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Episode 6.42: Dog Days of January · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast, Sona Sharberniki here to start off
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  Speaker 1: the top of the episode. It's been a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks actually, since we've last been on air.
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  Speaker 1: Wife's got up with us here in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I'm including here for our last episode. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: Husker basketball. I'm a lot of recruiting news as always,
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  Speaker 1: and in college football playoff NFL playoff reaction coming your way,
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  Speaker 1: Dakota Free tag Austin Rose with the duo episode on
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  Speaker 1: their own. Then you'll hear back from me at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Return to Glory Podcast, Austin Rose, Dakota for Ta Hunter's
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  Speaker 2: Arminiki is probably adding a little bit to the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of this podcast. He, from my understanding for the text mester, Jack,
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  Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong, was super upset that he
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  Speaker 2: lost a high school girls basketball game. Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that's what I picked up on. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's just like not removed to pod.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sad that we lost, which you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you're coaching, I get it. Yeah, it's he didn't give
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  Speaker 2: any context outside off we lost a basketball game, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like all right. Cool.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to find the score, couldn't find it, So
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what what happened there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I haven't even think, not too It must have
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  Speaker 2: been rough. But yeah, so it is just you us
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  Speaker 2: for now. Hunter will add some comment. I've commentary at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the end of this, to my understanding.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been a while, Dak, how's it going. You
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  Speaker 2: lost your phone? We were talking about that beforehand. He
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  Speaker 2: got a new number.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's one of the main reasons why we
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  Speaker 4: went had a podcast in a while.
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  Speaker 3: There isn't.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's one of the reasons. One of the
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  Speaker 4: other one is Nebraska basketball. We just don't want to
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  Speaker 4: talk about them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we just.
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  Speaker 5: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: So our last pod was before the.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa game, right, yes, I believe so.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so because we because we were supposed to meet,
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  Speaker 6: we were gonna talk about the Purdue game, but then
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  Speaker 6: we got destroyed, like like f it, we're not gonna
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  Speaker 6: talk today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't have a phone, so I couldn't the
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  Speaker 3: next week.
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  Speaker 2: I think you lost your phone, yep.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, so Purdue was the last game before that.
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  Speaker 4: You can you're gonna have to get the context on
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  Speaker 4: that one. I all I thought from it because I
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  Speaker 4: didn't even know was on TV, was that Purdue just
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  Speaker 4: shot the lights out basically on in that game.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, So yeah, so it's been a while, let's
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  Speaker 2: go through it. So we lost to Iowan overtime. We
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  Speaker 2: beat UCLA number fifteen, Ucla by ten at home or
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  Speaker 2: eight eight at home, felt pretty good. We go to Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: we go on a nine to oh run to close
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  Speaker 2: the game basically to send it to over two time.
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  Speaker 2: We lose in overtime by ten. Then we roll in
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  Speaker 2: to Purdue and get absolutely thumped, I mean thirty six
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  Speaker 2: point loss, and yeah, it's just pretty shot lights out.
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  Speaker 2: Then we roll into Rutgers. We have a decent lead
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  Speaker 2: early on and then it's pretty much competitive back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: We lose to Rutgers by three at home, rare pinnacle loss.
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  Speaker 2: Then we go to Maryland, we lose to Maryland by three.
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  Speaker 2: We come back home, lose to usc by five, get
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  Speaker 2: thumped by Wisconsin yesterday. So we've lost six in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Fred Hoiberg seats warming up pretty much. If I had
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  Speaker 2: to describe what's happening as we were struggling with the
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  Speaker 2: with just big ten athleticism, and our biggest issue is
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  Speaker 2: we can our defensive scheme is good enough to hold
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  Speaker 2: up against the larger post players, but if the other
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  Speaker 2: team is shooting well, we're terrible at the kicking pop
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  Speaker 2: like the driving kicks, yep. And if they're hitting those shots,
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  Speaker 2: we're just soled like that is that's basically the correct
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  Speaker 2: But I think I saw somewhere that forty four in
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  Speaker 2: our losses, our opponents are shooting forty four percent from three,
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  Speaker 2: and our wins they're shooting twenty seven percent from three
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. So we knew our offense was
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a problem. It's just when your offense is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a problem, your defense can't have a liability
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  Speaker 2: like three point shooting. And it's been real.
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  Speaker 4: Rough, and it's what we said at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 4: What the problem was gonna be was if you don't
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  Speaker 4: have your two stars playing nice out Jawan and Bryce, yep,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna be a problem with And for a while
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  Speaker 4: there you got other guys stepping up like a siege
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  Speaker 4: in you can tell has just fallen off, has just
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  Speaker 4: fallen off the map, Like it's like none of your
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  Speaker 4: other players. And honestly, Bryce Williams is playing awful too,
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  Speaker 4: that's the thing. Yes, Like he's he's the main one,
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  Speaker 4: which teams are probably teams just locking him up.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I think that's part of it. I think just defensively,
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  Speaker 2: teams are locking in on Bryce Williams.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's not like he's like an absolute superstar either,
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  Speaker 4: Like I don't.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 4: Basically it's it's boom or bust with those two if
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  Speaker 4: you don't have because Jaman has been playing good, it's
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  Speaker 4: just been Brax Williamson's done anything. So everyone else has
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  Speaker 4: done nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, now your other Morgan, you do have, you.
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  Speaker 4: Do have some real players step and that Morgan has
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  Speaker 4: played well in this stretch. He's about the only only
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  Speaker 4: one though the season is still shooting well.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, those other guys are.
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  Speaker 2: A while bat like they're just everyone's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: too streaky and we're not good enough team talent wise
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  Speaker 2: to be streaky. Yeah, Like we need everyone to be
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  Speaker 2: doing well, and it's just it has not worked out
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  Speaker 2: and we're I I don't know if I agree with
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  Speaker 2: the discourse on we have to fire Fred Hoiberg. He's
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  Speaker 2: a poser. This is Scott Frost Energy, because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're right there. You look at four of those games
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  Speaker 2: we one we lost in overtime, the other two we
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  Speaker 2: lost by five or fewer points. Like, it's not like
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  Speaker 2: we're getting killed. I mean, we got killed by Purdue,
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  Speaker 2: but Purdue is also a really good team.
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  Speaker 3: And and honestly, I look at this way, what what
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  Speaker 3: was the expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Coming in the year, Like I think, and you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the expectations were. I think before the season
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  Speaker 2: started most of us had us as a bubble team
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  Speaker 2: at best. I don't know if anyone was like, this
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  Speaker 2: team's gonna make the tourney.
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  Speaker 4: The reason the reason why people are freaking out so
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  Speaker 4: much right now is because of that hot start.
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  Speaker 2: You had, right we started what twelve and two.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve yeah, yeah, twelve and two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And one of our last field.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Barry, is in the tournament game where we lost
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  Speaker 2: by threes. Like it's just yeah, you.
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  Speaker 4: So so the reason why I went to ask freaking
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  Speaker 4: is because of how hot you started there, and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 4: this team, this team is the tournament team.
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  Speaker 3: And I started okay.
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  Speaker 4: I I never really knew for sure or thought Nebraska
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  Speaker 4: was that good this year. Until that UCLA game, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, holy craft, they might actually be good.
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  Speaker 2: I agree that was I think that's also part of
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  Speaker 2: it is just timing. Is we beat UCLA, we beat Creighton,
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  Speaker 2: and we beat uclup for that twelve win, and then
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  Speaker 2: we roll into Iowa on the road we lose an overtime.
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  Speaker 2: We were like okay, like we just had a big
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  Speaker 2: victory at home, we losen overtime on the road. Like
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  Speaker 2: we started out against Rutgers were looking good and then
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  Speaker 2: it just the wheels fell off.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, and I and I don't know what you're thinking about.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's completely falling off now, Like I.
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  Speaker 2: Think, oh, I think this season we're not making the tournament. No,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it would require just an absolute tearor of
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  Speaker 2: we beat you know, eighteen milling awis sixteen organ we
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  Speaker 2: basically have I don't want to say we have to
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  Speaker 2: win out, but we see how many games we have
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  Speaker 2: left one, two, three, four, five, six.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's that's the fun part is you got three
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  Speaker 3: straight ranked right here, so.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I think we have twelve more games, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we have to go eight and three probably
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  Speaker 2: to have a home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get shit.
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  Speaker 2: They're just a team.
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: The main there's one main problem with Toy Work is,
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  Speaker 4: and it's been it's been ever since you got here,
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  Speaker 4: is you cannot win on the road at all, especially
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  Speaker 4: come Big ten play. It's like on the road, it's
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  Speaker 4: just completely different. And it's usually just an ass kicking
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  Speaker 4: on the road too, Like none of these games have
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  Speaker 4: been it's like yesterday, yesterday Wisconsin. What they start down
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  Speaker 4: nineteen to two? Yeah, yeah, you can't. You can't come
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  Speaker 4: out expecting to win a game when you're down with
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  Speaker 4: that much. Again, it's a good team like them.
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  Speaker 2: And we lost by twenty eight, So wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: It.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't battle back though, tied it up. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe maybe I got something. Took any note
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  Speaker 4: that that turn quick.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't have that. They don't have the guy that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, they have spurts, but they're just so inconsistent.
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  Speaker 2: Their cold streaks are so cold. Yeah, you can go
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  Speaker 2: seven minutes a game without scoring and it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is normal.
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  Speaker 4: That's That's another thing about Work is like last year,
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  Speaker 4: even last year, they had these scoring droughts that just
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  Speaker 4: kill you every game. It's like yeah, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: six seven minutes, you go out of basket easy.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, and he's not.
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  Speaker 4: His his philosophy's been basically got the team every year
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  Speaker 4: and bringing these transfers, which last year worked. But you
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  Speaker 4: can't you can't keep losing all these players, like these
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  Speaker 4: good players like C. J.
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  Speaker 3: Wilcher. I guess is when he lost last year.
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  Speaker 4: But but then people forget he also lost rank mass
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  Speaker 4: when of your best right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you feel a little better because our offense,
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  Speaker 2: we we were looking for that true point guard and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we we still don't have a
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  Speaker 2: point guard.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling me, isn't it us?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it? I mean Bryce Williams leads the team with
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  Speaker 2: assists with two and a half. Oh no, sorry, Robley
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  Speaker 2: Worster leads the team with three assists, just under three assists.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know what you think about it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not big on Wooster beginning of years. Like on this
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  Speaker 4: guy's okay, I think he's not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's that good from the field of
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  Speaker 2: twenty four percent from three like it's like, cool, we
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  Speaker 2: have you out there. You can't shoot a freaking point.
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  Speaker 2: You can only get his three assists in twenty minutes
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  Speaker 2: a game, twenty five minutes a game, Like, what do
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  Speaker 2: you mean if you're not passing the ball, you're not
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  Speaker 2: great on defense and you are great at shooting.
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  Speaker 3: And that's so. So I think Koriberg's finally figuring that out.
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  Speaker 4: He's he's trying to do anything by switch the lineups up,
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  Speaker 4: find anything for the point. I think your point guard
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  Speaker 4: position is the main problem right now. You have nobody
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  Speaker 4: that can lead this team. And Bryce is not Bryce
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  Speaker 4: is not true point guard either. He's he's more out there.
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  Speaker 2: He's a shooting guard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a shooting guard. Well, when you don't have
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  Speaker 4: a point guard that can score, that really puts the
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  Speaker 4: burden on him then.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so he has to score and pick up the
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  Speaker 2: defensive assignment and assist.
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  Speaker 4: With with the whole team trying to lock it like
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  Speaker 4: basically go five on one.
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  Speaker 3: At some points, it's like, I don't know, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: which which us was the one?
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  Speaker 4: I thought when they started him, I thought he was
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  Speaker 4: gonna be okay at point guard. And boy, he has
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  Speaker 4: done nothing.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean he had against Iowa, he had a
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  Speaker 2: real moment. But yeah, I mean he's shooting twenty percent
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  Speaker 2: from three thirty five percent from the field. He's only
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  Speaker 2: playing fourteen minutes a game, less than one assist a game,
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  Speaker 2: less than I mean, he's only a few point six
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  Speaker 2: assist a game.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's almos. He's almost unplayable.
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  Speaker 2: He's almost unplayable because he can't even hit free throws.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you're a freaking point guard. That's the one
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  Speaker 2: thing point guards needed. It's like you have to be
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  Speaker 2: able to pass the ball and hit your free throws.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: So outlook on the rest of the season. You look
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  Speaker 2: at the schedule. We've lost six in a row. I
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  Speaker 2: suspect will probably lose another two. So it's probably gonna
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  Speaker 2: be eight in a row, and the Knife's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: in the team. And I think the color cooked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Illinois Illinois to that's tomorrow, right, Yep, it's at
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  Speaker 3: Illinois Illinois. I own tomorrow. That's that's the one for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Season's over there is that?
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  Speaker 4: Like, that's your own only hope when that game at
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  Speaker 4: home somehow and maybe maybe turn something around.
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  Speaker 3: But got.
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 3: Are you out of Whitburg?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I think Nebraska has a basketball program
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  Speaker 2: and has so much it has to do. And last
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  Speaker 2: year was real progress and the start to this year
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  Speaker 2: was real progress. And like I said, we've lost four
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  Speaker 2: of the six games there were all were right there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so I don't I don't think I'm out
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  Speaker 2: on them yet. If we end the year sub five hundred,
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  Speaker 2: probably a different tune. But I'll give them the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the year to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's the thing is who who you can bring
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  Speaker 3: that's better, Like.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's someone out there, there is there are
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  Speaker 2: better coaches out there. It was just you'd have to
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  Speaker 2: take a chance on someone and you're starting for one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's different than the football team, like you'll get
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  Speaker 4: this got time, but it's it's getting the point where
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  Speaker 4: it's like either you got to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Now or of course it's not getting figured out.
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  Speaker 4: No, And that's and you're losing everybody after this season. Two,
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  Speaker 4: You're you're losing Joan and Bryce.
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  Speaker 2: And uh Rank will be back.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he could jump ship.
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  Speaker 2: But let's see who our seniors are. Rawley is a senior, Bryce,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Andrew Morgan, braxt and me Rank and Juan So
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  Speaker 2: of players who are actually I mean, beer k and
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  Speaker 2: Connor season are really the only two Sam Oiberg. We
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  Speaker 2: have those three that be contributors right now.
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  Speaker 3: And boy, that's that's no super team right there.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you no, that is rough.
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  Speaker 4: But then so then you look at players that leave you,
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  Speaker 4: like C. J. Wilchri would have been like your number
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  Speaker 4: three this year for sure. You look at the A
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  Speaker 4: and M. He's playing like five minutes a game. I
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  Speaker 4: was looking at his stats the other day. He's not
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  Speaker 4: playing at all. It's like, how good are these players
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  Speaker 4: you actually have?
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  Speaker 2: Right when they go to other teams and they don't
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  Speaker 2: even crack like the second string lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and C. J. Walter might have been your best
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  Speaker 4: player on the team this year for for sure.
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  Speaker 5: There So, I don't know, it's it's tough, all right,
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  Speaker 5: enough sad talk, let's talk.
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  Speaker 2: We have not talked since they I don't know if
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: we talked after the semifinals go to college football playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: which we're both I'm trying to remember how they shook
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  Speaker 2: out o Hi of State killed.
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  Speaker 3: High State beat Texas. Thank god, that's last second, last second.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. And then Notre Dame got killed
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  Speaker 2: by Dame, Penn State, Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: There we go, which I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how the house they did. After the
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  Speaker 4: Michigan game, I was completely out of them. But man,
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  Speaker 4: this whole playoffs easily the best team in the nation, like.
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  Speaker 3: Like they proved it. I mean, you gott think the world.
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  Speaker 3: They went down.
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee, so they beat Tennessee, Bearegon killed Orgon. They killed
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  Speaker 4: both of those teams, and I thought I picked them
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: both both games. I picked them to lose those games.
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  Speaker 4: And then so then they killed Oregon Texas movement X.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they it did come down towards the end
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  Speaker 4: against Texas, but I thought they controlled that.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like they control that whole game.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: And and then you then you go tale game. Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State freaking kills another Dame basically another game. Another game
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: came down toward last second whatever, but they control that
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  Speaker 4: whole game there too, So I don't. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: there was any doubt that Hio State was the best
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  Speaker 4: team in the nation.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean the only doubt you have, I yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the only doubt you really have is like, well,
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  Speaker 2: Oregon beat them, but then they killed Oregon again. Yeah,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you know, in a third matchup, does Oregon win again?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Do they do they win? I feel alright with it.
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  Speaker 2: My big complaint is, honestly, I had moved on from
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: college football by the time the playoffs. By the championship game,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I honestly forgot it was happening. There was like, I'm
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: NFL playoffs are on. I don't care, Like.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: See that's the that's that's.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: That's one thing about these playoffs is they pushed that
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: title game way too.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Far back and everybody.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: It felt like everybody forgot, like there was no hype
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: going in this game. I didn't hear anything about it. No, honestly,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I'm with you, and that I kind of forgot. I
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: was on until I turn on TVs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: ESPN was trying their best by having like Ryan Day
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: and Marcus Freeman on all the time, but I was like,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I don't care, man, I'm not that could be a product.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I I just you know, it's not Nebraska football, and
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I just didn't care that much. But the games hadn't
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: been that compelling up until that point, and I really
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: didn't think it was gonna be that compelling because do you,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you really think Notre Dame was the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: second best team in the country.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: No, but the playoffs shook out that, like I know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: and that's how and I get it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: That's how it works.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: You played Georgia the back quarterback.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: It's like, right, I.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: So going into these these playoffs, I was pumped about this,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: this twelve team playoff the first week, and then it's
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: slowly died down as it got farther into I feel
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: like like my height four like.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Right, because you watch the same team's play which it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: how regular playoffs work. But it's like I don't care
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to watch Ohio State four times in a row.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I really know, like the.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: NFL is probably it's a little bit different because it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: not and that maybe I'm wrong, but I don't really
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: have a team that root for in the NFL particularly,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I have teams are rooted against, but it's like, oh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you like, I'll watch and most of the games are
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: usually good, outside of the Washington Commanders Eagles game, which
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: we can be later. But it's like I don't want
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to watch Ohio State's roster, who they have probably the
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: most expensive roster in college football. I don't want to
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: watch from four times in a row. But that's just me.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: It's uh, I feel like that the championship game too,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Like a lot of people don't like a housing in
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: their dame.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: That's that's true. That's true. They aren't likable fan bases.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: No, no one's no one's dying to go watching their
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Dame football I.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Field outside of people from Notre Dame.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: And they're just they're just not there. Weren't an exciting
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: team like.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Well because they don't. They didn't play like really any
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: big games.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: No, no, they so so that's that's the only thing.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: The playoffs is no Dame, which I don't know if
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: it'll start changing people's scheduling, is no Dame went this
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: whole season, didn't really play anybody.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: In the playoffs outside but they they won in the playoffs.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe who who was their second game? I cannot
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: think who was?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe Indiana Georgia.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Georgia, Yep, that's okay, Georgia with back quarterback, which we
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: all kind.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Of thought Indiana was maybe a bit above punching above
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: their weight class this year. But you look at the
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: regular season, it's like they beat number twenty two Army
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: lost in Northern Illinois, Boston Northern Illinois.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Now another way you can look at it is how
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the hell did Nebraska hang in with the house. They
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: should have beat them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: That's National Channel.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: That's when I'm looking back on it, You're like, how
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: what happened? Again?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Ohio State still lost to Michigan, but yeah, two weeks before.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you see all these like they have they freaking
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Jeremiah smith and Will Howard. Yeah, all out of States
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: offense was at the end there was just the very
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: last player this season just chuck up to Jeremy Smithy
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: somewhere down there, like and don't catch it. It's like
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: it's like we're was that against Thebraskan against Michigan?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, they probably just tried to have an
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: offense and they're like, we don't need an offense. We
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: have the best player on the field.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Here you go. No, and and Nebraska should have beat them.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It's like, I know, yeah, well Nebraska is a knack
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: for f any ways not to beat people.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah they yeah, they and they tried. They tried their
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: hardest that game. They more, did they? They?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: What is your opinion? I guess so you know, one
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: us to talk about discoursing around playoff format. You know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the ACC came out and said maybe they won't their
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: best team, the regular season champion won't play in their
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: championship game. It will be between their number two and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: number three seed. Really, I did not see that that
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the commissioners came out and said that they might they're
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: considering doing that because then they're the regular season champion,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: doesn't risk losing, and then their two and three seed
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: has a chance to buff their resume. If someone was
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: making the argument that, yeah, what happens when a team
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: opts out of their championship game. Yeah because Ohio State
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: didn't play a championship game. Yeah game didn't play a
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: championship game.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: And it's.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna get to the point where, like
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I said, teams are gonna just getting not scheduling very hard,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: just sneaking the playoffs, and then from there you don't
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: know what happened like Dame.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Now, I do think.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's the first year ever they're gonna change
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: it up, like in my aready happen next year?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I do think. I do think that you need to
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: change up the way it's seeding.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You can't have Boise State as a four seed and
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: then the three seed Arizona State, which they hung with Texas.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I will give them that, but I feel like you
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: need to rank it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Actually going into like the top twelve teams just completely
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: scraped the scrap the championship format all that just right
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: right when you get on on twelve you rank them
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: from there?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think the reason that they have
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: that is to incentivize the championship weekend. Yeah, that's why.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: It's like you have to care about your championship game.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: But now it's like, well, if you give rid.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Of by do I care which which, Like you said,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I think teams will will will opt out?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I do too.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I like that there's no point of and say your
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: organ playing that game this year?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: How long before they just completely stop doing conference championship games.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: It's you're you're gonna have a team opt out here
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: pretty soon, like with the next two years, and then
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: that's that's can change everything.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: It's like it's like why why play this game?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: So say you're say you're Ohio State, say your organ,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: you know, like why would I play this game? Or
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Penn State even.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Like injuries, yeah, injuries and all that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: It's like I'm gonna be in the top twelve. Why
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: play this game? So like for Ohio State or Oregon
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: where it's like, well we had to freaking play each
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: other anyways, it didn't matter.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: So back to Notre Dame is they didn't play a
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Commers title game, so they were in no matter what.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: But then you have a game with Clempton SMU where
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: basically winner winner goes basically as how it was, but
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: end up being both teams got in. But I don't know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: State, you know, if Arizona State didn't win Big twelve,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know, if they make the championship.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Yahay and say there was no title game, then they
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: would have been no matter what.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It's like great. I don't know. I think I'm fine
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: with it. Current format. It's never gonna be perfect. We're
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: always gonna have to watch a lot of extra football,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: which I should be complaining about. But like I said,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: four weeks of watching Ohio State and Notre Dame was
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: See that's that's going in the playoffs like this just
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: canna be awesome, a lot a lot more football everything,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: And towards the.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: End, I was like, Okay, this is too much.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: It's that part of this is also because the NFL
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: was like it's like in their playoffs. They're in their playoffs.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: It's like, I don't care about this anymore. This is
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: more exciting now.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: But and it's I think the transfer portal too, is
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: kind of killing.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm going to see any of those Like.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Liple Howard's done. He's like he has one moment there.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: It's like.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Now it's national team, but I don't know. Yeah, none,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: none of those players in the house. Like jami As Smith,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: he's out. Everybody's gone.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Like uh, I feel like college has to fix it
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: to where it's harder to know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Now who's on a team that's playing going into it
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: unless you're like a diro exual Wall fan, like you
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: have no idea whos.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Which I do. Think that's why I like watching NFL better,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: is like ye, these players, like I know who's playing,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: and I know who's catching the ball. I'm not panicking.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you know, you know what players and they're
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: gonna be back next year too. In the NFL, like yeah,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: you're not worried about your.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Players leaving, Like.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Honestly, back to back to rest for a second, it's
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: like it was like almost it's almost surprising when a
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: person like Royali stays, yeah, you you just expect everybody
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: that had a good year is just gonna dip all
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the money.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, I'm surprised, like Ja Cory Barney didn't go.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's college is a lot to fix, and I
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: think Portal's number one.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I think the problem is they're gonna keep expanding the
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: playoffs because it's how much money it brings in until
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: which I guess I do like more football. I will
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: say it's the first round sucked. It was absolutely terrible,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: which has to do with the fact that should teams
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: like if sm you've been in Indiana, like, I don't know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: it's what do.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: You do though, when a team like Indiana they lost
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: two games is Ohio State and noted they only lose
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: one game all year they off to Ohio State or Ohio.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: State, Yeah, didn't have played a conference cut game. See,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: that's that's what I'm too. Then easy scheduled. They just
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: rolled that all the way to the end.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Make the playoffs.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: That's that's that's what I think teams are eventually going
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: to do, which you can't do that with your conference.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I get it, but to an extent you Yeah, I mean,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: now the conferences are getting bigger.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: It makes you almost to not want to be in
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: a conference. Basically, go go nor Dane Brown. Just schedule
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: your own teams skates and make the playoffs.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I guess Indiana did beat Michigan. It did beat Michigan.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Outside of that, their next best win might have been
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Nebraska Nebraska.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It's it'll be interesting to see
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: if they keep it at YEP twelve. Going from this
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: point on.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk football briefly before we hang up.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: We got five more minutes. Well, I don't know about you,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: but I'm not super excited to watch Eagles Chiefs.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I'm not either, not one bit. I cannot stand Eagles fans.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know you're you're not an Eagles fan.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I can't stand either man.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't the Chiefs are Okay, I guess I
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: don't really have it Eagles fans, though, I just can't.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: They were ready to fire Cerea Audio last year after
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: thirteen and four or something.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: It just feels like it's kind of college to like,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: what could that's now? Don't be anything pumped up. We
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: saw this movie before two years ago.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: The Eagles are gonna lead and Patrick Mahomes is gonna
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: play a bad game up until the last drive and
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: then there's gonna win.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Yep. That's I mean, that's the way it's been.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I was rooting for Bills and then obviously Commanders because
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I I just wanted some new bollol on the Super Bowl.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: That's all I really wanted.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: And yeah, we can, we can get into that. I guess,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: do you is he ever gonna be able to beat
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: the Chiefs?
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: And definitely the Chiefs will have a down year?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: You think I do.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I think They've gotten relatively lucky on the defensive side
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: with who they've been able to draft, and at some
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: point they're gonna lose talent and they're not gonna They're
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: just not. They're gonna lose enough talent in the organization
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: that it's gonna be harder to fill back in. And
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid's old, I mean, he's not gonna be there
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: ten more years.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Well, that's that's one thing people don't think about Chiefs
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: is the defense. That's that's what carries that a year.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, Mahmes has not been like the stellar
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: quarterback this year.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: No.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I mean if you look at his season stats, like
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: only pull it up like it's.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Not great, it's middle of the road top. I mean,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: he's been top ten quarterback. He's obviously somebody you want.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: You would take him on your team in a second.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: But it's just like, yes, such downs, eleven interceptions and
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: he had under four thousand yards. Yeah completion.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: It's like yesterday, you're your defense. He was that win
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: for you. Send the blitz, yep, get Josh.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: But the thing with Mahomes is he always will make
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: to play at the end to win you the game,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: like that third nine.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Yep, you know it's gonna happen.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: We also didn't yeah, I mean there was the the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Texans game. We didn't talk about the Texans game. That
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: one was rough, go ahead, whatever. It's fine, it's what
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the NFL wants. The NFL can have it. Just get
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the Bengals back in the playoffs. And the AFC is
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: just absolutely freaking loaded with Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: and Patrick Mahomes, with the occasional you know CJ. Stroud
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: or Justin Herbert.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Now there's it's it's a big time par right now.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: The refs, the rest of the Chiefs, what do you.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I mean the fourth down spot for the Bills yesterday terrible.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: That's terrible. That was awful.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not a hundred pent Sure he got that,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: but but for that Reft to come in and be like, yeah,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: there's no there's no doubt, like on the spot guy there,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: he's he marked him like a half got short of
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: even where he was like, I don't know.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Come in and be like, yeah, no, that guy's short.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's the refs are as bad as
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: what people are like saying for the Chiefs like they're not.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: It's it's glorified right now because everybody's watching that, every
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: single car.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I agree with that, but I also enjoy it because
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I don't like the Chiefs.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, I hate him too. I'm Vikings fan. God, God,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: wish I was just one.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Pull anything else for me to say, there's no here, so.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Not they can think of not knocked out my head
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: right now. I guess tomorrow Hoscars need to win.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: They do. I agree badly. Oh, go for it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Basically seasoner go home tomorrow.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: That's true, I say, quick, lady Lady basketball, shout out
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: the lady Huskers doing pretty well. The boy lost four games,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: five games, and it was to number four, number one,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: number twelve, and number seventeen, and we lost by six
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: yesterday number twelve, half pay. So feeling pretty good. All right,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: A couple more weeks we'll be back. But until then,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: GBR go big red Wow. I'm just here to make
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you do it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Return to Glory Podcast, Hunter Zarbniki here back. Thanks Da
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Coda Austin for your duo episode. A little bit different
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: here as we've been a few weeks off from updating
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you on all the recent Husker news, a lot of
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: it not necessarily positive when it comes to husk Er basketball,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: so I.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Have not listened.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I did not tune in to Dax and Austin's analysis
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and breakdown of the three topics that I gave him.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give my own here and we'll see
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and compare how much we matched up. So first topic
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: is Nebraska basketball that I'll go with and start off
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: on a little bit of a goal note. We've lost
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: five or six in a row now and the road
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: woes continue for Fred Hoiberg and this basketball team. We
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: drop a home game past two rote home games to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Rutgers and USC and things aren't looking good right now.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Forget the tournament. Let's just see if we can make
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten Conference tournament. At this point as we
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: sit second to last in the Big Ten standings, Here's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: to me what it comes down to with this team.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: How much fight, how much passion, how much care do
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: they have to get back in the conversation at least
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to the middle of the Big Ten. This team did
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that last year in really good fashion to end the year,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: and it got the an NCAA Tournament birth this year,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: when adversity strikes, we have seen this team shut down
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a lot, and especially on the road when.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Things aren't going our way.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Early Purdue and then most recently we saw Michigan State
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: earlier and then on the road at Maryland. We just
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: don't seem to have much fight in this left and
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: that's a problem. It doesn't make for fun basketball to watch.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: It is not something that you want to tune into.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: And that's after the start that we had and we're
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: pretty much I'm not going to say a lock, but
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of people had us in their tournament, fifty
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: nine of sixty of the brackets out there. If you
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: would have talked to us on the first of the year,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: we were in We're not now. And here's why this
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: is troublesome for this team. Our defense is based on hustle, effort, grit.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It's very schematic. It's not as much scouting base. Now,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: there's obviously scouting components in there, but you got to
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: play hard with all these rotations and no middle type
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of concept. There's not a whole lot of teams do it.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: And when it works UCLA game, for example, it looks
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: pretty damn good, and there's times that it is very
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. But when you are playing hard, when
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: there's a little sense of doubt and you're not playing
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: together as a group as a team, it does not work.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: We give up a ton of threes. That's a known fact.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: We give up the most threes as a percentage of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the total opposing team's points in the country. It is
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: not it's not a hidden fact. But that comes to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: rotations and making the extra efforts on the defensive side
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: of the ball, and when other teams are making shots
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and you get deflated as a defensive unit, it can
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: be very frustrating. That's where things are at now.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: The question is on the defensive side of the ball,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and we take a step forward in that extra, second, third,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: fourth effort category to keep us in games. And I'm
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: saying keep us in games right now because as we've
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: seen on the road, it's been ugly. So that's the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. I mean, it's almost a
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: fact of how much do we really want it? And
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: under Hoiberg the last couple of years anyways, that hasn't
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: been the issue. Now go back to two, three, four
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: years ago under Fred. This is similar effort and motivation
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: that we've seen of you know what it is, what
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it is, we don't care, and the score reflects that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: On the offensive end, we are all over the place
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: right now. A couple of puzzling things that come to mind.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, Connor season is our spark. As far as
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: shooting threes, he's still not in the starting lineup. I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: understand that maybe there's some physicality or why ability issues
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, but let's be real,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: he is the guy that can knock down shots for
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: this team. Bryce Williams has been Mia the past few games.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: He had his breakout was top two or three in
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten in scoring, and that has fallen off.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Teams have started to key in and take away his
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: mid range jumper, which was a very big strength of
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: his game. And right now I don't know what we
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: have for an inside presence. I mean, Andrew Morgan has
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: now been scouted very heavily and people know what he
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: can do. Braxton Mia has never really been an offensive threat,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: and Bark has yet to turn the tables as far
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: as the offensive side of the ball. We're not getting
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: much production out of our point guards. In fact, last
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: game we didn't even start Aaron Nullis or Raley Wooster.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: We just are seeming to lack an identity once again
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: under a Fred Hoiberg team. And you want to talk
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: about what leaves the losses in the Big Ten, and
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: some of them have been close, but a lot of
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: them not. When you go on scoring droughts, this is
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: what happens. We're mixing starting lineups up right now, trying
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: something different. Okay, great, Like I don't read into that
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: stuff too much. You got to find the five guys
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: that are going to give your best option to win
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and that combines both offensive and defensively. What you think,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and yeah, we're deep, but we still lack the playmaker,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the score, the go to guy. It was Bryce very clearly.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: It's still I think needs to be Bryce, but we
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: have to find ways to get him to be a
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: part of this offense in an efficient way without playing
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: like we used to with Cam Mack, with Alonzo Verge,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: with Teddy. It can't be that kind of basketball because
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: that clearly didn't work and that really destroys the locker room.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: We have to find some adjustments here to get Bryce
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Williams back going with his talent. So where do things
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: go from here for Husker basketball? Great question. We've said
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: get to five hundred and the big ten that'll get
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you in the tournament. That's still a true statement. I think,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I really do. But the schedule's toughening up here. We
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: just played Wisconsin on Sunday, another road game that we
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: talked about that wasn't pretty. Two more ranked opponents coming up,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: beginning with Illinois on Thursday at home. That'd be a
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: big one, but there's nothing to believe that we're going
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to win that game right now, given our last few
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: home games. It used to be the PBA the vault,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: no one could come in and win. Well guess what
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: now it's happened twice. Does this team have fight left
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: in them? Under Fred Hoiberg, under this coaching staff, to
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: get back to the conversation of middle of the Big
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: ten pack, that's where we're at right now. I don't
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: want to say I don't believe it, but it's been
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: scary the last few games, and it's almost been as
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: fun as it was to watch with this team a
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: month ago. It's almost been equally as tough to watch
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: from the last few weeks. So five hundred and the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Big Ten, I think that's the goal. But right now,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: don't even think about that. Let's just think about winning
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of games. We talked about how you lose
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: a game on the road, you know, you make up
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: for it for winning it at home, or vice versa.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Lose a game at home, then you got to steal
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: one on the road or right now, we're not winning
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: at all, so throw that out the window as well.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: We have to find a way to win games. The
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Big Ten conference is not very very top heavy. As
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: we've mentioned before, everybody is in a very similar vote.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of winnable games left on the schedule,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of close ones. But
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: does his team have the fight in the momentum to
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: push through that? That's the question. That's what's yet to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: be seen. And if they don't, could this be the
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: end of Fred Hoiberg at Nebraska. What does it look
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: like for him if we can't get even a Big
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: ten tournament birth of being left out of there. I
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't think. I don't know what the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: administration is going to think of that, given how the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: year started, given how we finished the year last year,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: and then given where we're going. Now, that's my two
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: cents here on Nebraska basketball. Let's move on to the
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: second topic here is Nebraska football, And without going detailed
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: into the recruiting like we have in the past, there's
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: still a lot of rumors news out there of now
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: some of the guys on the teams that played in
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the semi finals and the National Championship, of potential transfers there,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the portals still crazy. We know that, we know there's
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of moving parts from now until
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: the spring season kicks. Off here in a couple of months.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: What I am thinking about as a Husker football fan
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: right now and rule in the direction this program is going,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: is you have to build a program and a roster
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: and you have the ability to do it now in
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the portal that you think gives us the best chance
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: to win in Nebraska given what we have coming back
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: and what we're able to retain from last year's team,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: whether that be for the NFL Draft or for people
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: leaving in the portal or just graduating. Here's the pieces
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: we have coming back. What pieces do we need to
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: add from the portal from the recruiting classes to get
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: what you think gives us the best chance to win?
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: That is ultimately your job as the head coach, as
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: a coaching staff of a Division one football program. Dylan
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Royola still lacks to run the ball as a quarterback.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: And that's the third piece is developing your current players
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: into what you believe. We have heard that that is
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: what we think needs to be. One potential solution for
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: next year is Dylan Royola running the ball more. Maybe
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: not completely designed. We're not saying Lamar Jackson type stats
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: in play design, but being serviceable. Look at all these
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: guys in the college football playoff. Look at him, Look
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: at Will Howard. Look what Riley Leonard does. Look at
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Quinn Ewers. What he can do with his legs. Look
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: what even he can do. He's not a running quarterback,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: but all four quarterbacks and the college football semi finals
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: have the ability to be elusive in the pocket, scramble
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: when need to, and yeah when we need a when
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: you need a first down, call a design quarterback carry
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: up the middle. Look at the NFL teams that are left,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Look at the Eagles, look at the cheeks. That is
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: what college football and football needs. That's what you need
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: as a quarterback. So that is one big item to
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: improve on. Heading in as you think of an identity,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's what that's that's what a coaching staff
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: should believe in. No matter where you're at, what level
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you're playing at, that should be a part of your identity.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: But this leaves the conversation into positions and what are
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: you recruiting? What type of people do you want to get?
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: What's most important when you're building a team, when you
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: if you want to relate it to basketball, you know
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: what kind of players are you going at? After you
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: going after the three level scorer wing? Are you going
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: after a strong center? First? Is that how you want
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to build your team around? Do you want a point
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: guard that just manages the game? What are you building?
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: How are you building your team? When it comes to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Nebraska football and this staff in the program in general,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: it starts and I really like this thought because I
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: heard this from somewhere else, but it's true. It starts
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: with the people that are closest to the football on
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the snap. That starts with your offensive line, specifically your
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: center and guards, and then defensively, your interior defensive lineman.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Those are your meaty, mighty boys up front that are
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: going to do so much for you. If you're strong
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: at that position, that, to me, you just want to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: start somewhere.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: You start there. I get it.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Quarterbacks very important, I get it. There's other positions that
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: are very important. But if you don't have anything up front,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: we saw that with Adrian Martinez. Adrian Martinez was the
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: CFL or xfl UFL whatever it's called, player of the
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Year this last year. You see it. That program is
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: similar to us, like k State. You see it how
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Iowa has trash quarterbacks a year after year but continue
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: to outplay Nebraska because it starts upfront. If we don't
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: get that established from a recruiting standpoint, from a transfer
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: portal standpoint, and it's limited. It is limited in the
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: portal with the offensive lineman. But if you can't start
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: there and get those pieces figured out, it doesn't matter
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: anywhere else what you have.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: It doesn't.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't say for certain that this
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: coaching staff believes in that. I don't know. We are
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: trying to get lineman in your crew, and they talk
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: about it, but that doesn't mean crap when you go
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: out in the field and our line continues to struggle
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: against average teams. They weren't atrocious this year like they
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: have in the past couple. But our strength of our
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: team is not our offensive line. Hell, I don't know
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: what our strength of our team is. We better be
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: figuring that out. So I would start there and guess what.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Speaking to that same point, Number two is your quarterback.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: It's very important, but it's the quarterback that fits into
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: what you want to do in your identity. What does
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Matt Rule want out of his quarterback? What does Dana
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Holgerson now Marcus Saderfield before what do they want out
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: of their quarterback? What is their ideal prototype to start
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the year, to start the tenure. We grab Jeff Simms,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: whop flop. Okay, we go out and get Dylan Rayola. Great,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: but is that the kind of quarterback that you're wanting
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: for your system or because you've got Dylan now you're
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: having to redesign your entire system to fit the type
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: of quarterback that he is. Dylan had negative rushing yards
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: negative in high school. That's fine. He's very talented. We've
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: seen the talent of his arm. We know what he
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: can do mentally on that side of the ball. But
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: he's got no legs, and that's fine. If you want
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: to put your eggs in that basket, you have better
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: either develop him into where he can be mobile, because
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: every other great college football NFL team right now that's
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: what their quarterbacks can do. Or you better be damn
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: good at figuring out a way to use him in
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the passing game. And goes back to the offensive line.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Better have a damn good offensive line to not let
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: him get sacked and hit back there in the pocket.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: That wasn't the cases here, Dylan adds some miss of
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: his own he's still a freshman. I get it, But
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: don't make that an excuse.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: People.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, if we want to hold him to a standard
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: of being a five star quarterback and one of the
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: top in his class and Patrick Mahomes comparisons and this
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: guy having Heiden come if we want to, if we
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: want to hold him to that, don't be making the excuse. Ah,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: he's just a freshman. He's got a long ways to learn. Well,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: that's the truth. I agree with that. It's up to
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the staff develop him into what they want to get
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: out of Dylan Royola at the quarterback position, the Dylan specifically,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: but the quarterback position I think is second most important.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: After you talk about your interior offensive line, and I'll
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: just throw this in there too, the rest of your
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: line is probably next important to me. You know, your tackles,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: your dns, your pass rushers, the guys that are blocking
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: the past rushers are protecting your quarterback. I think that's
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the next most important. Yes, above running backs and receivers
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and your secondary. I think that's very important. I'm gonna
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: throw a fourth one here, and this maybe is a
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: little bit of a recency bias, but I think this
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: is more important than these next next positions as far
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: as winning close games, and I'm gonna group them into one,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: but it is your specials and special teams players. And
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about we need the best punter in
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the country. I'm not saying that that'd be nice, but
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: it's important from a standpoint of winning football games. I
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: don't know that it's a third of the game. Some
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: coaches like to call special teams a third of the game.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't go that far, but I would say special
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: teams wins and loses you a lot of games. Ask
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Iowa and then ask Nebraska for different reasons. I think
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: it's more important than having an elite running back. I
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: do from what we've seen in the past, special teams,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: kicking the ball, hell snapping the ball, holding the ball,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: punting the ball, covering, kickoff, all of that combined is
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: way more important to me than any other position outside
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: of the offensive line, defensive line, quarterback. Next up, I'm
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: going linebackers. I think linebackers are your guys that have
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: to fly around the field. They're making a lot of
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: calls at your quarterback. On defense, They're the ones that
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: are being able to see a lot of the adjustments.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: So you know, some teams play with two, three, four,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: depending on the formation. I think your linebackers are more
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: important than and guess what, they're next closer to the
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: ball as we work our way out after them. Shortly after,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I'd say your running backs. I think the ability to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: stop the run, which goes to the defensive groups, and
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: then the ability to run the ball efficiently and effectively matters.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: And I really just hit home. Running backs, I think
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: is seeing their value in importance more so this year
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: after watching some of these guys, Cam Scattabo from Arizona State,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: ash and Genty from Boise State. Those were not great
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: football teams all around, but single handedly those running backs
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: are damn good. And you put those guys on a
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: team like Nebraska, I think it significantly improves your chances
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: of winning a lot of games. But I would also
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: say those teams have an equally, if not better offensive
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: line than Nebraska, and people might disagree with that, and yes,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: their quality of opponents are different, but our schedule was
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: pretty cake glass year. It's gonna be pretty cake next year.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: So having a running back and I think Emma Johnson
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: showed signs of that later in the year. As far
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: as what he could be as far as being more
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: of a feature back, I don't think he's put the
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: level of those other two that I just mentioned, but
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: he's pretty dang good. I think it's smart to use
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: a guy like that and give him more carries if
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: that's your only option. Now, Dante Daldell out in the portal.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: We'll have some new guys in. We'll see if we
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: can rotate some backs. I don't think it's as important
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: as far as usage, depending on the guys that you've got,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: but they have to be able to make a guy
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: miss in the second level. They have to be able
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: to get an extra two or three yards after contact
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: here and there. Not every time, but here and there.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: That has to be part of your run game. Is
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: your running backs have to be solid. Next, I would
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: go second to the bottom. Here is a secondary. I
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: think secondary is important. There's a lot of teams that
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: like to throw the ball. I think we've got exploited
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: in there in that area before. I just don't see
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: them as important because they're furthest away from the ball.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: They're still important. All these positions are important to an extent,
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  Speaker 1: But I just think it's the second to least important,
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  Speaker 1: because my least important is wide receivers, and that's who
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  Speaker 1: ultimately is defending them. Another thing over the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years that I have, just amongst talking to people
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and thinking about these teams and how they're formed at
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: all levels in football having success. How many of these
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: stud teams have just elite wide receivers. I mean, there's
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: a there's a few, there's exceptions, right, you know, look
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  Speaker 1: at some of the teams this year in Collegeville. I
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: would say, Ohio State had some pretty elite wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: and they won the national title. Great. They also had
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: elite running backs. They also had an elite offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position, Will Howard was serviceable. Penn State, you're telling
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  Speaker 1: me they had elite wide receivers. No, Notre Dame. Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a couple of pieces, but I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say necessarily elite. Look at the other teams that made
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, Boise State, Arizona State, Okay, we talked about
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: them already. Their strengths running the ball, SMU. They like
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: to run the ball receivers at the college level, and
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: now look at the pro level. The Kansas City Chiefs.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Tell me how many elite wide receivers they have had
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: in their six or seven year AFC Championship appearance in
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: a row. Run Tyreek Hill for a little bit, you
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: could call him elite Kelsey tight end. Tight ends in
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: a unique position. Now that I'm bringing that up. Where
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: do you throw tight end at offensive line and receiver?
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: So I guess you want to balance it out first
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: and last. They're right in the middle as far as
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  Speaker 1: importance goes. But the Chiefs, it's a committee of wide receivers.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: They just plug in, replace because they have all the
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: other pieces. Look at the Eagles. Look what they did
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  Speaker 1: last year, in the year before DeVonta Smith, AJ Brown. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're good receivers and maybe elite, but look what they
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: added this year and look where their identity is shifted
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: to in twenty twenty four and twenty five offensive line,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: run the football. Saquon Barkley by far the best turning
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: back in the NFL this year. Look at the Lions.
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  Speaker 1: The Lions score point at will this year. A'mn ross
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Saint Brown?
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  Speaker 3: Great?
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  Speaker 1: Can anybody tell me who their number two receiver is?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: That's not a fancy football guru. My points is wide receivers,
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  Speaker 1: They're not very important. If you have the other pieces
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and things, your identity, and you establish the run game,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: your receivers are going to get open and make plays.
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  Speaker 4: And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: We've had guys and we've blamed our receivers. Our receivers
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: don't get open. I get it. But man, every year,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: all we hear about is how good these transfers are
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: and how much improved our receivers that. I'm not disagreeing
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: with that, But let's focus on the offensive line first.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Let's focus on getting the established exactly what we want upfront,
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  Speaker 1: the players closest to the ball, and work our way out.
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  Speaker 1: The wide receiver position I don't think is very important
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  Speaker 1: out of every position on the team that you want
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: to categorize, I think it's the absolute bottom. I don't
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: even think it's close. Does it help have elite playmakers?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: It does, In fact, I would say it more so
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: helps to baill you out Samurai there. You know a
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  Speaker 1: guy like that, Wandale, a guy like that. You know
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: guys that can just flat out run. I think that helps,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: But man, I don't think it's the difference maker on
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: a football team. Is having a good wide receiving group.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: So anyways, I thought that was a good place to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: a good discussion to have here as we're building our
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  Speaker 1: roster for the next year, as we start to talk
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: about our spring roster heading into the twenty twenty five season,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: what is important? What is this coaching staff believes important
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: because we're not gonna know, we're gonna hear that every
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: position is important and how everything's going well because that's
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: what we do in Nebraska and that's what we're gonna hear,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and how great everything is. What it's truly gonna get
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: valued is going to show on the field when we
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: play Cincinnati and Arrowhead Stadium starting in twenty twenty five.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: That's gonna tell us the direction we're going. Will Dylan
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: have lost any weight and look a little more mobile?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: We've heard that he's going to and it's important. Let's
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: see it. Let's see it. Okay, last topic conversation here.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: College football playoff wraps up Ohio State. Nebraska loses to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: them by four, and you know, right around then, the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Michigan loss just seemed to spark Ohio State and the
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: best team won the College Football Playoff this year. I
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: don't think that's a question. I don't think you can
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: debate it. They went through Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Dame in four games and won the national title. Name
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: any other team in college football that could take that
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: four game stretch.
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  Speaker 5: And do that.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: There's not one out there. By the way any team
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: was playing at the end of the year. In fact,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: did we get the two best teams in the championship?
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  Speaker 2: I think we might have.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: What other format do you people think would have produced
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: different teams the way that everybody was playing at that
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: point in the year, Texas with Texas Georgia. We saw
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: what happened to Georgia throughout the year. It wasn't the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: normal Georgia we knew in the past few years. Oregon, great,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: you're undefeated, but we saw their flaws. They were the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: undefeated team, rightfully, so they were the number one seed.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: That's great, but Ohio State almost should have won the
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: first time they played, and then they just absolutely obliterated
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: them in the quarterfinals. So there's all this time and
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: media and conversation about restructuring, reformatting, redoing the seeding. Can
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: we just relax and let it play out for a
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: couple of years, I get it. Boise State, Arizona State,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: the three and four seeds. This year, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: That was.
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  Speaker 1: Unique. Did they earn their way? Yeah, they did as
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: far as what they could do, Like, I get it.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: But did it impact the final result of what you
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: want out of a college football playoff, ultimately crowning the
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: best team in college football?
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  Speaker 2: No it didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, all four teams that played in the first
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: four one in Week two, people are gonna play the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: excuse card. Well, you know the vibe that these teams
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: had to buy and these teams shouldn't have to buy. Okay,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: that's fine, but guess what if all the teams of
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: the buye would have won, it would have been Well,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: it's unfair to the team that didn't play in Week
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: one because or it's unfair to the team that did
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: play because they're banged up and they had to play
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: an extra game. There's always gonna be reasons and justifications
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: and excuses. I totally understand that that's what the media
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: and all the talk are unculturable. That's what they want.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: They just want constant conversation. But I think we got
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: what we wanted this year, and I don't see any
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: problem with the way that it was formatted. It's not
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: gonna stay because there'll be too many people that complain
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: about it. I'm guessing we'll see fourteen or sixteen teams soon.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: There may be a restructuring of the rankings. YadA, YadA, YadA.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: That's it's whatever. There's more football going on now, which
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: is what I care about. And the best team still
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: won by playing a tournament, no matter what style you
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: do of anything, I think more than eight teams, you're
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: probably gonna get the best team to win it. That's ultimately,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: whoever wins the chip's the best team. We say it
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: in college basketball every year they've had a sixty fourteen
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: tournament for sixty eight team for who knows how long.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: If anybody wants to argue that the best team doesn't
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: win it, how can you that they're the ones that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: won six straight. That that is just the reality. The
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: best team wins the tournament. Now, you play a series
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: like the NBA, like baseball, you know, where there's maybe
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit more volatility. Yeah, but when it comes
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: to football and lining two teams up, if you can't
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: find a way to win in sixty minutes of football,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: then I don't you're not the better team of the two,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: saying that for years about Nebraska O the best three
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: and nine team. Ever, No, we weren't. We won three games.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: You have sixty minutes to prove you can win a game.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: My take on the playoff, I wish we would just
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: leave it, let it play out. I get at the
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: conference realignment and stuff is going to continue. The PAC
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: twelve's already got new teams in it. Next year it's
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: gonna look different, so we're gonna have to adjust it
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: for stuff like that. But let's not go all on
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: cahoots about the format and how if this, if that,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: if then it's never gonna be perfect. Nobody's ever gonna
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: be completely satisfied with the way. Let's leave it for
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: a few years, see what happens. Obviously, restructuring, restructure as needed,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: but we'll just let it be.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: That'll do it for myself again, unique episode this week.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: We'll be back next Sunday. Release on Monday. Hopefully Nebraska
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: basketball can find a way to get back on the
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: winning side of things.
• 1:07:42
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