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Key insights from Nebraska football spring presser | Huskers headed to College Basketball Crown?
Mar 17, 2025
Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule met with the media on Tuesday, as did some players. Here are some of the key things that we learned, plus other takeaways. We also discuss the #Huskers chances of getting selected to play in the College Basketball Crown. #GBR
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hey Husker fans welcome back to the Husker big red YouTube channel I'm Chris Peterson and joining me as always for the podcast is Danny Gillette my co-host
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and we're back here on this Wednesday morning for another episode of the podcast and we're going to discuss Nebraska's spring press conference of
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the spring football press conference with Matt Rule and a bunch of uh players so we'll discuss what we learned there and some of the key tidbits um we're
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also going to look at some college basketball stuff whether the Huskers will be playing in a postseason tournament the college basketball Crown
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as well as uh some recruiting notes some roster potential enforcements for the 2025 26 Nebraska basketball team so
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we'll get into all of that here in just a second before we do hit the like button hit the Subscribe button get into the comments section and uh Danny how
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are you doing in this morning good just trying to keep up with all the uh uh college basketball transfer portal news
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and of of course the spring practice press conferences so there is still a lot to
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cover yeah there's a lot of things happening I know we haven't seen um you know a lot of transfer portal stuff like
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know Nebraska guys are anything but there's definitely players going into the portal and you know a few guys that Nebraska fans might be interested in so
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um you know we'll definitely be uh monitoring that going forward I'm sure it's only going to be a matter of time
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before Nebraska kind of starts you know reaching out to these guys and the portal opens I think like the 24th March
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24th or it might be later than that but um it doesn't mean that guys aren't aren't getting talked to already as we
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know in the world of uh College athletics there is no um tampering is legal I guess they'll just say say that
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the way that now so um but before we get to basketball we'll touch on that in just a second Matt rule um went to the
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podium on Tuesday to meet with the media uh Roco spinler also met with the media
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deson McCulla um so they offered some interesting uh takes it's always interesting when Matt rule I think goes
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to uh you know do press conferences because he really is for the most part an open book I mean he's he um you know
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is very honest about you know things he opened up the press conference with all the players who were missing you know duee to injury which I thought was uh a
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good thing to do um and to start there there was some interesting names um you know Turner
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corran's going to be out I guess the one that stood out to me Gunner Gula is going to miss um the spring um Carter
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Nelson which we kind of expected uh Turner corkran Henry latoski is going to be limited but a few guys on the
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offensive line are going to be limited so it's it strikes me maybe as a chance for you know like a guy like Gibson pile
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Grant brick Sam Sledge some of these guys to you know kind of make their case to be in the starting lineup next year
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so what do you think about some of that injury information I guess to start well you you hit the nail on the head right
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there some of that injury information to me leads uh leads me to believe that there will be opportunities like a
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Gibson pile or you know a Preston tamoa or you know guys like that to have a chance to show what they can do and it's
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not like these you know pile and you know is a freshman with zero experience
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he's been in the program since last season now so he kind of knows his way around a little bit and and you know
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this will be an opportunity for some guys to really um to really kind of
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assert themselves or at least put themselves in the conversation at the at the positions uh one guy who I thought
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was you know in interestingly named is Tristan alvano and I know he's been dealing with injuries throughout his
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Nebraska career so that part isn't interesting it's just interesting that um you know these injuries still seem to
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be nagging with him and with the success that John Hall had last season at the kicker spot you wonder you know is this
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something that puts Alano's you know not career in Jeopardy but does this put him
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as at a disadvantage already to begin the 2025 season yeah I mean it's going to be I
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think it's going to be difficult to unseat you know John Hall at this point you know as long as he's being consistent making kicks which he did at
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the end of last season I mean when the snaps were good I do think this will probably be a compet ition in the in the
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fall but you know just if if Hall has a really good spring I think that's going to make it difficult I know that they
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have talked about using Tristan as a kickoff specialist so that may be his role next season if he can get healthy
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but um as as far as Place kicking I think is going to be an uphill battle for him and he might and not that this
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is what he wants or what anybody wants but he might need um you know the guy ahead of him to struggle a little bit to
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get his opportunities so I mean really all he can try to do is get healthy and you know when he gets his chance in
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practice or whenever just make the best kicks that he can and but it's not a bad thing for Nebraska to have that depth
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but you know who knows how long that's going to last I mean with the portal and everything I I honestly don't know what
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year John Hall is at this point so I'm not sure if they're you know how that sinks up in terms of their their what class they're in but for Nebraska I mean
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you've got a guy at the end of the season you finished with confidence in and so I would assume that you know he's going to go into the fall as as the guy
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and with Tristan missing the spring I think it's going to be tough for that to change yeah agree and I believe you also
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have another kicker um Nico ottomanelli who could also kind of put his name in
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our conversation there too so the kicking battle is going to be interesting again this season and I certainly wish the best for Tristan and
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um I hope he can heal up and be okay there's just now competition at the kick
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spot yeah and I think you know that's probably not a bad thing um you know
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it'll be interesting to see how it all plays out and um speaking of kicker you know Matt rule talked about hiring um
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you know Mike Eckler on Tuesday and why he decided to do it and it was it just was interesting and just for the record
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John Hall is a retri freshman so um and this was last year um so he was a retri freshman on last year's roster alvano
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was a sophomore so if he took a redri year they'd essentially be the same year so I mean just to just to clarify that
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um but you know my rules talked about how when uh some former players and
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media members were talking about Eckler that made him want to not hire him but after they did the interview he said
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that he couldn't get him out of his brain and I you know just the things that we've heard from Mike Eckler so far
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you know he he said that you know Nebraska is going to speak with their pads um and just you know some of the
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things that he said he talked about Mount Ru is the best leader he's ever been around um which I think is pretty
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you know noteworthy realizing some of the coaches that Mike Eckler's worked for um but
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yeah I think that they're going to improve with the Special Teams and it's also interesting to me that um some NFL
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teams tried to hire away Corey Campbell um and some other people on the support staff for Nebraska so my take away from
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all that is Nebraska really did a good job in putting this staff together you
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know with the with the general uh the general manager um which they talk with Pat Stewart rule talked about that
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higher more and becoming more like an NFL team um keeping your strength coach adding Mike Eckler adding Dana hogerson
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a former head coach adding John Butler um who's now in his second year with the program but really to me it feels like
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you know his first full season because last year he had to come in at such a late point you know I feel like he was in a tough spot and he still did a good
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job but I feel like this year he's really going to be able to do it you know have a better rapport with his
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players and um I think that's going to help him overall just you know in terms of his uh job as the defensive coordinator so one of my big takeaways
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is I think Nebraska absolutely killed it in uh you know building this staff this offseason yeah they built an NFL type
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STA and um you know when you look at some of the names and you see what their
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resumés are it's clear that Matt Ru has come you know came into this offseason with a focus to build out the staff and
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a bigger Focus I think in Player Development and I think you're G to see that with Mike Eckler I think you're GNA
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see that with Terry Braden I think you're going to see a continuation of that under John Butler now in his first
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you know full season as Nebraska's defensive coordinator so there's a very clear plan here and um you know I think
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um I think this coaching staff is much more
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suited for the Big 10 and today's college football than maybe the previous staff
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was yeah I agree and you know with with Stuart I think a lot of things you know talking it's a lot of the stuff that we
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said but evaluating players in the portal but also you know assigning the
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right market value to them I think I think that's going to be an important thing going forward like really evaluating these players and and what
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they value should be right because there's not there's not an infinite amount of money that Nebraska can spend
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you know so you you can't really go say like Hey we're going to spend you know $700,000 on Rocko Spindler and have him
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be a bust you know what I mean so I think that's part of it but then also just saying like hey you know we're
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we're GNA this is how much we're going to spend for like a tight end like we're not going to break the bank for a tight end we're not going to break the bank
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for certain positions and I think all of that philosophy will help and you you know Matt rule really said it at one
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point he said like we had you know four or five people like in in this room and and you know that was less than what
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some other college people had in terms of like scouting and that type of stuff and he's like now it looks like an NFL
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operation and that's what you need to have and that's what the big boys have and so when they made this higher to me it felt like and I mean Stuart the
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general manager I felt like it was a big boy move and another step kind of saying like Hey we're going to do everything
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that we can to try to win and um you know he even talked about the revenue sharing with the Tennessee game and and
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how um or just the the financial implications of like you need to win so you know whether it has to do with like
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the playoff or anything else I think at the end of the day Nebraska was like we're going to make more money if we play these home games and having more
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money is going to help us put out a better football program and as much as people don't like that that is the truth so I think nebrask is making the right
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moves and they're they're doing everything they can to win and um you know as a fan that has that feels good
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at the very least they're keeping up with the drones is instead of ignoring the trends or falling behind and and
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that in itself right there is an improvement from some other years I'll say that and um you know I think when
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you look at these general managers people are oh general managers in college football what is this the NFL
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well it's trending towards that way I mean we are seeing an NFL model uh in
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college football now and that's just the way it is and I think you know as you
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know Nebraska struggled for the longest time to even even get the ship writed on
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nil and now they have you know an athletic director who supports nil they have a general manager you know they're
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starting to really be Forward Thinking in regards to you know I'm not going to
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say the future of college football but how college football is trending and that that's very important and a lot of
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that can be attributed to Matt Rule and another thing that could be attributed I think to Matt rule which I
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thought was interesting um you know Roco Spindler talked about the Matt drills and we've heard about that these that
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you know these are no joke and he said you know these are no joke and they were unlike anything that he'd ever done at
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Notre Dame even called his parents um because Nebraska like to explain him that Nebraska takes these mat drills so
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seriously so I think that that's a positive step I mean the Matt rule is uh you know putting these guys through the
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grinder they're put they're putting in the work this offseason and um you know I feel like spinler is going to be a big
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time addition I like some of the stuff that he said um but also I came away from this press conference and not that
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I I was excited about the defensive line but you know like rule pointed out that he feels really good about how the
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defensive Line's going to play next season um Jason McCulla you know shouted out didn't shout out but I mean he
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talked about Williams no being you looking like a first round pick and you talk we also talk about some other guys
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that have been kind of ready and waiting their turn and to I took that like you know Riley van Pao Kiana Davis Cameron
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Leonard you know Elijah Jud some of those guys who are coming back on this team that are going to have to take you
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know big leaps I think they will and then when you add no and you know Jon McCulla who you know I would take him
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over James Williams in a heartbeat in terms of a pass rusher so like to me I think Nebraska you know upgraded there I
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think you look at noer you look at Jaylen George who's going to miss part of the spring um you know Leonard I
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think is a very similar guy to you know Prince wellan so for the most part I think Matt ru's right this defensive
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line is going to play very well and I came like I said I came away from the press conference you know feeling even better about you know Nebraska's
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defensive front and I feel like the defensive line instruction led by Braden will be slightly better too not that knon was a
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bad coach I thought Terrence knon was actually a very good coach but when you have somebody coming in from the NFL who
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could have honestly taken you know other NFL jobs and is a Super Bowl champion I mean
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I I I think that certainly means something as well so I know a lot of fans and even us were kind of wondering
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what the direction of the defensive line will be well I think it will be going upward and I think that's the direction
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and um I'm very interested to see the leap that cam Leonard is gonna make this
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year because he had a relatively down year last year I'm not going to you know
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crap on him too badly but um if he can take that next leap and be the impact
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playmaker that we know he can be that's going to even that that's going to make the defensive line even stronger
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yeah and he um yeah wasn't like a terrible season he just didn't he didn't take the big leap that we thought he was
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going to take but um you know three tackles for a loss half a sack 16 tackles so I mean he still you know had
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some good moments for sure like he had um you know especially like against Colorado one and a half tackles for loss
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half a sack so he just needs to be more consistent you've also got you know Willis mahe um the fourth who's going to
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be um you know making an impact this year I think as a as a pass rusher um so
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I just feel like overall this defensive line I also like how they're going to be used I think they'll be used in a different way I don't think it's going
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to be you know that 335 as much I think you're going to see more kind of like three four type principles um and you
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might even see more fourman defensive fronts I mean the 425 essentially you know a lot of teams you talk about the
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335 but even even last year Nebraska played a lot of what essentially was a 4-25 you know when rushing the passers
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so but overall I mean I just look at the different pass rushers that they have and I think it's pretty it's pretty
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exciting because it's like you Williams and A's there and I know they're expecting things from him but I feel like they could have a solid pass rush
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without him really making that much of an impact this season yeah and you know I think the way
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you can come at you know an offense from the perspective of rushing a passer you
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can put guys on the edge you can Blitz them late like we saw Vincent Shavers doing that bow game against Boston
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College that kind of delayed blitzing action you you can allow them to free
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form a little bit and just focus on you know getting them to rush the passer
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period not any specific sort of scheme to put them in because I think their athleticism allows that and so there's a
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lot of different ways they can go defensively and um I know pass rushing
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in previous seasons has been difficult to find for Nebraska and I don't think that's going to be the case this year
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yeah I think they have a lot of you know Edge vers types you know that are Edge Jack whatever types and then you've got
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you know your traditional defensive line guys Jaylen George Leonard who are going to you know rush like with their hand in the dirt type of thing but um in no I
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guess you could put in that um mold too but then Maka Mahi like I said there there's a lot of um Dawson Meritt is
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another one who could be you know a pass rushing type I think they're gonna see where he fits best but I just like all
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the different pieces that they kind of have coming together um yeah rule also talked about another key thing was um
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you know the backup quarterback and it seems to me like it's basically going to be Jaylen Graham Dad it's going to if there if there anybody takes a snap this
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year besides Dylan riola it'll be Jaylen Graham dead outside of like uh garbage
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time like trying to get guys snaps type of thing I think like Marcus Dila um he said that hogerson was very comfortable
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with adding Dila Dane key and Hardley Gilmore um so you know to me should be
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yeah yeah and the receivers obviously make sense but to me I think the quarterback that's like the important part of that and um you know we talked
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about Dila and he's R he was ranked higher than Daniel Kalin so like I know that some people were like oh we lost
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you know we lost um this developmental quarterback but you know added another one in Dilo who is from the same class
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spent a year with the big 10 team and now he's going to get a year to develop under hogerson who actually had an interest in him before when he was at
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Houston so I think that makes a lot of sense I think he can develop as that
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third quarterback you've got TJ Latif going to be that number four guy who I really don't you know foresee him
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getting on the field this year and um yeah hopefully none of them have to play at all except in garbage time well I
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think when you have a better offensive line like they do this year then that takes you know then that takes some of
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that worry away um I think D is really really interesting um you know he's
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obviously like you said spent time with Purdue uh he's got a very strong arm he's he's he was pretty good quarterback
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in high school and so I think when you look at this quarterback room and where it was a year ago
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you know now you add TJ Latif in there too I think it's in a much better spot than than where it was and you know
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initially losing Daniel Kalin was kind of a bummer but I think now that the
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dust has settled we're seeing what the quarterback room looks like and you have Dila Latif you obviously have grad and
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then of course rayola I I I like the way it sits yeah I think it it's perfect right
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now honestly I think it's exactly what you want it to be you have you know your starter you have a backup who's not a
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threat to your starter but um you know can come in and and play solid football and as a veteran and Rule you know said
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that those two kind of vibe off each other really well so I think that's a healthy thing to have kind of that veteran backup and and Jaylen grad's
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kind of already expressed that he wants to be a coach in the future so I mean having a guy who already kind of has that mindset I think as the backup
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quarterback like I think that's really valuable and then also for to to Mentor you know Latif and deila too so I mean
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you're going to have a guy who wants to be a quarterback coach playing quarterback and kind of mentoring all three of your young guys so I feel like
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that's a positive thing you have two blue chip quarterbacks you know waiting in the wings and so really if you can
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just you know thinking two years down the road if you can develop one of them into a starter then you're sitting
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pretty well at the quarterback position so I feel like yeah Nebraska is in an ideal spot in terms of their quarterback
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room right now and even if one necessarily doesn't work out or something happens now you can go into
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the transfer portal and get another one it's it's it's almost like shopping right it's it's shopping and you can
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pick up somebody when you need them or you know you ran out of you you ran out of cereal you can go get another box
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once that one's done you know so it's kind of really interesting how the portal Dynamic has changed High School
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recruiting and also you know the urgency of recruiting Because and for like for
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Nebraska for some positions you know and I guess this is true for anybody too there's not as much urgency to recruit a
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specific position due to the fact that so many kids are in the portal now yeah for sure and um it's going to keep
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changing that way I think we'll we'll see there'll be uh a chance to add some players in the spring portal as well for
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Nebraska football but um a lot of reasons I think to be optimistic going into Spring ball so um absolutely let's
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shift now to uh college basketball Nebraska bask Nebraska basketball which
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hasn't been as fun a topic for fans uh lately but I guess the first thing we should mention which was some really
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good news Bryce Williams um gets a first team all big 10 from the coaches and from the media
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so um that was good to see you know you just never know how things are going to work out especially you know when Nebraska finished as poorly as they did
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but he clearly was the best scorer in the League this year so I think he might have won the scoring title I just forgot to I just didn't care about it after
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they lost so I'd have to check on that but um I think actually the guy from Northwestern may
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have scored more points than him um but anyway at any rate it was a an incredible season for him he was the
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only Nebraska player to get any sort of uh Big 10 honors but you know it's pretty interesting that he's a you know
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we loved Kay tominaga but you know he was what third team or honorable mention and Bryce Williams First Team all big 10
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so just uh it's interesting how that all works out sometimes only we had them on the same team again yeah and and rink uh
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yeah think of that we had Kay rink Mast Bryce Williams and Jan Gary all on the
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same that that's the team that should have won an NCA Tournament game so we got we got screwed with the Texas A&M
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matchup and I'll hold that opinion to this day but anyway uh congratulations to Bryce I mean he's been one of the
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most successful Bas Nebraska basketball players in recent memory he was so dependable um and you know I think and I
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think ultimately he carried too much of the scoring load which we saw at various
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points uh this season and uh he did it well you could tell by the end of the season he was out of gas understandably
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you know but by and large he he was able to play at a high level the entire season and um you talk about the
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transfer portal kind of being a uh shot in the dark at some you know sometimes
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Nebraska hit really well with Bryce Williams and that's another reason why I
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want Fred hyberg to stay is because I feel like he's I mean look at what he did with you know they they brought in
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tomaga who basically like nobody wanted out of the transfer portal and turned him into an NBA player Bryce Williams
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probably I mean if he doesn't get drafted he's going to get a shot in the g- league I mean his stock from Charlotte improved rink Mast went from a
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Mac team or wherever he was the Missouri Valley I think Missouri Valley for Bradley now look at him I mean so I feel
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like these guys are transferring up and Fred's helping them improve them their uh not only like their professional
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stock but just they're playing a lot better and I I feel like that that's something hyri gonna continue to be able to sell to people um you know Sam griel
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is another guy came to Nebraska got to the got professional contract overseas Derk Walker I mean there's a l I know
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they're not getting into the NBA but they these guys are getting professional opportunities because they're coming to
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Nebraska and like Fred hyberg knows how to develop player Jan Gary look at Jan Gary he was he basically like was a
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bench player for Alabama and he became a a premier starter for Nebraska so I just feel like you know he's got a lot to to
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sell and and Fred um you know did have a statement on the radio the other day where he said you know basically like I
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promise that we're going to do everything we can to get back to the NCA tournament um you know this is where he wants to be this is what he's passionate
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about and so I don't still think that people are crazy for wanting Fred hoyberg to be fired um but at any rate we've already
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discussed that so what I wanted to discuss a little bit more is the the postseason fate of Nebraska and the
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college basketball Crown which I know is complicated I've been trying to to get wrap my head around the NIT selection
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process so I'm not sure if Nebraska is going to get into the NIT um because I think that I I think that they could get
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a a a selection into the NIT but the crown basically is taking precedence and
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essentially you know you have the big 10 which is a TV partner of fox and so Fox
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is putting this tournament on essentially and so it's all the of conferences that they you know have
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broadcast rights to Big East Big 12 Big 10 so the top two big 10 teams that don't make the NCA tournament have to go
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to the crown they have to accept that birth it's not a choice so I think that's going to be where Nebraska ends
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up as one of the top two teams to miss the NCA tournament um the only bummer about the crown compared to the NIT is
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that at the NIT you could potentially host a home game but I'm not sure if Nebraska made it if they would be seated
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high enough to get a home game so um you know there's that but this tournament I think could be pretty fun because you're
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going to have 16 I think power four teams there's going to be other teams invited and I know it's not the NCA
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tournament but I would love to see Bryce Williams and Joan Gary play again and and maybe they can make a run get to 20
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wins and maybe win this uh college basketball Crown tournament like I think that would be you know it's not making
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the ncas but it would be a better end than than having nothing and the last time they played a tournament on a
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neutral floor they they they won it all so yeah maybe that's a good omen but I would love to see these guys play one
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more time I know you know I'm frustrated with how the season ended but if they have an opportunity to play one more
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time why not let's see what they can do and um you know
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ultimately I feel like this team was a lot better than they showed but you know
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we'll have to see how things play out not only in the crown but for this
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program in the offseason you know I think this is going to be a pivotal offseason and you mention um Hy brg's
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comments on the radio to me what I heard is we're going to open up the checkbook
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I hope I hope that's what it that's I hope that's what it means in real life but uh I heard you know that they're
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going to be aggressive and you know things like that and I'm wondering you know exactly how they're going to you
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know get better and do what Fred wants to do yeah they gota got to spend more
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in nil they've done it in football and um I hope that they will do it in basketball because you look at some of these guys who went to you know people
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are talking about like oh Chucky heurn did this at Louisville and Frankie Fiddler and you know the reason Nebraska didn't get those guys nil I can
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guarantee that's that's 100% the only reason like there's a you know like Louisville probably was offering he burn
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a hell of a lot more money than Nebraska and the same thing with Michigan State so like I get being mad at Fred but you
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know this Troy Dannon and Nebraska really need to give him the resources to be a top program otherwise
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it's pretty damn hard if you don't have the talent it's pretty damn hard so um I'll give him a pass last off season
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because Dann was just coming in when everything was happening so we'll see this year this year will be a better uh
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measuring stick in my opinion yeah and because it's like I get The Narrative of all these Omaha guys like playing well
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at other places but it's like not like Nebraska didn't try they tried for every single one of those guys there's a reason they didn't get them and it's
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money so that has to get fixed or you know Nebraska's going to be recruiting the same guys from you know power from
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mid major conferences which they've done well at Fred does well at that but yeah give Fred hyberg some NBA talent and see
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what this team can do so um what I was going to say though about the crown I want to make this final Point that's
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inconvenient though is that it's March 31st to April 6 so that's after the transfer portal opens so it's like are
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you even gonna how many guys are still gonna be on this team I mean I guess you're gonna you could have Bryce you have like all your senior type players
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and Shirley Sam not leaving yeah Conor so you probably have enough to field the team but but that is kind of one
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question mark about this tournament and some of these tournaments in that time period is that you know it might be like
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the bowl game thing where guys are like I'm in the portal but I'm gonna play in the in the college basketball crown for
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so I don't know I guess that's just part of the college basketball landscape but um I'm excited about Nebraska's chances
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of playing in a postseason tournament and uh hopefully they they can win um you know put together a run and win the
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the crown like they won the NIT back like 1996 that was still one of my best memor as a Nebraska basketball fan is
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them winning the NIT which is I guess sad but it was still I would still love for them to win a postseason tournament
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so I mean that's not terribly sad I mean obviously you want him to win an NCAA
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Tournament game but uh you know I think I think the crowd will be interesting it'll give it'll give the boys one last
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chance to play together and um be able to kind of you know see see what they
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have left and um I think the roster is going to look obviously totally different next year but it'll be good to
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get hopefully most of this group together one last time yeah I'm just looking at it I'm
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trying to think of the last time Nebraska even like made it to the NIT
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and won because it's been a long time since they've won a a postseason game that wasn't like a big 10 Tournament game you know it's they've um made it to
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the NIT a few times and they I know they won a few games under um you know miles but uh just thinking about it I mean
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just from the this team probably hasn't won a post season game like a postseason Tournament game in a decade so I think
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that right there is reason enough to try to go and do something at the college basketball Crown yeah and I'm actually looking up
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right now the last time neas on an nit and I'm trying to find uh an answer but
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um yeah it's a little difficult so um it's been a while so it' be it'd be nice
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to um you know have them get back to to that and the thing about the crown I
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know everybody's like you know oh it's not we can't even make the n well the Crown's trying to basically replace the
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NIT they're they're basically trying to say that the NIT is irrelevant and that there's too many M major teams and so
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they're trying to create a tournament that you know kind of focuses on the on the bigger teams and so you know it's
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all it's all about TV because it uh 96 last time they won well they won the but
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they won they won games in the NIT what I was trying to say but um but yeah but any rate at any rate um I forgot where I
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was going with that uh people were complaining about the crown you know
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and yeah and so I think yeah well the NIT those two things are changing I know
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these tournaments are confusing but really you have you also have the CBI um the CIT so there's like five postseason
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college basketball tournaments but even then there's only like 140 teams that make it and there's 364 teams in
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division one college basketball so even if you play in one of these smaller tournaments you're still one of only 40%
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of the teams to make it to a postseason tournament so like I get it I get it's frustrating but I still want to see this
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team play again so we'll uh we'll find out about that on like Monday or Tuesday after the NCA tournament selection show
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um it really sucks that we uh are sitting out the Big 10 tournament this week so it is what it is but
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underwhelmed yeah very very underwhelmed so I probably won't be watching the Big 10 tournament very much because of that
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so um but I will be uh I will be watching uh the women's selection show
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on Sunday to see where our Corn Huskers get picked um and yeah we'll go from
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there so there still is going to be some Nebraska March Madness just uh just not the same as it was last year with both there's going to be March Madness but
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maybe not the madness that everybody's thinking up yeah so but uh at any rate
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