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Underrated roster moves by Nebraska football; Thoughts on Nebraska basketball
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Jan 25, 2025
Nebraska football has a couple of veterans returning for next season, plus there could be a new transfer portal commitment for the Huskers. We also talked about the state of Nebraska basketball after a blowout loss. #GBR #Huskers
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hey Husker fans welcome back to the
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Husker big rade YouTube channel I'm
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Chris Peterson and joining me as always
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is my co-host Danny Gillette and we're
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back for another episode of the podcast
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this morning and we've got uh some
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Nebraska basketball to talk about after
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a rough weekend at Purdue um we also
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have some key veteran players that
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should be returning for the Nebraska
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football team so we'll talk about that
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some more transfer portal uh Intel some
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more commitments potentially coming and
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some other things there so we'll get to
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all that in just a moment before we do
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Danny how are you doing on this Monday
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morning I'm doing well I'm doing well
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it's been a busy busy week or so but a
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lot to get into but uh uh between
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writing for the Patriots and their new
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uh head coaching hire and Mike Vel and
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Nebraska recruiting I've been pretty
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busy yeah it has been a a busy time um
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for the Huskers and you know with the
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NFL coaching stuff is going to be
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picking up here pretty soon um it does
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feel like things are you know starting
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to slow down with the transfer portal
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and stuff like that um but let's lead
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off with uh Nebraska basketball on
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Sunday we'll start there um we'll get to
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the football stuff here in a minute
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that's just the most recent thing in my
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mind and wow that was not what I
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expected from Nebraska I didn't expect
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them to win I didn't predict them to win
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that game but I thought that they would
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put up a lot more fight and to me you
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know that was an example of when you
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allow one loss to turn into two because
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they still it seems like to me didn't
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get off the mat from the Iowa game and
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beyond that this three-point defense is
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just atrocious we saw them have problems
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with it last year and they kind of fixed
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it but way way way too many wideopen
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threes for Purdue yesterday yeah way too
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many wide openen threes and I understand
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Purdue on the road is a tough place to
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play I believe the boiler makers you
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know had W 19 games a row at home sounds
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familiar like the Vault but um yeah it
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was just uh you know a mess yesterday
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and anytime Nebraska got any sort of
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momentum Purdue would answer you know
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like that and it was just it was just a
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tough day you saw like you mentioned the
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defensive leaks a little bit and the
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defensive inconsistencies kind of rear
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their ugly head and as you said it's
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kind of been a theme over the past two
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games we saw this a little bit last year
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you know we saw this a little bit last
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year and you know um thankfully last
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year we had enough offense to combat it
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but um today you know it seemed like
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everything or Sunday excuse me it seemed
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like everything was going in for Purdue
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and quite honestly I think you could
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pinpoint even the crat win as one where
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kraton missed a lot of shots and could
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have easily won that game as well so you
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know you're kind of noticing an
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interesting Trend here and not
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necessarily a good one yeah and I think
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when you look at um you know when I look
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at the game yesterday there's two stats
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that really stand out to me one is you
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know obviously the fact that PR made 19
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three-pointers on 33 attempts so over
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50% of their attempts were from the
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three-point line and they made
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58 but the other stat that is really I
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think shows how poorly Nebraska played
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on defense is that Purdue made 41 field
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goals and 32 of those were assisted so
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that means that Nebraska and you can see
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it watching the game but players I don't
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know what in the world they were doing
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but the the ball screen defense the last
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couple of games especially has been god-
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awful I mean these guys just have no
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they're overh helping they're not being
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disciplined they're getting beat to the
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basket I mean that's part of the problem
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is guys are getting beat and then
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they're leaving open shots for other
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players but like the the overh helping
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and like I don't know what was going on
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but like in the first you know maybe
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five minutes of that game Purdue had
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four or five wide openen shots and like
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a wide open shot in college basketball
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is different from like a high school
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wide open shot but if you're not like if
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that contest isn't where the guys faces
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that's a wide open shot and that was
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like almost all of Purdue shots
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yesterday at least to start the game and
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so to me it's just extremely
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discouraging because it's like you
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cannot go into you know West Lafayette
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and and not play defense and expect to
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hang around in that game like Purdue is
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too good of a team they're one of the
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best three-point shooting teams in the
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the country they're like in the top 30
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and like if you go in there and expect
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them to miss like wide open shots that's
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just not going to happen and so I don't
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know the defense to me I don't know how
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you go from you know being like one of
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the top ranked in the in the kenpom and
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then just to being terrible but they've
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kind of always been this way with their
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three-point defense I mean they give up
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as many three-pointers as almost any
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team in college basketball and you know
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when you're when you're giving teams
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that many open looks like they're going
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to make them so I don't know what they
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if they need to adjust a little bit but
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yeah yeah the the defensive um
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communication and the helping and just
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all everything on defense was bad there
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wasn't there wasn't a single good thing
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on defense yesterday it was just
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freaking terrible all around it was just
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bad including the rebounds Purdue out
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rebounded Nebraska by a 33 to2 margin
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and some of those led to Second Chance
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looks for a Purdue team that was that is
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already a very good shooting team and
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again you know this particular statistic
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wasn't necessarily a huge Advantage but
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Purdue won the turnover battle by a 10
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to 17 margin Nebraska has 17 turnovers
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so turnovers are something that I've
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noticed the last couple games start to
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pick up a little bit and this is also
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something that they've had trouble with
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you know in Fred Hoy brg's tenure so it
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seemed like all the all the frustrating
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Trends came out again on
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Sunday and yeah so it's going to be
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interesting to see where this team um is
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projected you know with like
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Bracketology and stuff I think they're
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still going to be projected in the
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tournament but the next I really look at
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these next five games is being like
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critical for Nebraska you've got ruter
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at home Maryland on the road USC at home
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um at Wisconsin and at Illinois and it's
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like man you're two and three in the Big
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10 right now like you got to find a way
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to to win probably three of those five
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just to get to five and five because I
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still think this team has to win
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probably 11 games to make the tournament
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at least 10 at least 10 games and uh you
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know if
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you lay another egg here man like it's
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it's going to be tough so these next
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three games they've got to get at least
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to out the next three you've got Ruckers
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at home Maryland on the road us I mean
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those are all three winnable but like
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you have to win those two games at home
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or this team's going to be in real
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trouble and missing the NCA tournament
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and that Maryland game is going to be
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tough too and Maryland gave them a
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challenge last season so um it's not
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it's not going to be an easy stretch
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here and this is going to be a real test
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to see where this team is at I thought
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they were better than what they've shown
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lately maybe it's just a slump we we saw
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that last year a little bit but um right
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now is about the time to be getting into
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a slump so we'll see what happens but it
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seems like you know Michigan Michigan
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State you know Purdue like those games
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in particular are games that have kind
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of made me wonder about this team and
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you know like like we kind of alluded to
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all the bad things that this team
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struggles with came out on Sunday and
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hopefully they can kind of you know kind
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of you know regroup and get their get
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their act together before it's too
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late yeah they gota they got to figure
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some things out def I'm just not sure if
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the guys are just like being over
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aggressive with with their helping and
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their hedging but like they've got to
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make some adjustments especially with
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their ball screen defense I mean it has
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just been terrible it's either been you
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know like wide open three or layup
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almost every time so um mean you look at
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the schedule February I don't know looks
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a little bit easier but you start off so
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after those the five games I just talked
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about then you've got your your West
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Coast road trip to Oregon who's really
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good and Washington which they're okay
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but I mean that's a game that's probably
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like a must-win game for Nebraska to
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make the tournament then you've got Ohio
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State and Maryland at home Northwestern
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and Purdue or Penn State on the road and
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then home against Michigan so you know
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definitely some winnable games in
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February but it's not there's not a lot
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of winable games on the schedule so
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really you know every everyone is
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important and uh you can't you just
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can't lay eggs like that that that's why
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you know looking back at that Iowa game
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you know you're up by 15 points and you
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have a chance for a quad one win that's
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why you have to win that game because
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that Purdue game was always going to be
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tough to win right I mean so like you
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needed to find a way to win one of those
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two and you it sitting right there and
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then the defense I mean was the same
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thing against Iowa I mean guys were just
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getting wide open threes you know pton
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San for had some wide open threes and
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it's like that's the one guy in the Big
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10 you don't leave wide open and that's
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I could say the same thing about a lot
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of produced guys so that part's been
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frustrating and I think this team you
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know is going to have to look it look
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itself in the mirror a little bit before
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ruter comes to town and hopefully you
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know being back in the vault will kind
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of get them going but they got to find
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that they got to find that edge that
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they against UCLA because they just they
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had it for half about half the game
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against Iowa and then I don't know what
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happened to it but they have not I don't
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know yeah I was mistified by that but um
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I mean 104 points is is bad4 points is
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bad they they scored what like 50 in the
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half or close to 50 in the half um 59 in
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the second half so I admittedly turned
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it off you know halfway through the
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second half but but I had to St I
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started writing stuff I was like okay
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well nothing's going to change here in
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these last eight minutes but you know
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like you said February is going to be a
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crucial stretch for Nebraska and you
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don't really want to go into February
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with must-win games you want to go into
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February kind of you know already
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comfortable in the tournament a chance
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to boost your resume and that could
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still be true but now these games of
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February take on a little bit of an
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extra
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meeting all right well let's shift to
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some football talking um I'm trying to
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think back I don't think we've had any
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commitments since we did our last show
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on Thursday but um Nebraska has had some
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roster movement in the positive
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direction and so one of those moves
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Javin Wright um a linebacker who started
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one game in each the past two seasons
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got a seventh year of Eligibility so
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he's going to be coming back for the
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Huskers it also seems very likely that
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DeShaun Singleton will be coming back
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there's that whole Jo um Junior College
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ruling so he started his career as a Joo
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um that hasn't been announced yet but
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sounds like according to Sean Callahan
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and other reports it's just kind of you
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know dotting the eyes crossing the teas
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so if those guys do both come back and
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starting with Javin Wright because we
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know he's coming back after that's been
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announced what what's the impact there
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in the linebacker room and and how
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excited are you for his return a lot of
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people don't want you know old faces to
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return I'm in that boat but Javin right
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is a guy that I want back I mean when
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you talk about the linebacker room and
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how much young Talent there is you know
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this gives them an opportunity to
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develop because now you have veterans in
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desan Malla you know Javin Wright Maris
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Watson Trent you know guys that can kind
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of make an impact in a sizable impact
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while the younger guys develop and so
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Javin Wright coming back is it's it's
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huge and you know I I think even though
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we have a crowded safety room with
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younger players having Singleton come
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back is also big uh Singleton has been
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around the program obviously he's been
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able to play at a high level and healthy
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and you know again this gives more depth
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for the safety and linebacker room and a
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chance for the younger players to grow
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uh and I do understand the sentiment
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that people don't want you know the same
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players back but I I think in this case
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having these two back is important for a
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young defensive unit yeah jabin wght is
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interesting to me because you'll
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remember or maybe some won't but he
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started off as he played in that nickel
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role that safety you know hybrid role
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which is kind of interesting for a guy
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who's 65 230 lbs so to me it's like I
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know our linebacker room is not crowded
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but you know pretty deep already but you
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know he to me is a guy that can be that
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nickel linebacker and you know you can
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always use players like that and uh he
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started two games over the last couple
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years but he's played more than that he
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was hurt some last year and I just feel
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like he's going to be a solid guy that
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can contribute and allow some of these
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other guys you know Mulla and um you
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know Dawson Meritt maybe that can allow
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them to you know rush the passer a
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little bit more instead of focusing on
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coverage a little bit so to me it's just
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another um you know another tool in the
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toolkit for John Butler and another
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really solid player and then looking at
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Singleton on the back end to me you know
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he would be you know immediate starter
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again at safety you know along probably
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with Buford and Malcolm harzog so I
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think that's a huge addition that would
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give Nebraska three kind of proven
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safeties back there and um you know
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because they kind of were trying to add
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you know they added Justin Rhett you
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know he's kind of try to be in the mix
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there but I just think that Singleton
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who's also pretty good in coverage would
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be just a really solid um you know
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addition for this second day and
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probably probably as important as
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anybody they got you know in the
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transfer portal maybe maybe outside of
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Andrew Marshall I think he's going to
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have a pretty big impact but like if you
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consider the four guys they added and
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you throw deshan Singleton in that mix
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like that's a pretty good haul for the
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secondary coming back and when you think
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of and when you think about um Wright
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it's never been a lack of production
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it's always been his health and don't
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forget he had the blood clot issue a
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couple years ago as well so there were
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some serious question questions about
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his health as well so I'm hoping he
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stays healthy and you know can
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contribute the entire season and he's
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been you know unfairly bitten by the
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injury bug so I'm excited to see him him
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return and you know I I highlight him
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because again Health has been the issue
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it's never been about production or
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wanting to play so I'm hoping he can
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make it through next season
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healthy and yeah just you know you need
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um as as many quality experience play
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that you can have on defense as possible
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like I think that that's a good thing
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and you know you look at that secondary
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I mean this the starting lineup could
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potentially be you know Singleton uh
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Buford harzog at safety and then you're
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looking at corner Sayer Wright I think
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Andrew Marshall um you know those five
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guys might be your starting five right
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there with I mean the way Nebraska
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played it last year they kind of had
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that big nickel type defense as they're
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they're kind of as a safety with their
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third um defensive back or their
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defensive back I should say yeah but
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then also you know Jamir Khan in the mix
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um so you know I like where they're at
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in the secondary I think they've got a
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lot of interesting pieces and youve got
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some young guys there you know Mario
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Buford marari Sanders cayb Benning
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Donovan Jones all kind of in the mix
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Jeremiah Charles so Larry Tarver I think
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too right yeah Larry Tarver I mean so it
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went from being you know we a couple
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years ago seemed a little light and now
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I feel like they're right where they
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need to be in terms of you know
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experience Talent they've got a lot of
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nice pieces there so um at any rate
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let's shift now to the transfer portal
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and things have kind of slowed down a
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little bit for Nebraska after um they
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picked up Elijah pritchet last week the
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tackle from Alabama um they've also
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picked up some other guy some other
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Defenders too Marcus um Groves kbu um
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from Arizona which was I thought was
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another nice pickup yeah so I mean yeah
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Three Corner they've added three corners
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and I like them all so I like all those
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guys and I know some people are down on
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on gr KW because he's played at multiple
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places but like he started games for
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Arizona last year I mean a lot of the
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time he was their number three Corner
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because they had a freshman come in that
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was really good but but still I mean you
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got a guy who's played you know hundreds
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of snaps for a power four program like
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that's that's nothing to scoff at
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especially a guy who was ranked in the
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top like 150 coming out of high school
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and honestly who cares who gives a crap
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as long as he doesn't cause issues with
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his teammates and is respectful to the
15:25
coaches and you know doesn't cause a
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scene or whatever who cares I don't care
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if he's transferred to seven schools if
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he's a good player and he can contribute
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positively to the program I'm I'm happy
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to have him in I know a lot of fans were
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kind of down oh you're transed so much
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who cares welcome to the new age of
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college football just don't be a problem
15:41
and you know be respectful to the
15:43
coaching staff and you know I don't see
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an issue I really don't yeah I'm not
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worried about it either and it's not
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like yeah I mean yeah he could be he
15:52
could be another he could be another
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Sayer right type I mean he's got that
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type of talent um so I'll take another
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Sayer right type yeah
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yeah I feel like the ceiling is is
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pretty high with him and I feel like the
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floor is pretty low because I mean if
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the floor is what he did at Arizona last
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year like that will be that will that
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will play just fine in the Nebraska
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secondary so I'm I'm I don't understand
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the uh the negativity towards that
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addition but it is what it is um there
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is one one other player that we've kind
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of been talking about shaaz Pete um from
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New Mexico State my guy um that I've
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been all over 68 320 pounds ranked
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number 11th in the portal he's still
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kind of in it with Nebraska he made
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visits but it seems like Sean Kahan
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saying he's kind of trending towards
16:35
Kentucky so that might be a guy coming
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off the board um I know Nebraska already
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got their left tackle so that's probably
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he probably wants to play left tackle
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too and then uh I don't know if Elijah
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pritchet would want to play right tackle
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because the money positions left tackle
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so I mean that's another thing that you
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have to you know warn about is all these
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guys have agents now if you haven't
16:54
noticed this if you don't follow it that
16:55
well all these players who go into the
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transfer portal have agents and their
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agents are looking at like what position
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is best to play to get to the NFL or how
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does this team project to get you to the
17:05
NFL and so it's not going to surprise me
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if they miss on on Pete I do like their
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tackle room I mean I think that that
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would I mean it's gonna be interesting
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what are they going to do with Gula are
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they going to put pritchet at left
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tackle and move Gula to the right side
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is Grant bricks GNA get in the mix um so
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still some questions kind of lingering
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out there but I still feel better about
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the tackle room with um you know it then
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without him so I I wish they could get
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Pete too but that might be that might
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just be too tough of an ass to uh you
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know have one of those guys play right
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tackle so I don't know we'll see what
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happens and Jona Wilson the wide
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receiver from Houston is another guy
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that was projected towards Nebraska over
17:43
this past week and another wide receiver
17:45
room I mean it was kind of funny because
17:47
you posted on how big red Dana hogerson
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clearly didn't like what he saw with
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this group of wide receivers on the
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roster because you know they're
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recruiting tall body types they're
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recruiting physical wide receivers you
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know you you're see you're seeing you
18:02
know that kind of NFL type of wide
18:05
receiver the six foot2 you know physical
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playmaker who can make things happen
18:10
after the catch so it's very clear that
18:13
that tequil shortz and and hogerson want
18:16
a particular wide receiver mold they
18:18
know what they want they're going after
18:20
it and uh I'll I'll be interesting to
18:22
see where Jonah Wilson fits in the room
18:25
because we have a lot of receivers right
18:27
now yeah we do and on Jonah Wilson this
18:29
is from Sean Callahan but it sounds like
18:32
so this is kind of weird but he says
18:33
that he's going to be joining the team
18:34
as a walk- on in January since the
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scholarship limit still constrains
18:38
Nebraska until July 1st which I don't
18:40
really understand that part of it but um
18:42
so that's why there hasn't been a formal
18:44
announcement about his addition so I
18:46
mean from the way Sean Callahan's
18:48
telling it he's already committed to
18:49
Nebraska that being Jonah Wilson um so
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if that's true I mean that gives you
18:53
four guys what I really like about these
18:56
guys you got danne key obviously who's
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got one year to go and you needed to
19:00
bring in somebody like that but nah
19:02
Hunter Hardley Gilmore and Jonah Wilson
19:04
all have three years to play and so you
19:07
look at that with Jak cor and you add
19:08
Jak Cori Barney to that mix Carter
19:10
Nelson those five guys all have three
19:13
years to play and then you add in Cortez
19:14
Mills who's a true freshman and this
19:17
wide receiver room has a lot of room
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yeah mosy too yeah OB yeah mosy um so
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this receiver room has a lot of uh a lot
19:25
of room to grow seven really good
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players I think you know Nelson I will
19:29
probably be a tight end but still I mean
19:31
a lot of pass catchers with you know
19:33
time to grow with Dylan Rola over these
19:35
next two seasons yeah a lot of weapons
19:38
for the quarterback a lot of big-time
19:39
Playmakers uh you know and it's just
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quite a difference from the wide
19:45
receiver room like say three years ago
19:48
or even even four years ago um and I
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think it's Testament to how hard this
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coaching staff has worked in recruiting
19:54
and they're Landing Big Time Playmakers
19:56
now it's about continuing to build and
19:58
put wins and I think this is going to be
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a big year for Rola as well as this
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group of white
20:04
outs do you think there's any other
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positions that Nebraska is going to
20:08
Target in the portal um you know here
20:11
coming up I mean they I feel like
20:12
they're pretty close to that their limit
20:14
but it sounds like they could maybe add
20:16
you know two or three guys if they could
20:18
if they could really um you know bring
20:20
something to the team I guess so if
20:22
there's any other positions out there
20:23
that need to be addressed what do you
20:25
think they are if any maybe one more
20:27
Veteran running back I know people are
20:29
stressing about the running back
20:30
position but quite
20:32
honestly I would be willing to kind of
20:35
you know see what Conor booth and Parker
20:37
can do I know I know Booth is a little
20:39
banged up right now but you know
20:41
hopefully his injury will you know
20:43
obviously be be taken care of by the
20:45
season but you know I would be okay with
20:49
I know they're freshman but you know
20:51
letting booth and Parker have have
20:54
playing time and then you have you know
20:56
uh emit Johnson you know Quinton IES
20:59
mecky Nelson so I know people are
21:02
stressing about running back I don't
21:03
really see it as a major issue but maybe
21:05
one more veteran guy would be would be
21:07
good and maybe they um you know because
21:10
they haven't they haven't offered a
21:12
running back they haven't hosted a
21:13
running back they haven't really even
21:14
contacted a running back that I've seen
21:16
so it makes me think maybe they're just
21:19
going to go through Spring ball and see
21:21
how things are and maybe maybe that's a
21:23
position they don't need to address um I
21:26
guess we'll see you know it does it's
21:28
not like there's anybody in the portal
21:29
right now I mean there's a there's a few
21:30
guys um but I just haven't checked on
21:32
the running backs very much so I don't
21:33
even know if like they're still in there
21:35
like Wisconsin had a back that one in
21:36
the portal um but yeah I mean I I think
21:39
EMT Johnson is is
21:41
definitely that guy I think he's he's
21:44
going to be the number one guy and um I
21:45
think there's some interesting pieces
21:47
behind him and yeah hopefully that that
21:48
might be a question that kind of gets
21:50
pushed to the spring at this point um
21:52
and if you need one you have the spring
21:53
portal window so I'd still uh I'd still
21:57
like to see him add a a big defensive
21:59
tackle but I'm starting to feel like
22:02
maybe that's not going to happen so no
22:05
um I I kind of got the same read on it
22:06
too but you know I think I think we'll
22:10
have to see how these pieces fit
22:12
together I mean I think this defense is
22:14
going to look a little bit different
22:16
than last year's I think it honestly has
22:18
a chance to be better than last year's
22:20
but we'll see how all the pieces fit but
22:22
I think overall they've done a really
22:23
really nice job in the transfer portal I
22:25
know Matt rule has been about
22:26
development and you know recruiting
22:28
players at high school and you know
22:29
developing him but he's since changed
22:32
his approach to fit the modern quote
22:34
unquote game of college football and I
22:35
think it's worked yeah I'll be to see
22:38
where they line up all the guys up front
22:41
but I'm guessing that van papa will be
22:43
the the you know the nose type it right
22:45
now um and then you got K Davis and then
22:48
Williams Noy um Elijah Judy also will be
22:52
in the mix there um is one of those guys
22:54
that will play kind of on the interior I
22:56
mean no's a guy that I think will rush
22:58
the passer but he's probably going to be
23:00
some of that maybe five technique too or
23:02
I don't know it's just I'm really
23:03
interested to see how they how they do
23:04
that maybe they go with a maybe they
23:06
played more fourman fronts and um you
23:09
know that's something that I think would
23:11
fit Nebraska's Personnel pretty well
23:14
yeah and you know I think I think when
23:16
you look at you know the front you just
23:18
mentioned no Judy you know Kiona Davis
23:21
Van Poppel that's not a bad front at all
23:24
I I would be happy you know putting out
23:26
that front you know in game so we'll see
23:28
what happens but um I trust John Butler
23:30
to find the right combination and um you
23:33
know I think this defense has a chance
23:34
to be really aggressive and you know
23:37
really let the younger players shine as
23:39
well I think you're going to see a lot
23:40
of younger players make an impact this
23:43
year yeah I think
23:46
um I think if you look at it for a
23:49
fourman front that that fourman front
23:51
actually sounds pretty good you know
23:52
with uh Judy and Van Papo playing The
23:55
Tackle roles I think ke Davis could be a
23:56
big defensive end you know sort of like
23:58
yeah and Doman Su was I I'm just like
24:01
you know he can be that type of player
24:03
where you can be like in my opinion he
24:05
could be a rundown guy on the outside
24:08
set the edge and then push him inside to
24:09
rush the passer on third Downs or
24:11
whatever so yeah it's it's just going to
24:13
be I just don't think we're going to see
24:15
as much 335 as we did last year and
24:17
that's not a bad thing at all no I don't
24:19
think that's a bad thing at all either
24:20
and um I think it probably suits the
24:23
athletes that we have a little bit
24:24
better to not run a 335 but uh we'll see
24:28
what happens and I'm really really
24:30
interested to see how that secondary
24:31
room shakes out and we mentioned the
24:33
depth and uh we mentioned you know the
24:36
playmakers that they were able to get at
24:38
the position and then I'm really
24:39
interested to see how you know it kind
24:41
of that that position battle kind of
24:43
shapes up through the course of the
24:45
spring and then fall
24:46
Camp yeah it'll be interesting to see
24:48
how that all uh kind of plays out but um
24:51
the roster is coming together so we'll
24:53
wrap it up there you guys um I'm sure
24:55
we'll be back for another episode I'm
24:56
thinking on Thursday and we'll kind of
24:58
wrap up what's been happening um look
24:59
ahead to the next Nebraska basketball
25:01
game which is rers on Thursday so that's
25:03
going to be a really important game for
25:04
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25:06
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