? Apathy helped them win.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: There's there's but you can't. Apathy is not something you
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: can say I don't if you if you verbally say
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care about hus your football, you still care.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Apathy is like the concept of you don't care because
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: you're like you're not even talking about it. You're not
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: you're not pissed off about it, you're not emotional towards it.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: You're just like not talking about it. Like that's what
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: apathy is. The fact that we're talking about it shows
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: that we still care. But that's kind of what that's
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: rapathy is you just don't care anymore. If you're pissed off,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: it's not you don't have apathy.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're if you're if you're commenting about
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: it weekly with people, and yep, piss that you're not,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: you're not apathetic. Apathetic is truly like you can't say
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: you're being apathetic.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, just let mister Weeks know. There's plenty
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: of nice things to do in the fall. The weather's beautiful,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: get outside, go for some walks in nature. There's tons
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: of you know, activities. There's all these fairs and fall festivals.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: Plenty of things to do on the weekend.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I'll tell them to reach out to Austin.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: We can hang out.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: Here's here's the thing is as soon as ashames it's
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: usually I don't know what you guys is. I'm like, God,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: can't wait for the next gosketball season? Now, just like.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: That, that's you what Austin's at the top of this podcast.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't care about the end of the just that
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: it's now.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: I did say that, but after our Bowl loss, I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: told Eddie is like, I'm ready to be hurt again
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: next year. That is exactly what I said.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: Now, Now it could be that we all I think
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: the Mastadon has a lot to do things. And then
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: we had back too Worldar two instead of just waiting
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: a football start a lot.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: I don't really care about the overall college football landscape.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: I will say that I love Nebraska football. I'll pay it,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: would you in Nebraska football. Yes, the same reason why
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: I have not paid attention to the top ten basketball's
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: teams for a long time. But now I'm like, oh shit,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: I was State lost to this week. I wouldn't have
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: cared before, but I was.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't. I kind of went through there Austin
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: like I wasn't like jacked up for the title game
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: this year. I didn't or even playoff games like I
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: wasn't too invested.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: Well, they weren't great games either. I mean, Indiana actually
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: freaking cooked everyone, so that doesn't help either.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: But and yeah, that that could be a lot to
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: do with the Huskers just aren't relevant. Really, Okay, last.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: Thing, I know, we're about to leave, but I forgot
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: as the basketball point, what a great season to not
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: be a Jaysker. I mean, all those jass trying to
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: come over. I hate out of here. I get if
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: we if we make it to the final four, it's like, sure,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: I'll let you be, Like I hope Nebraska. I don't
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: want to hear a lock of it until in the tournament.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: It's great because you live in Omaha, and like I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: used to, it's funny down here. You're kind of like
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: oblivious to it all like, because we're not around there,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: but you're pre you're paying around more people. Oh man,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't see I see a little bit on social media.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: I think those people are just the worst people in
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: the world.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: So I'm you know, I I ultimately have the sentiment of, yeah,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: if you're from Omaha, you know the creating blue Jays
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: only have a basketball team. Okay, maybe, but if you're
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: coming over to Nebraska basketball and the Blue Jays are bad, no,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: get out uninterested. Try again next year.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: A lot of a lot of greaton fans that are
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: jumping over now with Austin.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Why are they?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: No? Do you know a lot of people that are.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, I know a lot that are actively paying attention
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: to Nebraska's rankings. I don't know a ton. I mean,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: I can't say I hang out with that many Jayskers
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: because I you know, they try to pick my company. Well,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: but you know they're they're watching Nebraska basketball games, which
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: I don't think they ever did in the past.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: All right, if they're listening, you're not welcome here, all right, Well,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: be back next week hopefully.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Nebraska is an eleven and a half point favorite tonight
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: eight pm Central Time against Washington.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: Let's move to nineteen to oh over here gbrttrack.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 4: And ting a